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Chief Architect, PSET

Autodesk

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22WD59611

Autodesk Chief Architect Job Description Position Overview

Autodesk’s Chief Architect for Platform Services and Emerging Technologies (PSET) will design and drive the execution of a platform transformation for the PSET technologies and capabilities. This executive will be accountable for the technology vision and road map for PSET across Autodesk, defining our path for establishing the industry-leading platform for design and make in our industries. The Chief Architect will partner with the industry and strategy teams across Autodesk to accelerate the platform vision and be its technical champion.

Key Responsibilities

  • Define and drive the strategic direction of platform initiatives for PSET for the next 3-5 years, serving as both an information resource for our capabilities and a “visionary” by providing insights and guidance on our future capabilities and opportunities
  • Create technology roadmaps, making predictions about technology trends and determining how they will shape our platform strategy. Work with industry chief architects across the company to align and communicate the technical direction
  • Provide consulting support to identify and develop competitive product strategies to maintain and enhance product differentiation in the marketplace
  • Develop guiding principles onprioritizing the right capabilitiesto help speed up cloud platform and data transformation.
  • Align the technical direction with business needs, guiding PSET engineering and technical teams to make the right compromises between short-term business opportunities and long-term technical vision.
  • Improve ROI on R&D investments through shared tech and driving down technical debt.
  • Evaluate potential acquisitions and provide formal analysis of recommendations regarding capabilities, utility within the scope of the Company’s existing technologies, integration issues and technology-based benefits
  • Guide, support and nurture the senior and mid-levelarchitecture, steward, and engineering leader communityin evolving the industry cloud platforms and enterprise architecture for the company.
  • Develop a playbook onengineering excellencefor Autodesk including architecture community involvement in creating trusted services and applications
  • Simplify and clarifyarchitecture decisions through the companyand govern adherence to stated decisions.
  • Be an inspiring, visionary leader participating in internal and industry events and keynotes to promote Autodesk’s technology, present and future

Ideal Candidate

  • Desktop to cloud transformation expertise.
  • Understands 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
  • Enterprise mindset. Has owned and delivered innovative customer-facing SaaS products at scale for more the 50M users.
  • Expertise in architecting data systems for real time, analytical systems and delivered AI/ML based customer outcomes
  • Experiencewith 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
  • Deep technical competence aroundcloud, platform, and backend services, distributed architecture,open source,working with metadata,data pipelines, understands large data flows
  • Ability to interface and understand the needs of technical clients in the Construction, Manufacturing, Design, and Media & Entertainment industries. Skilled atpattern recognition to seek out shared capabilities across current and future industry solutions
  • Track record of working on new cutting-edge tech to solve meaningful customer problems

Minimum Qualifications

  • Experience as an engineering or technical leader, with focus on cloud and backend services. Led engineering teams and understands execution challenges.
  • Technical visionary. Able to set and evangelize a holistic architectural roadmap anddrive long-term strategic technological direction. Systems thinker that can zoom in and out to connect the dots to the big picture.
  • 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
  • Excellent external and internal communicator: 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. Able to work independently in highly matrixed environments, with technical and business groups internally and externally.
  • Wins by connecting customer outcomes backed by data and broader context. Comfortable aligning teams on tech conflicts.

At Autodesk, we’re building a diverse workplace and an inclusive culture to give more people the chance to imagine, design, and make a better world. Autodesk is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic. We also consider for employment all qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

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