Technology Director - Cloud Platform Engineering
Company: Disability Solutions
Location: Seattle
Posted on: May 3, 2024
Job Description:
Description & RequirementsWho we arelululemon 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 teamThe
Director of Cloud Platform engineering's primary responsibility is
efficiency and governance of the adoption of public cloud
technologies. You develop seamless onboarding processes, provide
scalable shared services, security guardrails and governance
structure with the objective of streamlining and facilitating the
life of over 100 delivery teams.A day in the life: Primary
responsibilities:
- You create the vision, strategy, and lead the implementation of
cloud-based services and frameworks, based on engineering and
architecture needs for compute, data, networking and security,
across all our cloud service providers (AWS, Azure---)
globally.
- You lead and manage multiple product engineering teams and
provide direction for leaders across program management, solution
architecture, engineering, devops, and quality assurance.
- You are a strong people leader, inspiring, motivating,
delegating and coaching teams to be high-performing and passionate
about their products and services.
- You are a great collaborator - you will proactively build
trusting relationships across the organization, including
functional partners and regional teams.
- You help the technology senior leadership team and your
business partners understand the key benefits and impacts as it
relates to Cloud platforms, including secret management, enterprise
Kubernetes, network optimization, cloud assets lifecycle, and
FinOps.
- You partner with technology executives across lululemon to
evangelize cloud technologies, including a cohesive product
strategy, community of practices, hackathons, annual summit, and
upskill session for all technologies employees.
- Above all, you are a continuous innovator, acting with strong
bias towards action and a constant champion for enterprise cloud
needs. As a seasoned people leader, you can expect the following
deliverables: Leadership:
- Develop and nurture relationships with senior leadership and
cross-functional teams across the organization.
- Foster a culture of inclusion, diversity, and equity as per our
organization's IDEA commitment.
- Lead, support, govern and in partnership with delivery teams
during the transition of legacy architecture to modern cloud
centric platforms.
- Cloud first engineering mindset
- Lead multiple multidisciplinary (DevOps) product configuration
and engineering teams.Product roadmap:
- Lead in developing and delivering a comprehensive portfolio of
cloud platforms in partnership with 100+ engineering delivery teams
across our technology division.
- Ensure feedback loops between platform engineering teams and
business technology teams, through community of practices and COE,
leveraging data insights and customer surveys.
- Manage oversight of complex operations processes based on a
combination of vendors, custom solutions, and internal
resources.
- Ensure enterprise cloud budget targets are met, including cost
optimization.
- Collaborate with the security/engineering/operation and
architecture teams on enabling shared critical infrastructure
services globally.
- Drive coordination, consensus, and execution to mitigate cyber
risk issues and emerging threats in such a dynamic
environment.Innovation & Improvements:
- Work with business technology teams to understand needs.
feedback and define new product roadmap.
- Develop clear product KPIs based on key insights and mature
capabilities with a continuous improvement mindset.
- Develop metrics to measure success and ensure ability for
on-going monitoring of post-launch results through analysis and
reporting. Qualifications
- 10+ years of related work experience, with direct work
experience across a variety of Cloud Infrastructure disciplines,
including creating and managing community of practices in large
technology organizations (1,000+ people).
- 8+ years of relevant people management experience.
- Experience working through various Cloud Infrastructure system
architectures (preference for those with specifically AWS/Azure,
Infrastructure as Code/CI/CD, Networking, operating systems) to
influence solution to solve customer problems.
- 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. 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 $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. As
part of our total rewards offering, permanent employees in this
position may be eligible for our competitive annual bonus progra m
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
- 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 This
role is classified as Hybrid under our SSC Workplace Policy: Hybrid
In-person collaboration is important, and much of the role can be
performed remotely. Work is performed onsite at least 3 days per
week. #LI-CT1
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