lululemon Senior Technology Manager - Enterprise Cloud Platforms

lululemon; Vancouver; Hybrid; CAD 158,000 - 209,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading performance apparel company in Vancouver is seeking a Senior Technology Manager to lead their cloud transformation. The ideal candidate will have over 7 years in cloud infrastructure and experience in managing technology teams. Responsibilities include setting the vision for enterprise cloud platforms, mentoring a high-performing team, and developing roadmaps for multi-cloud adoption. This role promotes innovation in a supportive environment, offering a hybrid workplace arrangement and comprehensive benefits package.

Benefits

Health and dental benefits

Paid time off

Savings and retirement plan matching

Generous employee discount

Fitness and yoga classes

Qualifications

• 7+ years cloud infrastructure technology experience.
• 5+ years building and managing technology teams.
• Proven ability to mentor and coach team members.
• Expertise in Agile methodologies, DevOps, and cloud architecture.
• Ability to adapt delivery to meet business needs.

Responsibilities

• Set the vision and strategy for cloud platforms.
• Engage with stakeholders to align platform requirements.
• Develop roadmaps for multi-cloud adoption.
• Lead and mentor a high-performing engineering team.
• Drive technology decisions through analysis and evaluations.
• Champion best practices in Kubernetes operations.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure technology experience

Building and managing technology teams

Mentoring and coaching skills

Agile practices and Product management

Strong communication skills

Tools

AWS

Azure

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitLab

Job description

Description & Requirements

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

The Senior Technology Manager - Enterprise Cloud Platforms will be a leader in lululemon's cloud transformation journey and shape the future of our platform ecosystem. This role is responsible for defining and evangelizing enterprise-level platforms that enhance engineering productivity in a multi-cloud environment (primarily AWS and Azure). You will oversee the design, build, and operation of foundational services—such as container orchestration, secrets management, and developer enablement—using modern practices and tooling to accelerate cloud adoption in a federated model. As a strategic leader, you will champion self‑service capabilities, frictionless engagement, and speed to market, enabling teams to innovate confidently while maintaining security and compliance. This position requires a visionary mindset, strong technical acumen, and the ability to influence across multiple domains.

Core responsibilities

• Set the vision and strategy for enterprise cloud platforms, ensuring Kubernetes and related services deliver secure, scalable foundations for the organization.
• Engage with stakeholders across engineering, architecture, and product teams to understand platform requirements, prioritize features, and align on timelines.
• Develop and refine roadmaps for multi-cloud adoption (AWS and Azure), container orchestration, and developer enablement services.
• Lead and mentor a high-performing team of engineers, architects, and product managers—fostering growth, collaboration, and technical excellence.
• Drive technology decisions through Build vs. Buy analysis, vendor evaluations, and RFP processes for platform services.
• Champion best practices in Kubernetes operations, CI/CD pipelines, observability, security, IAM, and cost optimization across federated teams.
• Facilitate cross-team alignment through collaborative forums, workshops, and technical reviews—removing friction and accelerating adoption.
• Oversee operational excellence, including incident management, performance tuning, and continuous improvement of platform reliability.
• Manage budgets and vendor relationships, ensuring cost efficiency and value delivery for managed services and tooling.
• Influence organizational change, promoting self-service capabilities and a culture of speed‑to‑market while maintaining compliance and governance.

Qualifications

Basic Requirements

• 7+ years cloud infrastructure technology experience.
• 5+ 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 and Containerization capabilities and practices.
• Proven ability to challenge the status quo and drive changes 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 evangelize and drive efforts to maximize value of enterprise cloud platforms.

Technical Requirements

• Hands on architecture and design experience—must have the ability to architect and scale the platform services used by hundreds of engineers.
• Demonstrated technical decision making in complex systems. Must have a track record of driving platform adoption through developer experience and technical enablement.
• Experience contributing to or leading open-source projects in the Cloud Native ecosystems.
• Deep Kubernetes or CNCF contributions.
• Deep experience on CNCF ecosystem like Helm, Envoy, Linkerd, Istio, Harbor, CoreDNS.
• DevOps practices and tooling such as CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code—Terraform and Rancher, pipeline automation—GitLab and ArgoCD.
• Deep knowledge of AWS and Azure cloud, cloud security, cloud networking and pipelines.
• Agile practices and Jira software experience.
• Collaboration and ability to work closely with diverse stakeholders and enable them by providing scalable, resilient, and secure cloud platform.
• System observability and tracing using tools like Prometheus, Datadog, Splunk.

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

Authorization to work in Canada is required for this role.

Compensation and benefits package

lululemon's compensation offerings are grounded in a pay-for-performance philosophy that recognizes exceptional individual and team performance. The typical hiring range for this position is from $158,900 - 208,500 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

Hybrid

In-person collaboration and connection is important to our culture. Work is performed onsite, minimum 4 days per week.