Distinguished Software Architect; Head of Water Architecture

Position Overview

Autodesk Water is reimagining how water infrastructure is planned, designed, and operated. We are evolving a portfolio of trusted desktop and cloud products — including Info Works ICM, Info Drainage, Info
360 Asset, and our hydraulic simulation engines — into a connected, platform-native system of intelligence that helps utilities and engineering firms move from modeling water systems to operating them with confidence.

• Set and communicate a compelling technical vision for the Water portfolio that spans desktop evolution, cloud-native services, hybrid desktop-cloud workflows, data strategy, and the application of AI — with pragmatic, incremental plans to get there
• Take direct accountability for portfolio-level architectural decisions, and drive decision-making in partnership with product development leads, engineering leadership, and stakeholders
• Apply architectural and systems thinking to influence product strategy, planning, and execution across simulation, asset intelligence, and operational workflows
• Identify Water’s opportunities to reuse and contribute to Autodesk platform capabilities — Forma and Forma Data Management, AI Accelerator, CloudOS, regional infrastructure, identity, and observability
• Drive the design of secure, reliable, performant systems that respect customer data and meet operational goals appropriate to mission-critical water infrastructure

• Define and evolve the components, relationships, and governing principles that shape Water’s architecture across cloud, desktop, and hybrid environments
• Establish strong interface and data modeling design across hydraulic simulation, asset records, geospatial data, and operational telemetry — applying coupling and cohesion to make a portfolio of products feel like one system
• Govern interoperability with Autodesk Civil 3D and other AEC products, ensuring shared object models and bidirectional design-to-modeling workflows hold up at scale
• Establish and enforce standards and practices for software design; define views, diagrams, and other formal isms used to articulate and review designs.
• Lead architecture reviews and forums to promote best practices, align on architecture decisions, and ensure non-functional qualities (performance, reliability, security, privacy) hold up across the portfolio
• Maintain and apply expert-level, current knowledge of architectural patterns, distributed systems, and emerging technologies, including AI/ML and hybrid desktop-cloud computing

• Partner closely with the development leads across each Water product team, providing architectural direction without direct authority — building the trust and clarity that makes alignment durable
• Collaborate with software architects across AEC, the Autodesk Platform, and other divisions to ensure cohesive system-level design that supports cross-product workflows
• Work with Product Management, UX, and Engineering leaders to translate complex problems — hydraulic modeling fidelity, ingestion of legacy and partner data, operational scale — into pragmatic architectural direction
• Demonstrate sound technical judgment by soliciting feedback from stakeholders, weighing trade-offs, and anticipating long-term impact
• Lead or participate in Autodesk-wide technical working groups; build durable peer relationships across the Chief Architect organization and divisional architecture teams

• Communicate effectively and proactively on technical topics to varied audiences — from engineering teams to executive leadership and customers
• Take complex ideas and convey them concisely, using diagrams and written narratives that hold up under scrutiny
• Foster a culture of architectural rigor and knowledge sharing across the Water development teams and broader Autodesk technical community
• Mentor senior engineers and emerging architects across the Water organization
• Play a leading role in Autodesk technical conferences and forums, with the option to publish or present externally
• Travel approximately four times per year to meet with globally distributed…