Senior Data & AI Platform Engineer

lululemon; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 133,000 - 174,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Extended health

Dental benefits

Paid time off

Retirement plan matching

Parental top-up

Career development

Mentorship

Wellbeing programs

Job summary

lululemon Athletica Inc. in Canada is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Data and AI Platforms to join the Enterprise Data & AI team.

You will design and build data systems and AI-enabled capabilities across product teams, shaping enterprise data foundations and scalable solutions. The role requires 6–10 years of software development experience, a strong record of coding quality, and the ability to drive architectural decisions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical field; Master’s degree beneficial, or equivalent experience
• 6-10 years of software development experience, building complex systems and driving technical initiatives across teams, or equivalent
• Proven track record of writing exemplary code that serves as a technical reference; experience establishing coding standards and quality practices adopted across a domain
• Demonstrated ability to decompose highly complex problems including algorithmic challenges into scalable solutions; deep understanding of system-wide implications of technical decisions across multiple services
• Experience designing integration solutions for complex domain areas; track record of driving integration implementation decisions across teams within architectural standards
• Experience building knowledge bases in retail or similar domains
• Familiarity with search, recommender and RAG/GraphRAG hybrid retrieval architectures
• Experience defining enterprise semantic layers used across multiple product teams
• Exposure to AI-Driven systems – optimization, predictions and Agents
• Experience working with knowledge representation for LLM-powered applications

Responsibilities

• The role will design and build data systems, AI-enabled platform capabilities, and enterprise solutions across product teams
• Drive architectural patterns and technology choices with broad impact
• Lead code reviews and establish engineering standards and testing strategies
• Mentor engineers and collaborate with product and business stakeholders on technical strategy
• Lead incident response for critical production issues
• Work onsite four days per week at minimum
• Contribute to canonical semantic models and knowledge graphs
• Maintain high-quality context for LLMs and retrieval pipelines

Skills

Software development

System architecture

AI/ML knowledge

Code quality practices

Integration design

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Retrieval pipelines (RAG)

Semantic search

GraphRAG

Job description

lululemon Athletica Inc. in Canada is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Data and AI Platforms to join the Enterprise Data & AI team.

You will design and build data systems and AI-enabled capabilities across product teams, shaping enterprise data foundations and scalable solutions. The role requires 6–10 years of software development experience, a strong record of coding quality, and the ability to drive architectural decisions.