Job Requisition ID #

24WD80097

Position Overview

Fundamental technology change continues to march forward at an accelerating pace. Cloud services, cloud data models, continuous delivery, quantum computing and artificial intelligence are just some examples of how technology and practices continue to evolve. Meanwhile, customer expectations for trust, performance, and reducing time to value are increasing.

For product development teams to fully realize the possibilities of new technologies and meet increasing customer expectations, the underlying technical architecture must consider these changes. Technical architecture must provide flexibility, resilience, scalability, and performance.

Forward-looking architecture will empower product development teams, reduce delivery cycles, lead to adoption of new practices, drive toward continuous delivery, and ultimately reduce the time to value for customers.

The Vice President, Chief Architect, Product Development and Manufacturing Solutions will partner with product development teams to both accelerate these technology changes from the inside and relay their needs for acceleration to other parts of Autodesk, championing those needs on behalf of Product Development and Manufacturing Solutions.

We are a remote-first workplace. You’ll work with teammates across the globe and will travel up to 10-15% of the time for face-to-face meetings like conferences, team offsites, and customers. If you prefer office life, we have offices in numerous cites including San Francisco, Portland, Denver, Boston, and Atlanta.

Responsibilities

Reporting to the Executive Vice President, Product Development and Manufacturing Solutions, as the Vice President, Chief Architect, Product Development and Manufacturing Solutions (PDMS) and the top technical architecture leader of the PDMS organization, you will:

• Develop forward-looking architectural blueprint for end-to-end capabilities of the Fusion Industry Cloud, incorporating cloud data models and AI

• Drive architectural improvement and alignment across PDMS and Autodesk

• Work closely with other divisional Chief Architects for key architectural decisions

• Work closely with Autodesk stewards to influence and support platform development and adoption

• Team with PDMS Leadership regarding future platform and technology opportunities and the effect of decisions on current and future objectives

• Act as a visionary leader to the development community; evangelizing, communicating, and distributing technical information

• Engage and partner with product teams to align technical strategy and execution

• Push boundaries and infuse the organization with modern techniques and technical skill sets

• Provide guidance to PDMS leadership and our CEO's direct leadership on advanced technical issues

Ideal Candidate

• You have a profound understanding of how innovative product organizations leverage continuous delivery to optimize time to value, and the enabling (cloud) technology and engineering practices that are needed to support it

• You have an enterprise mindset having delivered innovative customer-facing SaaS products at scale

• You are a technical visionary able to set and evangelize a holistic architectural roadmap and drive long-term strategic technological direction

• You have experience with SaaS at scale for services that are mission critical to your customers. Bonus for experience leading large-scale cloud migration initiatives from primarily desktop products

• You have deep technical competence around AI, cloud, platform, and backend services, distributed architecture, open source, working with metadata, data pipelines, and understand large data flows

• You have the ability to interface and understand the needs of technical clients in the manufacturing industry and translate those needs into robust software solutions

• You demonstrate a high level of technical credibility; player/coach who can garner the respect of the technical team and attracts top-tier software development talent

• You have exceptional influencing skills

• You are able to work independently in highly ambiguous environments with technical and business groups internally and externally

• You have a track record of working on new cutting-edge tech to solve meaningful customer problems

Desired Technology Experiences

• Experience improving resilience and performance in large scale complex software systems

• Experience modernizing monolithic desktop software stacks

• Experience architecting resilient and efficient cloud data stacks for large scale storage and concurrent usage

• Experience unifying discrete cloud and desktop technologies into coherent platform-based experiences

• Experience implementing AI/ML at scale

• Experience with front-end technologies and the scalable implementation of design systems

• Familiarity with both desktop and cloud development technologies to the level of being able to conduct code reviews for both

• Experience with the challenges of interactive 3d graphics pipelines

• Experience with architecting for compute intensive workflows

• Knowledge of cloud security models and best practices

• Knowledge of international compliance standards (e.g. SOC2, ISO 27xxx, FedRAMP, etc)

Minimum Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience as a principal or lead architect in a software or SaaS technology company

• BS or MS in computer science or related field or equivalent work experience

• Experience as an engineering or technical leader with focus on AI, data, and cloud services

• The ability to communicate to senior decision makers in a clear, compelling way, and to drive decisive action in partnership with others in a large, matrixed organization

• Exceptional influencing skills

• Demonstrated success working independently in complex, global, matrixed environments, and with technical and business groups internally and externally

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About Autodesk

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Benefits

From health and financial benefits to time away and everyday wellness, we give Autodeskers the best, so they can do their best work. Learn more about our benefits in the U.S. by visiting https://benefits.autodesk.com/

Salary transparency

Salary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package. For U.S.-based roles, we expect a starting base salary between $292,200 and $401,830. Offers are based on the candidate’s experience and geographic location, and may exceed this range. In addition to base salaries, we also have a significant emphasis on annual cash bonuses, commissions for sales roles, stock grants, and a comprehensive benefits package.

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