Description & Requirements

who we are

lululemon is an innovative performance apparel company for yoga, running, training, and other athletic pursuits. Setting the bar in technical fabrics and functional design, we create transformational products and experiences that support people in moving, growing, connecting, and being well. We owe our success to our innovative product, emphasis on stores, commitment to our people, and the incredible connections we make in every community we're in. As a company, we focus on creating positive change to build a healthier, thriving future. In particular, that includes creating an equitable, inclusive and growth-focused environment for our people.




About this team/role

A core pillar of lululemon's technology Strategy is to provide strong and scalable foundations. Leveraging cloud, we create and manage platforms servicing our internal stakeholders with a customer-first mindset. We enable and empower teams to become self-sufficient, while providing guardrails to protect the organization.

The Cloud Platform Technology Manager leads the organization through the cloud transformation journey. In this role you will be establish and evangelize a center for enablement to support our work in multi-cloud environment (AWS and Azure), with a focus on improving engineering productivity. The role includes building and operating a central platform, leveraging modern practices, and tooling allowing the fast adoption and usage of cloud technologies in a federated model, focusing on self-service, frictionless engagement, and speed to market.




Key Responsibilities

• Core leader for cloud platform infrastructure services to enable application developers to onboard and manage applications within cloud with ease, while ensuring guardrails are in place for meeting security policies, cost efficiencies, and resilience.
• Responsible for the vision, strategy, roadmap and engineering and adoption of cloud platform services.
• Builds and manages a high-performance team of 12-15 global team members (architects, engineers, product managers and analysts.) Inspires and motivates the team to grow and achieve personal and collective team goals.
• Establish relationships with cross functional peers to drive prioritization of cloud initiatives and requirements.
• Promote best practices and technologies, spanning cloud org/account management strategies, VPC/Network connectivity, compute management, IAM, cloud security across diverse delivery teams and applications.
• Drive initiatives to ensure teams are complying with policies (security, data handling, PCI, accessibility, service level agreements.)
• Builds strong partnerships with key vendors, especially AWS and Azure. Capture incremental value that vendors can help source, such as innovation activities, proofs of concept, training.
• Manage and optimize cloud spend for the organization.

Required Skills & Experience

Basic Requirements:

• 5+ years cloud infrastructure technical delivery experience (AWS and Azure)
• 2+ years building and managing technology teams.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and coach team members and motivate for continuous improvement.
• Expertise in championing modern ways-of-working such as Agile, Product management, DevOps, cloud architect and related practices. Experience in establishing standards and best practices for local team and community.
• Keen interest in research and maintaining knowledge on latest technologies, technical practices, industry news and challenges for Enterprise Cloud Platform capabilities and practices.
• Proven ability to influence change to improve business performance and productivity
• Ability to adapt delivery to meet critical business and technology domain needs
• Strong verbal & written communications skills
• Demonstrated leadership to drive efforts to maximize value of enterprise cloud platforms.

Technical Requirements:

• Deep knowledge of AWS and Azure cloud foundation principles and design, cloud security and compliance, cloud networking and pipelines
• Collaboration. Able to work closely with diverse stakeholders and enable them by providing scalable, resilient, and secure cloud platform
• Expertise in agile practices such as scrum, SAFe and Kanban
• Expertise in site reliability, operations, service level management, incident response, root cause analysis, problem management
• Able to promote DevOps practices and tooling such as CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, pipeline automation, Jenkins, GitHub
• Expertise with Control Tower, Step Functions, CloudFormation, SSM, Service Catalogs, Config, Code Pipeline, Lambda, API Gateway and other services on AWS
• Expertise with Subscription management, Logic Apps, Resource Manager, Automation, Azure Active Directory, Developer tools for Azure
• Excellent understanding of security practices for Cloud like KMS, Secrets Manager, encryption and IAM Roles, Azure Policy, Azure Security Center, Azure AD + Conditional Access, implementing Azure RBAC and Azure Privileged Identity Management (PIM + JIT)
• System observability and tracing using tools like - CloudWatch and Prometheus

must haves

• Acknowledge the presence of choice in every moment and take personal responsibility for your life.
• Possess an entrepreneurial spirit and continuously innovate to achieve great results.
• Communicate with honesty and kindness and create the space for others to do the same.
• Lead with courage, knowing the possibility of greatness is bigger than the fear of failure.
• Foster connection by putting people first and building trusting relationships.
• Integrate fun and joy as a way of being and working, aka doesn't take yourself too seriously.

Additional Notes
Immigration support is potentially available for this role.

Compensation and Benefits Package

lululemon's compensation offerings are grounded in a pay-for-performance philosophy that recognizes exceptional individual and teamperformance. Thetypical hiring range for this position is from$145,700 - $191,200 annually; the base pay offered is based on market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and internal equity. As part of our total rewards offering, permanent employees in this position may be eligible for our competitive annual bonus program, subject to program eligibility requirements.

At lululemon, investing in our people is a top priority. We believe that when life works, work works. We strive to be the place where inclusive leaders come to develop and enable all to be well. Recognizing our teams for their performance and dedication, other components of our total rewards offerings include support of career development, wellbeing, and personal growth:

• Extended health and dental benefits, and mental health plans
• Paid time off
• Savings and retirement plan matching
• Generous employee discount
• Fitness & yoga classes
• Parenthood top-up
• Extensive catalog of development course offerings
• People networks, mentorship programs, and leadership series (to name a few)

Note: The incentive programs, benefits, and perks have certain eligibility requirements. The Company reserves the right to alter these incentive programs, benefits, and perks in whole or in part at any time without advance notice.

workplace arrangement

This role is classified as Hybrid under our SSC Workplace Policy:

Hybrid

In-person collaboration is important, and much of the role can be performed remotely. Work is performed onsite at least 3 days per week.

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