Technology Director - Developer Excellence

About the role

As the Director of Enterprise Engineering - Practices and Platforms, your role is pivotal in aligning the engineering direction across all technology departments, spanning Digital, Retail, Infrastructure, Product, and Supply Chain. You will craft and execute a visionary strategy and roadmap for engineering standards that ensure the secure, reliable, and consistent development of technology, provide engineering insights, and develop core developer platforms.

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 CI/CD 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 check in code within 1 day.
  • Reduce build and deploy times by a measurable percentage.
  • 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.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of related work experience, with direct work experience across a variety of Engineering disciplines, including creating and managing communities of practice in large technology organizations (1k+ people).
• 5+ years in 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.

Pay

The typical hiring range for this position is from $190,400 – $249,900 annually; the base pay offered is based on market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and internal equity. Permanent employees in this position may be eligible for our competitive annual bonus program and equity offerings, subject to program eligibility requirements.

Benefits

• 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

Schedule

Work is performed onsite, minimum 4 days per week.