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Live the experience. From professional empowerment to continual learning opportunities. From ongoing investment in new and emerging technologies to a career of self-determination. At Ulta Beauty, our tech team is critical to our scalability—and is recognized that way. We’ve been defined as a “mature start-up.” A place where interdepartmental exposure, open doors, and genuine collaboration is ubiquitous. Where challenges come fast and furious, requiring agility, mental dexterity, and creativity. Where our passion for better solutions drives us and is core to who we are.
We’re engineering for the future of retail, and it’s no-holds-barred. But for those motivated by continual change and ambiguity, by superior leadership, by whip smart colleagues who will press you daily for your very best, you’ll find that virtually nothing’s impossible at Ulta Beauty.
ABOUT THE JOB
COMPANY: Ulta, Inc.
LOCATION: 1000 Remington Blvd., Suite 120, Bolingbrook, IL 60440
TITLE: IT Senior Manager – Performance Engineering
HOURS: Monday to Friday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm
DUTIES:
- Develop deep working relationships with stakeholders, functional leaders, and project teams, understanding their needs and aligning the capabilities of the team accordingly.
- Engage with Architecture, Development, Operations, Cloud, and Infrastructure teams to embed the performance engineering operating model into our plan, build and run processes.
- Define the purpose, strategy, and roadmap for performance engineering across business processes, customer experience channels and technology stacks.
- Incorporate emerging trends into the Ulta performance engineering operating model and align those to business benefits and expected outcomes.
- Design and deploy the Ulta performance engineering operating model to deliver competitive advantage for our business and best in class digital experiences for our guests and associates.
- Leverage the power of metrics and story telling to help stakeholders visualize how performance and stability engineering enable the success of our technology and business.
- Engage at each phase of the technology investment lifecycle to define and integrate performance requirements analysis, establish metrics and SLOs, evaluate architectures and solution designs, engineer code, configuration and infrastructure to meet requirements and SLOs, and test integrated systems to confirm they will scale and perform as defined through the requirements and SLOs.
- Create a virtuous cycle of incorporating real-world operations conditions our technology encounters to feed back into the start of the performance engineering operating model for future enhancement.
- Provide the standards, process and tooling the team needs to deliver within a governance framework that is lightweight, adaptable and accelerates delivery.
- Hold leadership and delivery teams accountable for meeting performance engineering standards.
- Leverage project management, organization and collaboration to clarify goals, roles, process and ways of working to deliver results.
- Drive effective retrospectives and root cause analysis to learn from failures and drive a culture of continuous improvement.
- Hire great people and invest in them by providing coaching and mentoring, up-skilling and career development.
- Delegate to empower while also getting “hands on” when appropriate to both serve as model for expected performance and to remove obstacles impeding the team.
- Drive a fun, high-performing culture and provide leadership for the performance engineering team to organize, thrive and deliver the mission.
- Create and execute a multi-year enablement roadmap for performance engineering including maturity model, identification of as-is and to-be on the maturity model, and roadmap for investment in the people, process and technology required to achieve the to-be state.
- Define and manage project scope, schedule, deliverable and results measurement and keep all stakeholders informed throughout the delivery cycle for both performance engineering and performance testing services.
- Drive resource capacity and demand planning for the performance engineering team to align the availability of staff to the needs of the enterprise.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, MIS, CIS, Engineering (any), or related.
- Five (5) years in any occupation with experience in a combination of full-stack application development, DevOps, performance engineering and/or performance testing.
- Five (5) years in any occupation with experience in a combination of full-stack application development, DevOps, performance engineering and/or performance testing must include:
- Five (5) years of IT management experience delivering non-functional requirements and performance and stability engineering enterprise wide for a medium to large company with dozens of systems and a $100M+ annual technology investment roadmap.
- Experience must also include:
- Experience as people manager with track record of building a team, growing individual careers, and delivering technology results that impact the bottom line.
- Experience with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and Observability/APM tools.
- Cloud native application architectures and cloud infrastructure.
- Experience in retail or other high-volume environment.
- Performance management encompassing application, api, and infrastructure performance testing.
- Experience communicating across teams including both engineering and leadership teams.
- Experience with resource and scope estimation for both small and large project involving both internal and consulting resources.
SALARY
- $202,779 - $203,779 per year
The pay range for this position is $202,779.00 - $203,779.00 / Year with the opportunity for eligible associates to earn additional compensation pursuant to the Company’s bonus plan. Exact pay will be based on factors including, but not limited to relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, level, shift, geographic location, and business and organizational needs. Full-time positions are eligible for paid time off, health, dental, vision, life and disability benefits. Part-time positions are eligible for dental, vision, life, and disability benefits.
