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 

The P&C Technology team enables seamless, best‑in‑class experiences for our global workforce by delivering secure, scalable solutions. Through data‑driven insights and processes, we empower the business to support IDEA commitments and the growth and development of our people, while ensuring strong delivery accountability and operational excellence.

Core responsibilities 

As a Staff Application Engineer, you will design and deliver enterprise application solutions and frameworks spanning multiple teams and business units, establishing application engineering standards including configuration patterns, proprietary development practices, and governance frameworks adopted across the organization while ensuring alignment with business objectives and application architecture standards. You will consult on application architecture decisions providing technical expertise to architects, balance hands-on application engineering in critical areas with advisory responsibilities across teams, and ensure application solutions deliver measurable business value. You will mentor application engineers at all levels including developing emerging technical leaders, identify and resolve critical application engineering challenges spanning multiple systems, and drive application initiatives that improve system capability and organizational effectiveness. This role may require availability outside of standard business hours, including on‑call support, based on business needs.

Select responsibilities include:

• Design and implement enterprise application solutions and frameworks spanning multiple teams and business units, establishing configuration patterns and practices that scale across the organization
• Drive complex, multi-team initiatives with minimal supervision, making key technical decisions independently while navigating ambiguity and competing priorities
• Write exemplary configurations and proprietary application code in critical areas demonstrating best-in-class application engineering practices when situations require deep platform expertise
• Consult with architects on application architecture decisions providing technical expertise on implementation feasibility, scalability considerations, and operational implications
• Establish application engineering and configuration standards adopted across the organization including validation strategies, deployment workflows, and quality practices
• Partner with business and engineering leadership on application implementation strategy, roadmap planning, and alignment with business priorities
• Mentor application engineers at all levels including developing senior engineers and emerging application engineering leaders

Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Business Administration, Computer Science, or related field, or equivalent experience; Master’s degree preferred
• 9-12 years of experience defining application strategy, establishing integration and configuration standards, and driving organization-wide application decisions, or equivalent
• Proven experience designing domain-wide configuration frameworks and standards adopted across multiple teams
• Track record of defining complex coding and scripting standards used company-wide for application platforms; experience establishing platform extension strategies balancing low-code versus scripting approaches
• Experience establishing integration standards and patterns for a domain leveraging platform-native connectors and integration tools; proven ability to define data management frameworks and mapping strategies adopted across the organization
• Demonstrated ability to define configuration lifecycle and release management standards for a domain; experience establishing release governance frameworks aligned with vendor update cycles and organizational change management
• Proven track record of building organizational application engineering capability through mentoring engineers at all levels across a domain

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 $150,000-190,000 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, 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

Hybrid 

In-person collaboration and connection is important to our culture. Work is performed onsite, minimum 4 days per week.

Authorization to work in the Canada is required for this role.

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