Who we are
lululemon is a yoga-inspired technical apparel company up to big things. The practice and philosophy of yoga informs our overall purpose to elevate the world by realizing the full potential within every one of us. We are proud to be a growing global company with locations all around the world, from Vancouver to Shanghai, and places in between. We owe our success to our innovative product, our emphasis on our stores, our commitment to our people, and the incredible connections we get to make in every community we are in.
About this team
Product Systems team supports lululemon’s commitment to elevate our guests' experience through the strategic delivery of reliable and sustainable solutions from Product concept to Finished goods production.
Come join an excited and talented engineering team who is leading the transformation of Lululemon Product technology. This is a team which is in process of its transformation from a traditional monolith architecture to cloud based service architecture. As a Solution Architect, you will work with technology and solution leaders from our Sourcing & Quality domains, defining the roadmap and developing solution, logical & physical architecture plans to initiate enterprise-grade solutions across the organization. Serve as a primary Subject Matter Expert (SME) as well as provide through leadership and incorporate best practices in Services-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Microservices design and implementation.
A day in the life
- Leads the business/functional architecture and strategy for solutions in a manner consistent with lululemon Technology’s enterprise architecture, applying common frameworks and re-usable components
- Helps ensure the operational platforms and associated interfacing data and systems have been properly architected from and end-to-end perspective to meet the functional and non-functional needs of the business
- Brings conceptual design down to a level of detail that can be physically implemented
- Works closely with domain architects and development teams to support and guide solution implementations and acts as an advisor for technical resources
- Implement certain backlog items through evaluation of technical feasibility, writes and verifies code, perform unit testing and deliver the product
- Develops and maintain current and future-state architecture models
- Stays abreast of industry best practices, technologies, architectures, trends, emerging technologies and develop Proof-Of-Concept to validate idea
- Mentor project delivery teams on adopting to DevOps model, new ideas/technologies
- Drive common vision, practices and capabilities across teams
Qualifications
- Computer Science or related degree
- 5+ year experience designing solutions in Retail domain
- Strong understanding of microservice architecture & knowledge of challenges related to building cloud-native apps
- Expert in design and development of Spring, Spring Boot and Spring Cloud applications
- Expert in design and development of RESTful APIs using JAX-RS and JSON
- Experience in transforming a legacy monolithic application to a microservice based application Experience with event-based and message-driven distributed systems
- Experience working with containers, Docker, Kubernetes or other container schedulers
- Knowledge of Amazon ECS or other cloud container services
- Experience using IaaS, PaaS from Amazon AWS
- Understanding of security using SSL protocols and data encryption
- Experience using Git and GitLab
- Strong understanding of DevOps, CI/CD (Jenkins)
- Good understanding of one other programming language like JavaScript (Node.JS) is a plus
Must Haves
- Acknowledges the presence of choice in every moment and takes personal responsibility for their life.
- Possesses an entrepreneurial spirit and continuously innovates to achieve great results.
- Communicates with honesty and kindness, and creates the space for others to do the same.
- Leads with courage, knowing the possibility of greatness is bigger than the fear of failure.
- Fosters connection by putting people first and building trusting relationships.
- Integrates fun and joy as a way of being and working, aka doesn’t take themselves too seriously
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