APPLY: https://careers.ulta.com/careers/ Job ID 475933
At Ulta Beauty (NASDAQ: ULTA), the possibilities are beautiful. Ulta Beauty is the largest North American beauty retailer and the premier beauty destination for cosmetics, fragrance, skin care products, hair care products and salon services. We bring possibilities to life through the power of beauty each and every day in our stores and online with more than 25,000 products from approximately 500 well-established and emerging beauty brands across all categories and price points, including Ulta Beauty’s own private label. Ulta Beauty also offers a full-service salon in every store featuring—hair, skin, brow, and make-up services.
We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest records, conviction records, or other criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of any applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the New York City Fair Chance Act.
INTRODUCTION
Live the experience. From professional empowerment to continual learning opportunities. From ongoing investment in new and emerging technologies to a career of self-determination. At Ulta Beauty, our tech team is critical to our scalability—and is recognized that way. We’ve been defined as a “mature start-up.” A place where interdepartmental exposure, open doors, and genuine collaboration is ubiquitous. Where challenges come fast and furious, requiring agility, mental dexterity, and creativity. Where our passion for better solutions drives us and is core to who we are.
We’re engineering for the future of retail, and it’s no-holds-barred. But for those motivated by continual change and ambiguity, by superior leadership, by whip smart colleagues who will press you daily for your very best, you’ll find that virtually nothing’s impossible at Ulta Beauty.
ABOUT THE JOB
COMPANY: Ulta, Inc.
LOCATION: 1000 Remington Blvd., Suite 120, Bolingbrook, IL 60440
TITLE: IT Senior Manager – Performance Engineering
HOURS: Monday to Friday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm
DUTIES:
- Develop deep working relationships with stakeholders, functional leaders, and project teams, understanding their needs and aligning the capabilities of the team accordingly.
- Engage with Architecture, Development, Operations, Cloud, and Infrastructure teams to embed the performance engineering operating model into our plan, build and run processes.
- Define the purpose, strategy, and roadmap for performance engineering across business processes, customer experience channels and technology stacks.
- Incorporate emerging trends into the Ulta performance engineering operating model and align those to business benefits and expected outcomes.
- Design and deploy the Ulta performance engineering operating model to deliver competitive advantage for our business and best in class digital experiences for our guests and associates.
- Leverage the power of metrics and story telling to help stakeholders visualize how performance and stability engineering enable the success of our technology and business.
- Engage at each phase of the technology investment lifecycle to define and integrate performance requirements analysis, establish metrics and SLOs, evaluate architectures and solution designs, engineer code, configuration and infrastructure to meet requirements and SLOs, and test integrated systems to confirm they will scale and perform as defined through the requirements and SLOs.
- Create a virtuous cycle of incorporating real-world operations conditions our technology encounters to feed back into the start of the performance engineering operating model for future enhancement.
- Provide the standards, process and tooling the team needs to deliver within a governance framework that is lightweight, adaptable and accelerates delivery.
- Hold leadership and delivery teams accountable for meeting performance engineering standards.
- Leverage project management, organization and collaboration to clarify goals, roles, process and ways of working to deliver results.
- Drive effective retrospectives and root cause analysis to learn from failures and drive a culture of continuous improvement.
- Hire great people and invest in them by providing coaching and mentoring, up-skilling and career development.
- Delegate to empower while also getting “hands on” when appropriate to both serve as model for expected performance and to remove obstacles impeding the team.
- Drive a fun, high-performing culture and provide leadership for the performance engineering team to organize, thrive and deliver the mission.
- Create and execute a multi-year enablement roadmap for performance engineering including maturity model, identification of as-is and to-be on the maturity model, and roadmap for investment in the people, process and technology required to achieve the to-be state.
- Define and manage project scope, schedule, deliverable and results measurement and keep all stakeholders informed throughout the delivery cycle for both performance engineering and performance testing services.
- Drive resource capacity and demand planning for the performance engineering team to align the availability of staff to the needs of the enterprise.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, MIS, CIS, Engineering (any), or related.
- Five (5) years in any occupation with experience in a combination of full-stack application development, DevOps, performance engineering and/or performance testing.
- Five (5) years in any occupation with experience in a combination of full-stack application development, DevOps, performance engineering and/or performance testing must include:
- Five (5) years of IT management experience delivering non-functional requirements and performance and stability engineering enterprise wide for a medium to large company with dozens of systems and a $100M+ annual technology investment roadmap.
- Experience must also include:
- Experience as people manager with track record of building a team, growing individual careers, and delivering technology results that impact the bottom line.
- Experience with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and Observability/APM tools.
- Cloud native application architectures and cloud infrastructure.
- Experience in retail or other high-volume environment.
- Performance management encompassing application, api, and infrastructure performance testing.
- Experience communicating across teams including both engineering and leadership teams.
