Jenny Phillips, MBA in

Jenny Phillips, MBA

Pioneer · DISC type DIS
Director, Central Engineering at Costco IT
📍 Issaquah, Washington, United States

Jenny Phillips is a technology leader specializing in platform engineering and developer experience at major enterprises like Costco, lululemon, and T-Mobile. With an MBA and SAFe certifications, she focuses on simplifying software delivery and leading large-scale transformations. Colleagues describe her as a "transformational", "exceptional", and "outstanding" leader.

She recently took a calculated career risk, leaving a previous role without a new one secured, demonstrating a high degree of confidence and faith in her professional journey. This thoughtful approach to her career path highlights her adaptability.

Her program, Elevate DevEx, won two ET Edge Data Center & Cloud Innovation Awards for Best Cloud Automation and Best Cloud Infrastructure.

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Experience
13 Years
Current Role
Director, Central Engineering
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Issaquah, Washington, United States
Personality Overview

How Jenny shows up

Driven But Considerate
Decisive But Friendly
Dynamic But Sincere

They combine a unique set of diverse traits where they are fast and friendly but can slow down to be thorough when needed They have the unique ability to win both love and respect from their team (or outsiders) If they are convinced, they can become very strong champions for your product

Priorities

Topics Jenny cares about

Developer Experience (DevEx)
She founded and led the award-winning "Elevate DevEx" program at lululemon, unifying CI/CD, automation, and enablement into a cohesive platform strategy to empower developers.
Enterprise Transformation
Her career is focused on leading platform, cloud, and DevOps transformations in complex retail and telecom environments to modernize systems and improve developer workflows.
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Career

Work history

2-2026
Director, Central Engineering
Costco IT
9-2025 - 2-2026
Network and Infra - Sustaining Engineering
Costco IT
4-2024 - 8-2025
Director, Enterprise and Platform Engineering
lululemon
5-2019 - 4-2024
Senior Leader, Software Development
T-Mobile
11-2018 - 5-2019
Software Development Manager
T-Mobile
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Education
8-2022 - 3-2024
Master of Business Administration - MBA
The University of Arizona Global Campus
Bachelor's of Science
University of Arizona
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

D

Dominance (D)

Dominance (D) reflects how goal and task oriented a person is, and their ability to accomplish results irrespective of how demanding the circumstances might be. Those scoring high tend to be motivated by winning, competition, and success.

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