Lululemon

Who we are

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 

Global Supply Chain Engineering builds secure, reliable, and scalable platforms that enable the end‑to‑end lifecycle of our products, spanning product creation, planning, sourcing, manufacturing, logistics, and inventory execution. We partner closely with creative, commercial, planning, and operational teams to transform historically manual, sequential workflows into digitally enabled, data‑driven, and resilient supply chain systems that scale globally.

This role sits at the intersection of enterprise platforms, supply chain execution, and digital operations, helping modernize core capabilities and unlock new ways of working across the value chain.

Core responsibilities 

As a Senior Principal Engineer, you will set company-wide engineering direction and technical vision while serving as executive-level technical authority, collaborating closely with architects to influence technical architecture decisions through deep expertise that enables innovation, engineering velocity, and competitive advantage. You will drive innovation in engineering practices establishing the organization as industry leader in engineering excellence, partner with C-level executives on technical transformation initiatives, and balance exemplary hands-on engineering in company-critical systems with advisory and organizational leadership responsibilities. You will mentor and develop engineering leaders building technical leadership capability at scale, influence company strategy through engineering expertise and vision, and represent the company as industry thought leader through keynote presentations, advisory boards, and engineering community leadership. This role may require availability outside of standard business hours, including on‑call support, based on business needs.

Select responsibilities include:

• Define and evolve the end‑to‑end technical architecture supporting supply chain planning, sourcing, manufacturing, logistics, inventory, and fulfillment.
• Partner with Principal Architects, Technology Directors, and Executives to define future‑state Go-To-Market, Supply Chain, and Corporate Systems roadmaps aligned to business strategy and competitive advantage.
• Establish and govern architectural standards, guardrails, and system‑of‑record boundaries across complex, multi‑system ecosystems.
• Design and deliver cloud‑native, distributed, and event‑driven platforms, ensuring scalability, reliability, resilience, and fault tolerance.
• Lead the modernization of legacy platforms, reducing technical debt while improving delivery speed, system stability, and operational performance.
• Serve as an exemplary hands‑on technologist, contributing to high‑impact production code, complex debugging efforts, and critical architectural and design reviews.
• Drive API‑first, headless system design and clean, automated data flows across enterprise interfaces.
• Define and maintain canonical data models for core supply chain domains (e.g., product, supplier, capacity, cost, inventory, orders, shipments).

• Apply automation, optimization, and AI‑assisted techniques to improve planning, forecasting, exception management, and decision‑support workflows.
• Influence company‑wide engineering practices and standards to accelerate velocity, reliability, and developer productivity at enterprise scale.
• Proactively identify, anticipate, and mitigate systemic technical risks across interconnected platforms and critical supply chain capabilities.
• Act as a mentor and coach to Principal Engineers and senior technical leaders, building depth, continuity, and technical leadership succession.
• Serve as an executive‑level technical advisor to C‑level and business unit leaders on major technology investments, platform strategy, and transformation initiatives.

Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Technology, or equivalent experience;Master’sor PhD degree strongly preferred
• 15-18 years of progressive software engineering experience with proven track record of defining technical strategy, driving technical engineering decisions at enterprise scale, and influencing engineering culture across organizations, or equivalent
• Mastery-level coding ability across diverse technology stacks, with a proven track record of contributing critical production code in the most technically demanding and high-stakes situations
• Proven ability to define technical decision-making frameworks that enable sound judgement at an organizational level; deep experience anticipating and mitigating company-wide technical risks including systemic failure modes and architectural vulnerabilities; ideally within supply chain, operations or enterprise commercial domains 
• Experience setting company-wide implementation planning standards and execution frameworks for complex system builds; track record of ensuring architectural designs are executable and operationally sound
• Demonstrated ability to shape company strategy and competitive positioning by connecting technical capabilities to business opportunities and market dynamics

• Demonstrated success modernizing legacy systems in large, distributed organizations
• Deep expertise in: 

• Cloud‑native architectures (e.g., AWS, containerization, Kubernetes, serverless patterns)
• Distributed systems and microservices
• API‑based and event‑driven architectures (e.g., Kafka or equivalent)
• Data platforms (relational, NoSQL, time‑series, analytical systems, enterprise governance)

• Practical experience applying automation, analytics, or AI/ML to operational or supply chain workflows.

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. 

Please Note:

Authorization to work in Canada is required for this role.

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 $224,400 - $294,500 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 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 
• 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 In-Person under our SSC Workplace Policy:  

In-person collaboration and/or office-based work is necessary or important for the role. Work is mainly performed onsite, 4-5 days per week depending on role requirements.