Job Description

About Lululemon India Tech Hub

The Hub is key to our business strategy. Weve grown quickly since our inception in 1998, and our continued global growth through market expansion is one of our five goals. We believe that this strategic investment in the India Tech Hub will support our growth, elevate the athletic apparel shopping experience and increase the global talent pool for our current and future technology needs. The India Tech Hub will help us work smarter and faster across our business's value chain by unlocking the power of data and technology. In this centre, development work will focus on AI, Machine Learning, and Data Science. Through the Hub, we will expand our capabilities in Product Systems, Merchandising and Planning, Digital Presence, Distribution and Logistics, and Corporate Systems. The team in India will work as an extension of the global Technology team on projects of strategic priorities.



Who We Are

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. We work together to elevate the world and we set audacious goals, nurture big growth, and engineer innovative products that allow people to feeland performtheir best.

To us, leadership is more than a role or titleits a way of being.

About the India Tech Hub With an increasingly connected world, the rise of athleisure as a lifestyle, and growing e-commerce services, the India Tech Hub will play a vital role in strengthening our capabilities and reach to an even wider audience. Together, were co-creating a future that otherwise wouldnt exist. To do that, were looking for people who unite diverse perspectives to lean into bold visions. Who strive to be better than they were yesterday. Who are all in, in everything they do. About the team The opportunity is for a role in Visual Assortment and Space planning in the Merchandise Planning, PLIM, Trade and Network Planning team.

The objective is to align strategic intent with in-store execution and compliance to the global merchandising strategies and brand stories. We support the pre-season/in-season suite of technology solutions while living our vision to be an experiential brand and enhance the guest experience by delivering the right product, at the right place and time. We are responsible for ensuring the success of the team and proactively identify the most high-value deliverables and focus on shipping quality software solutions and other deliverables. By partnering closely with the business partners, project leads, and technical teams we help deliver project scope and ensure stakeholder expectations are met. At all levels, we demonstrate leadership by supporting the growth and development of the team as a whole and individually. At the core of our product is innovation. Planning functions are critical in understanding our guest, market, demand, and driving decisions on product placement. Our work aims to ensure end to end execution of our merchandising strategies to marry the right product to the right sizes of the boxes.

Our work directly contributes to the success and growth of store planners, visual merchandising and retail teams. Who You Are The ideal candidate performs the development of high-performing, well-tested, and thoughtfully architected software applications that satisfy our internal business needs & power guest experiences; Has proven experience in effectively applying scientific, mathematical, and social principles to design, build, & maintain technology products, devices, systems, and solutions that provide amazing customer experiences.

A Day in the Life

• Work closely with Senior Engineer and Solution Architects to support and drive solution implementations.
• Uses algorithms, data structures, programming languages, programming paradigms to create, test, and operate sustainable client-side or server-side software applications and services.
• Builds and extends full stack Java applications in cloud, hybrid cloud and/or on premise environments.
• Ensures applications are designed to be highly available, observable, and durable via software engineering best practices.
• Provide L3 support for troubleshooting & resolving Production issues & Prepare system for Peak performance scaling.
• Works with business and systems analysts to understand end-user requirements and translate those into pragmatic & effective technical solutions.
• Works closely with onsite and remote frontend, backend and operations engineers to ensure deliverables are well-documented, secure, and resilient.
• Applies DevOps practices- brings development and IT ops processes, people, and tools closer together to increase the speed, efficiency, and quality with which we deliver technical solutions. Designs for release configuration management.
• Collaborates with the engineering teams (distributed globally) to deliver on integration projects. Engages in ongoing quality and performance improvement to ensure reliability and security. Must Haves
• Acknowledges the presence of choice in every moment and takes personal responsibility for their life.
• Possesses an entrepreneurial spirit and continuously innovates to achieve great results.
• Communicates with honesty and kindness and creates space for others to do the same.
• Leads with courage, knowing the possibility of greatness is bigger than the fear of failure.
• Fosters connection by putting people first and building trusting relationships.
• Integrates fun and joy as a way of being and working, aka doesnt take themselves too seriously. Qualifications
• Bachelors degree in computer science/engineering or equivalent.

• 5 - 8 years experience in full stack Java based application software development with 4+ years of experience as technical lead.
• 5 - 8 years experience in Java/J2EE, Hibernate, JDBC, AngularJS/ReactJS/NodeJS & JavaScript, CSS, HTML and bootstrap, RESTFUL or SOAP web services using XML / JSON, Spring and Spring Batch, building Micro services using Spring boot. Scaling and debugging interconnected microservices.
• Strong experience in working with large scale and NoSQL databases (i.e., Cassandra, Scylla, HBase, etc.), Traditional RDBMS and SQL (Postgres, Aurora, etc.).
• Strong software development fundamentals including design, coding, automated testing, source control, continuous integration in addition to continuous delivery and/or deployment.
• Strong technical, hands-on, experience to support development, infrastructure, and operations. Familiarity with streaming platforms (real-time data at a massive scale like Confluent Kafka)
• Hands-on working experience with AWS cloud technologies and platforms. Must have AWS Developer certification.
• Familiarity and understanding of DevOps CI CD
• Ability to work independently with minimal direction be a self-starter with strong initiative, and ability to manage/execute workload to deliver high quality results.
• Familiar with: GitHub, Eclipse, Jira, Confluence, MS Office, SharePoint, Smartsheet
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Support troubleshooting through solid analytical reasoning
• Experience in Waterfall & Agile methodology.
• Experience working with high transaction systems.
• Must have skills: SKILL Proficiency level
• Jira, Confluence, Slack, MS Office, SharePoint, Smartsheet
• in Linux/Unix system administration, system, and server builds, installations, upgrades, tuning, migration, and troubleshooting
• Monitoring tools like Grafana, Splunk etc.