Distinguished Architect, Building Design Products Portfolio

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Autodesk is transforming how the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry works by helping our customers focus on sustainability, adopt outcome-based design, create digital twins, and more. We’re re-imagining our applications with cloud-native capabilities including data at scale, edge computing, AI-based solutions, and cutting-edge 3D modeling and graphics. And we’re doing this in our flagship products, including Revit, an industry-leading building information model software serving hundreds of thousands of customers globally, as well as tools for structural analysis, structural detailing, Mechanical/Electrical/Plumbing (MEP) fabrication, and sustainability analysis.

Location
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Remote United States or Hybrid

This role supports Autodesk’s hybrid-first approach.

We are looking for a Distinguished Software Architect to set the technical vision for the Building Design product portfolio
, lead a Software Architect team, and coordinate across the AEC portfolio and Autodesk. In this role you will be responsible for creating a compelling technical vision, and a strategy for achieving that vision, to deliver compelling value for our customers and achieve business outcomes. It will involve managing a portfolio of products at different stages of their lifecycle, and how to best evolve this technology into the future.

Your inspirational leadership will foster the creation of core technologies which will help the AEC industry to create a better, more sustainable world.

Technical Vision & Strategy

• Synthesize and communicate a compelling technical vision encompassing desktop computing evolution, data strategy, scalable and distributed computation, and the application of AI technologies while devising pragmatic, incremental plans towards this vision

• Apply your architectural and system knowledge to influence strategy, planning, and execution

• Take direct accountability for making technology decisions, as well as driving decision making among the software architects and stakeholders

• Drive efforts to build secure systems that respect privacy while meeting reliability, performance, and other operational goals

• Lead re-use of platform capabilities and drive contributions to the Autodesk platform

Architectural Design & Standards

• Define and evolve the components, relationships, and governing principles that define the architecture of our systems

• Strong interface and data modeling design skills, applying concepts of coupling and cohesion

• Ensure the establishment and execution of standards and practices for software design; define views, diagrams, and other formalisms used to explore and articulate designs

• Maintain and apply expert-level, up-to-date knowledge of relevant architectural patterns and technologies

• Create trustworthy technology by ensuring the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications and architectures

Collaboration & Strategic Problem Solving

• Keeps strategic priorities top of mind and works to align architectural work so as to support those goals

• Collaborate with other software architects, product managers, and user experience leaders to develop strategic solutions to handle complex problems and specify systems interactions

• Consistently demonstrates sound and pragmatic technical judgment, soliciting feedback from stakeholders and weighing multiple factors

• Work with peers throughout Autodesk to understand our technology landscape and challenges, articulate opportunities, and evangelize change

• Maintain one-on-one relationships with peers across Autodesk to understand our technology landscape and challenges, articulate opportunities, and promote change

• Lead or participate in company-wide technical working groups

Communication & Knowledge Sharing

• Communicate effectively and proactively on technical topics to varied audiences, including executive leadership and customers

• Write and speak internally on your work, with an option for external communications

• Mastery of taking complex ideas and conveying them in a concise and impactful manner

• Excellent verbal, written communication, and presentation abilities to effectively communicate software architecture strategy to a variety of stakeholders

• Foster a culture of knowledge sharing amongst the software architect and technical leaders

• Play a leading role in Autodesk technical conferences and forums

• Travel at least four times per year to attend internal conferences and forums, and to meet with geographically distributed development teams

People Leadership & Team Development

• Lead, inspire, coach, and manage a team of Software Architects across a global organization

• Ensure a cohesiveness and excellence in the practice of software architecture and technical excellence

• Be a role model for communication with internal stakeholders and customers, from telling our strategy, to facilitating alignment towards shared goals, and handling challenging situations

• Ensure self and team is recognized as trusted partners with internal…