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Solution Architect

EL-Shaddai Technologies IncSeattle, WA🇺🇸United StatesPosted 15 Sept 2026

Quick Overview

Seniority
Mid Senior
Work mode
Hybrid
Location
Seattle, WA, United States
Posted
23 hours ago
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Job Description

Role - Sr Solution Architect
Client - Lululemon
Location - Seattle, WA  Local 

NOTE: Look for less than 15 yrs of exp. Retail domain exp is a must. (Fashion retail) Data exp would be a plus.
 
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  Seattle SSC, up to 4 days a week, based on the location.
 

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