Distinguished Architect, Building Design Products Portfolio

Distinguished Architect, Building Design Products Portfolio

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Position Overview:

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:

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.

Responsibilities

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 reuse 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 formal isms 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 among the software architect and technical leaders
• Play a leading role in Autodesk…