Visionary Cloud Software Architect Wanted

Transforming Business through Platform Strategy and Innovation

Autodesk is on a journey to transform its business through the realisation of our platform strategy and is seeking a Cloud Software Architect to help us in that journey. Our ability to deliver a trustworthy solution becomes paramount as our customers move their data and workflows into the Autodesk Platform. Delivering solutions that our customers consider dependable and performant while simultaneously addressing security, privacy, and cost concerns.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Work with peers throughout the organisation to understand our architectural landscape and challenges, articulate opportunities, and motivate change with an emphasis on building trust.
2. Drive technical standards and approaches to ensure scalability, agility, and resilience in cloud-based solutions.
3. Collaborate with leadership to articulate our current architecture and inform future investments via quantitative and qualitative arguments.
4. Assess current development and operational practices from an architectural perspective, emphasising privacy, security, and especially resilience.
5. Propose, prioritise, and encourage adoption of Autodesk architecture and practice standards to ensure consistency and efficiency.
6. Coordinate with multiple industry division product development teams, other members of our centralised platform team, and other teams through effective communication and networking.
7. Provide input on solving current and ongoing architecture challenges, designing and articulating architectural direction for the platform and interrelated divisions.
8. Lead the resolution of complex problems within one's discipline, often requiring integration of cross-functional processes and outcomes.
9. Contribute to cross-organisation working groups targeted at solving some of Autodesk's most pressing architectural challenges.
10. Maintain expert-level knowledge of architectural patterns, technologies, and trends.
11. Bring innovative, state-of-the-industry architectural thinking to our practice of software architecture.
12. Support configuration management and help create a build-once, deploy-anywhere strategy for efficient deployment pipelines.
13. Track industry best practices and advocate where relevant.
14. Influence leaders within your function to adopt solutions, establish priorities, and allocate resources.
15. Anticipate business challenges that could significantly impact Autodesk's operational and financial success and proactively develop solutions to address them.
16. Advise on the development and adoption of Autodesk and AWS technologies, including databases, compute frameworks, CI/CD, and regionalisation strategies.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 15+ years of experience in software engineering and software architecture.
• 5+ years in a senior architecture role in a SaaS business pursuing a platform strategy.
• Excellent experience in Java, Python, Golang, and other programming languages.
• Develop and maintain cloud architecture on AWS (Azure or other clouds acceptable), working with managed services such as RDS, Aurora, ECS, and Lambda.
• Drive continuous integration/continuous deployment improvements, with experience in Jenkins, Harness, and creating 'golden paths' for developers.
• Self-directed with an ability to complete work strategically and efficiently.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proven track record of innovation demonstrated through patents, publications, or conference presentations.
• Experience leading a company's transition from a product-centric model to a platform-centric approach, focusing on scalability and agility.
• Strong background in architecting and building large-scale, highly available, resilient cloud-based solutions.
• Ability to lead teams or initiatives with significant organisational impact and visibility.
• Expertise in developing novel, cutting-edge solutions that push the boundaries of existing technology.

About the Role:

As a Cloud Software Architect at Autodesk, you will play a key part in shaping the direction of our systems and practices. You will report to the Senior Distinguished Architect and be responsible for identifying, assessing, prioritising, and driving projects that achieve our platform vision.

Benefits:

We offer a competitive compensation package, including annual cash bonuses, commissions for sales roles, stock grants, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our salary transparency ensures fair compensation based on experience and geographic location.

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