Sr. Solutions Architect

Location- Seattle - WA or Vancouver - WA
 
ROLE DESCRIPTION 
 
Outline of the Role: 
 
Solutioning of high-performing and thoughtfully architected software applications that satisfy our internal business needs and guest experiences. Has proven experience in effectively applying architectural best practices and forward thinking to build, enhance and sustain technology solutions that supports an organization that grows at an explosive rate. 
 
 Principal Duties and Responsibilities: 
 
Solution/system Design of System architecture and roadmap 
Utilize architecture best practices and standards in design and build 
Design and document re-usable and scalable frameworks and components 
Provide first level effort and cost assessments to departmental initiatives 
Coordinate & collaborate with counterparts in other departments to ensure technology solutions are built for the enterprise  
Assist management in making technology decisions by weighing in on risk and ROI 
Participate and contribute to yearly strategic initiative planning and funding discussions 
Collaborate with Product Management, Domain Architects and Lead Engineer to bring projects from concept to implementation 
Serves as primary technical solution design architect for one or more teams and their systems and integrations 
Serves as primary decision escalation resource for addressing architecture and integration issues affecting their team 
Continuously drive improvements in areas like performance, security, automation, quality, monitoring, and reliability of platforms  
Develops and maintains current and future-state architecture models and ensures all documentation is kept up to date 
Keeps up with industry best practices, technologies, architectures, trends, emerging technologies and develop proof of concept projects to validate new ideas 
 
 
 
Qualifications, Skills, Experience and Personal Requirements:
 
Bachelor’s degree in computer science/engineering or equivalent.  
10+ years of software engineering experience including 5+ years in architecting enterprise applications using modern integration technologies 
Well experienced in the Retail/Supply chain industry, familiar with application systems and business practices in this realm 
Experience solutioning end-to-end full-stack applications, integration of SaaS and PaaS systems 
Experience building technology roadmaps spanning 3-5 years 
Experience in vendor evaluation and scoring of new technologies/tools 
Excellent team player, ability to work independently and as part of a team 
Experience in mentoring technical team-members and providing technical leadership 
Familiarity with architectural frameworks and patterns 
Experience working in a SAFe ® /Agile environment 
Experience contributing to multiple medium to large size initiatives simultaneously  
Familiarity with streaming platforms (real-time data at massive scale like Confluent Kafka).   
Experience with AWS or other public clouds from a system design perspective 
Experience working with containers, Docker, Kubernetes or other container schedulers   
 
 
Additional Manager Comments: 
 
Candidates with the following will be prioritized: 
Industry experience in Retail domain 
Experience working with CBX platform 
 
This role is a hybrid one – the incumbent is expected to work from lululemon’s Vancouver SSC or Seattle SSC, up to 4 days a week, based on the location.