lululemon India Tech Hub Looking for Tech Program Manager IV at Bgalore Full Time

Who we are

lululemon is a yoga-inspired technical apparel company up to big things. The practice and philosophy of yoga informs our overall purpose to elevate the world through the power of practice. We are proud to be a growing global company with locations all around the world, from Vancouver to Shanghai, and places in between. We owe our success to our innovative product, our emphasis on our stores, our commitment to our people, and the incredible connections we get to make in every community we are in.

Job Summary:

The Global Digital Technology organization is seeking a talented team leader that will oversee development team(s) working to deliver lululemons SEO tools, services, and experiences. In this role you will be responsible for ensuring the success of your team and will proactively identify the most high-value deliverables. By partnering closely with cross functional teams, you will help manage project scope and ensure stakeholder expectations are managed and met. Your experience building production systems in cloud-native and hybrid environments where automation and Infrastructure as Code are guiding principles will enable you to guide teams and partners toward best practices allowing progress to be made quickly and sustainably.

You are an independent manager who is comfortable managing team members with different skill sets from your own and you can communicate expectations clearly to all team members and the business. In addition to strong management skills, you act as a leader for the technical roadmap for your team and you communicate timeline, scope and risks to partners and stakeholders leading the delivery of major initiatives on clear timelines. You identify areas of strategic technical debt, do the cost/benefit analysis for resolving this debt and communicate suggested timelines for prioritizing this to the management team.

Core Accountabilities:

• Lead a team of developers across multiple work streams simultaneously
• Adjust process and timeline to ensure that high quality deliverables are produced
• Ensure your team produces software that is monitorable and maintainable
• Ensure the right skills are being used to solve the right problems across your team
• Guide teams toward best practices and be able to participate in code reviews when needed
• Identify and remove roadblocks to success ? Hire/train/cultivate expertise in SEO, micro-services (python or java), micro
• frontends, and AWS cloud
• Ensure and maintain code quality controls using modern IaC, CI/CD, and testing tool

Required Skills,

Experience:

• 5+ years of experience of technology engineering leadership. Experience must include working on large, enterprise projects to track and manage architecture and engineering resources in a complex and matrixed (5+ engineering teams) engineering delivery organization.
• Deep familiarity with web platform and its technical underpinnings ? Ability to work comfortably across browser and server environments, full stack.
• Comfortable working in complex and large-scale production environments
• Prior experience in the retail and or ecommerce industry (Desired).
• Proven leadership experience with the ability to work cross functionally and communicate effectively to senior leadership at the company. Applicable experience included, driving program reviews, providing input to planning, and adjusting project timelines to ensure deliverables are met.
• Must have experience leading technology teams applied to a range (3+) of consumer-facing product streams concurrently.
• Deliverables must include resource allocation of engineers, tracking engineering KPI’s across multiple delivery teams, design and prioritize development roadmaps and investment priorities, and driving coordination with technology and business managers.
• Experience working with Technology Directors and Managers. Applicable experience included, driving program reviews, providing input to planning, and adjusting project timelines to ensure deliverables are met.

Our must haves:

• Proven work ethic with utmost integrity
• Desire to excel and succeed
• Actively live and breathe the lululemon culture and lifestyle
• Self-awareness, with a desire for constant self-improvement (goal oriented)
• Entrepreneurial spirit and an egoless nature
• Self-motivated, passionate, empathetic, approachable
• Outgoing, energetic, upbeat and fun!
• Java,Microservices
• Leading team
• Retail is nice to have
• AWS Cloud
• Technology Manager I
• 10+Yrs
• Expertise on SEO
• Top priority is a strong people leader first, and then we will look into their domain knowledge listed within the JD