Software Architect – AEC Platform Data

About the role

Autodesk’s Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) Platform Data organization is looking for an experienced Software Architect to design and build the systems and services that enable cross‑cutting data capabilities across Autodesk’s AEC products.

Key responsibilities

• Define and evolve cross‑team architecture for data platforms and services within the AEC Platform Data organization.
• Establish standards, reference architectures, and reusable components; drive adoption across teams.
• Lead architectural governance, maintain architectural decision records, and run design reviews.
• Design and guide implementation of distributed systems, APIs, schemas, event streams, and batch/streaming pipelines.
• Ensure reliability, security, performance; define SLOs and drive observability (metrics, tracing, logging).
• Partner with product and platform teams across the AEC organization to align roadmaps and integrations.
• Communicate architectures with clear diagrams (e.g., C4) and executive‑ready narratives.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of experience as a Software Architect in data‑intensive cloud environments.
• Proven ability to influence without authority and drive cross‑team alignment.
• Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills for conveying complex architecture concepts.

Required skills

• Cloud services (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP).
• API design and implementation.
• Database architecture and big‑data tools/frameworks.
• Data modeling, management and processing principles.
• Design of distributed systems, event streams, batch and streaming pipelines.
• Software design and architecture best practices.