Technology Director - Developer Excellence

Lululemon Athletica; Washington; Hybrid; USD 190,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

lululemon is seeking a Technology Director to lead Developer Excellence and shape engineering practices across the organization. You will partner with global teams to raise velocity, quality, and reliability while guiding the adoption of standards and enterprise platforms.

In this role you will own strategic platforms (CI/CD, Observability), mentor senior engineers, and drive an inclusive culture aligned with our IDEA commitments. A hands-on leader is essential.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of engineering experience across multiple disciplines.
• 5+ years in a senior leadership role equivalent to Technology Director.
• Champion modern practices such as Agile, DevOps and related methodologies.
• Strong communication and storytelling to articulate a vision to diverse audiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead Technology Practices with maturity guidelines and enterprise resources.
• Own strategic platforms (CI/CD, Observability) to accelerate maturity and value.
• Deliver and maintain core engineering tools, environments and IDPs.
• Guide engineering leadership and foster an inclusive, high-performance culture.

Skills

Leadership

Agile

DevOps

Communication

Job description

Technology Director - Developer Excellence

Business Unit: Store Support Centre (SSC)

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 Technology Foundations team is a key part of the overall Technology team at lululemon. This team creates a uniquely lululemon, truly differentiated and elevate experiences and the associated enterprise services to streamline technology delivery for our technologists. The Technology Foundations team is focused on strategy and outcomes related to technology platforms, shared services, and engineering experiences.

core responsibilities

Global Practices Program:

• Lead the Technology Practices, providing maturity guidelines and resources that empower teams throughout the enterprise.
• Strengthen the program that establishes and adopts engineering standards, ensuring scalability and future-proofing to accommodate business growth.
• Measure and improve engineering velocity, quality, and satisfaction.
• Build productivity dashboards across engineering teams.
• Establish industry standard metrics such as DORA and SPACE to capture the technical aspects of software development and the human and social factors that influence team performance
• Influence yearly financial investment decisions by shaping and enhancing these practices and standards

Strategic Developers’ Platform Ownership:

• Take ownership and operate strategic technical platforms, such as CICD and Observability, with the aim of accelerating organizational maturity and business value.
• Deliver and maintain core engineering tools, environments, and internal developer platforms (IDPs).
• Provide Seamless onboarding for new developers with a goal of being able to checkin code within 1 day.
• Reduction in build and deploy times by X%.
• Utilize these platforms to drive secure and reliable technology development, supporting the sustained growth of lululemon commerce.

Engineering Leadership:

• Influence and guide Principal Engineering leadership through technical thought leadership, strategic partnership, investment alignment, and community building.
• Demonstrate a strong leadership style that inspires, motivates, delegates, and coaches teams to achieve high performance and passion for their products and services.
• Proactively build trusting relationships across the organization, including functional partners and global teams.
• Foster a culture of inclusion, diversity, and equity in alignment with the organization’s IDEA commitment

Your leadership will be instrumental in driving technological excellence, fostering collaboration, and ensuring the sustained success and growth of lululemon's global engineering endeavors.

qualifications

• 10+ years of related work experience, with direct work experience across a variety of Engineering disciplines, including creating and managing community of practices in large technology organizations (1k+ people).
• 5+ years is a senior leadership position like Technology Director, or relevant management experience.
• Role model and champion modern ways-of-working such as Agile, DevOps and related practices, actively participate in an architecture community.
• Strong communication and “storytelling” skills – ability to articulate a vision or concept in simple terms to a broad audience at every level.

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

Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time 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$190,400 - $249,900annually; 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 and equity offerings, 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
• 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.

Only those applicants under consideration will be contacted. Please accept our utmost appreciation for your interest. Lululemon is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Employment decisions are based on merit and business needs, and not on race, color, creed, age, sex, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, religion, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, military service, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions or any other classification protected by federal, state or provincial and local laws and ordinances. Reasonable accommodation is available for qualified individuals with disabilities, upon request. This Equal Employment Opportunity policy applies to all practices relating to recruitment and hiring, compensation, benefits, discipline, transfer, termination and all other terms and conditions of employment. While management is primarily responsible for seeing that Lululemon equal employment opportunity policies are implemented, you share in the responsibility for assuring that, by your personal actions, the policies are effective.

lululemon is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities. If you would like someone from our team to contact you for individualized support, email us [e-mail] . In your email, please include the position title, the location of the position and the nature of your request.

The use of AI tools, including but not limited to ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Gemini, DeepSeek, or any other AI-assisted software, is strictly prohibited during the interview process. This includes, AI-generated responses, content creation, or any form of automated assistance in live interviews, case studies, technical assessments, or written submissions.

At lululemon, we are committed to privacy, integrity, transparency, and ethical hiring practices. Our commitment to responsible AI ensures that proprietary information is protected and that all hiring decisions are based on an individual’s own skills, judgment, and expertise without AI assistance. Any use of AI during the interview process will result in immediate disqualification. lululemon reserves the right to use AI detection tools to verify the authenticity of candidate responses.