- Experience with resource and scope estimation for both small and large project involving both internal and consulting resources.
SALARY
- $202,779 - $203,779 per year
The pay range for this position is $202,779.00 - $203,779.00 / Year with the opportunity for eligible associates to earn additional compensation pursuant to the Company’s bonus plan. Exact pay will be based on factors including, but not limited to relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, level, shift, geographic location, and business and organizational needs. Full-time positions are eligible for paid time off, health, dental, vision, life and disability benefits. Part-time positions are eligible for dental, vision, life, and disability benefits.
APPLY: https://careers.ulta.com/careers/ Job ID 475933
At Ulta Beauty (NASDAQ: ULTA), the possibilities are beautiful. Ulta Beauty is the largest North American beauty retailer and the premier beauty destination for cosmetics, fragrance, skin care products, hair care products and salon services. We bring possibilities to life through the power of beauty each and every day in our stores and online with more than 25,000 products from approximately 500 well-established and emerging beauty brands across all categories and price points, including Ulta Beauty’s own private label. Ulta Beauty also offers a full-service salon in every store featuring—hair, skin, brow, and make-up services.
We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest records, conviction records, or other criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of any applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the New York City Fair Chance Act.
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Tailor your resume to retail technical environments
Ulta's Engineering Technician roles focus on store-level systems, HVAC, electrical, and facilities equipment. Highlight hands-on maintenance experience and any retail or commercial property background before you apply, since generic lab or manufacturing resumes often get screened out.
Verify OPT authorization covers your start date
If you're on F-1 OPT, confirm your EAD card arrives before your first day. Ulta uses E-Verify, so your employment authorization must be active and match your documents at onboarding or your start date gets delayed.
Ask about sponsorship intent during the offer stage
Ulta supports TN and EB-category sponsorship for technical roles, but timelines vary by hiring manager and HR team. Ask directly during the offer call whether the position is approved for sponsorship before accepting, not after you've given notice elsewhere.
Understand the PERM process for EB sponsorship
EB-2 and EB-3 sponsorship at Ulta requires DOL PERM labor certification before USCIS petition filing. That process typically takes 12 to 18 months, so confirm early whether your team's budget cycle supports multi-year sponsorship commitments before you rely on it for long-term status.
Target store engineering and facilities requisitions specifically
Ulta posts Engineering Technician openings across regional clusters tied to store expansion and renovation. Search by metro area rather than a single location, since roles in growing markets get filled faster and are more likely to come with sponsorship budget already approved.
Use Migrate Mate to filter verified sponsorship roles
Not every Ulta engineering posting is tied to a sponsorship-approved headcount. Use Migrate Mate to filter Engineering Technician roles at Ulta that have a verified visa sponsorship history, so you're applying to positions where international candidates have actually been hired.
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Does Ulta sponsor H-1B visas for Engineering Technicians?
Ulta's Engineering Technician roles are more commonly sponsored under EB-2, EB-3, and TN categories than H-1B. H-1B sponsorship requires the position to qualify as a specialty occupation, and hands-on technician roles can face scrutiny on that standard. If H-1B is your path, confirm the specific role's job description supports a specialty occupation argument before assuming sponsorship is available.
How do I apply for Engineering Technician jobs at Ulta?
Apply directly through Ulta's careers portal, where Engineering Technician postings are listed by region and store cluster. Before applying, review whether the posting references facilities, store systems, or equipment maintenance, since these signal the roles most likely to have sponsorship budget. Migrate Mate also aggregates verified sponsorship-eligible Ulta postings so you can filter to relevant openings more efficiently.
Which visa types does Ulta commonly use for Engineering Technician roles?
Ulta has sponsored Engineering Technicians under F-1 OPT, F-1 CPT, TN, and EB-category Green Card pathways. TN is practical for Canadian and Mexican nationals in qualifying technical occupations. EB-2 and EB-3 are used for longer-term permanent residence sponsorship. H-1B is less common for this role type given the specialty occupation threshold technician positions must clear.
What qualifications does Ulta expect for Engineering Technician candidates?
Ulta typically looks for candidates with a technical degree or certificate in electrical, mechanical, or facilities systems, plus hands-on experience with commercial equipment. Retail environment experience is a differentiator, particularly familiarity with HVAC, lighting systems, or building management platforms. Certifications like EPA 608 for refrigerants or electrical licensing strengthen your application considerably for store-based roles.
How do I plan my timeline if Ulta agrees to sponsor a Green Card?
EB-category Green Card sponsorship through Ulta starts with DOL PERM labor certification, which takes 12 to 18 months before USCIS even receives the I-140 petition. If your priority date is not current when the I-140 is approved, additional wait time applies. Start this conversation with HR and an immigration attorney as early in the offer process as possible to avoid gaps in work authorization.
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