Distinguished Architect, Building Design Products

Autodesk is seeking a Distinguished Software Architect to lead the technical vision for its Building Design product portfolio, including Revit. This role involves setting a compelling technical vision and strategy for cloud-native capabilities, data at scale, AI, and 3D modeling. Based in Boston, MA, the architect will manage a team, drive technology decisions, ensure secure and performant systems, and collaborate across the AEC portfolio to deliver sustainable solutions for customers.

Must Have

• Synthesize and communicate a compelling technical vision encompassing desktop computing evolution, data strategy, scalable and distributed computation, and the application of AI technologies.
• Apply architectural and system knowledge to influence strategy, planning, and execution.
• Take direct accountability for making technology decisions and driving decision-making among 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Keep strategic priorities top of mind and align architectural work to support those goals.
• Collaborate with other software architects, product managers, and user experience leaders to develop strategic solutions.
• Consistently demonstrate sound and pragmatic technical judgment, soliciting feedback from stakeholders.
• Work with peers throughout Autodesk to understand technology landscape and challenges, articulate opportunities, and evangelize change.
• Communicate effectively and proactively on technical topics to varied audiences, including executive leadership and customers.
• Lead, inspire, coach, and manage a team of Software Architects across a global organization.
• Ensure cohesiveness and excellence in the practice of software architecture and technical excellence.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience as a software architect, with at least 5 years in cloud software.
• Track record of delivering desktop and cloud software, spanning products and industries.
• Ability and desire to get things done without the need for external deadlines or daily oversight.
• Proven ability to organize and delegate the design and execution of systems larger than a single person.

Good to Have

• An advanced degree in computer science.
• Experience transforming enterprise level desktop applications to cloud.
• Experience leading or managing an architecture team.
• Experience in AI/ML.
• An industry expert in and contributor to software architecture practice.
• Experience in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction industry.

Perks & Benefits

• Health benefits
• Financial benefits
• Time away
• Everyday wellness

Job Requisition ID #

25WD93075

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.

Based in Boston, MA 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.

Responsibilities

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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 stakeholders at all levels

Minimum Qualifications

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• A bachelor’s degree in computer science, or equivalent experience
• A minimum of 10 years of experience as a software architect, with at least 5 years in cloud software
• A track record of delivering desktop and cloud software, spanning products and industries
• An ability and desire to get things done without the need for external deadlines or daily oversight
• Proven ability to organize and delegate the design and execution of systems that are larger than a single person
• Sought out by other teams, leaders, and customers for their expertise
• Recognized for innovative work, such as via patents and publications
• Demonstrated ability to transform the software architecture practices for a group of architects and engineers

Preferred Qualifications

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• An advanced degree in computer science
• Experience transforming enterprise level desktop applications to cloud
• Experience leading or managing an architecture team
• Experience in AI/ML
• An industry expert in and contributor to software architecture practice
• Experience in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction industry

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