Software Architect: AEC Platform Data

Autodesk; Canada; On-site; CAD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation package

Annual cash bonuses

Comprehensive benefits package

Supportive culture of belonging

Job summary

A leading software company in Canada is seeking an experienced Software Architect to drive the design and implementation of data platforms for their AEC division. The role involves defining architecture standards, collaborating across teams, and ensuring system reliability and performance. Ideal candidates have a Bachelor's degree in computer science and over 10 years of experience in cloud environments. This position offers opportunities to influence data workflows and contribute to innovative projects that shape the future of architecture and construction.

Qualifications

• 10+ years as a Software Architect in data-intensive cloud environments.
• Excellent knowledge of software design and architecture.
• Strong understanding of data modeling, management and processing principles.
• Strong understanding of data modeling, management and processing principles.
• Excellent knowledge of software design and architecture.
• Demonstrated ability to influence without authority and drive cross-team alignment.
• Mastery of taking complex ideas and conveying them in a concise and impactful manner.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve cross-team architecture for data platforms and services.
• Establish standards and reference architectures.
• Design and guide implementation of distributed systems and data platforms.
• Design and guide implementation of distributed systems and data platforms (APIs, schemas, event streams; batch and streaming).
• Ensure reliability, security, and performance; define SLOs and drive observability (metrics, tracing, logging).
• Partner across the AEC organization's product and platform teams to align roadmaps and integrations.
• Communicate architectures with clear views and diagrams (e.g., C4) and executive-ready narratives.

Skills

Cloud services

API design

Data modeling

Software design

Communication

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Tools

AWS

Snowflake

Kafka

Job description

Overview

Autodesk's Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) Platform Data organization is seeking an experienced Software Architect. In this role, you will be responsible for designing and building the systems and services that power cross-cutting data capabilities across our organization and their integration with Autodesk's existing and future AEC products. This opportunity is for you if you have a passion for the design of complex system architectures and are excited by the idea of transforming how AEC professionals use data to capture knowledge, inform decisions, and deliver projects. As a Software Architect in the AEC Platform Data, you will be at the forefront of designing the next generation of capabilities for the Autodesk Forma Industry Cloud. You\'ll collaborate with software architects in the AEC Platform Data team as well as with software architects from the world\'s foremost applications and services for designing and constructing buildings and infrastructure, including Revit, Civil 3D, AutoCAD, the Autodesk Construction Cloud, and Autodesk Forma. You\'ll define the software architecture that reimagines the continuous flow of AEC Data (e.g. 3D models, 2D drawings, issue tracking, cost, sensor streams, etc.) and information throughout the entire lifecycle of a built asset, from design and construction through operation and maintenance. This is an individual contributor role reporting to the Distinguished Architect, AEC Platform Data team.

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Description Du Poste

Le département Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) Platform Data d\'Autodesk recherche un architecte logiciel expérimenté. À ce poste, vous serez chargé de concevoir et de développer les systèmes et services qui alimentent les capacités de données transversales au sein de notre organisation et leur intégration avec les produits AEC existants et futurs d\'Autodesk. Cette opportunité est faite pour vous si vous êtes passionné par la conception d\'architectures de systèmes complexes et si vous êtes enthousiasmé par l\'idée de transformer la manière dont les professionnels de l\'AEC utilisent les données pour acquérir des connaissances, éclairer leurs décisions et mener à bien leurs projets. En tant qu\'architecte logiciel au sein de la plateforme de données AEC, vous serez à l\'avant-garde de la conception de la prochaine génération de fonctionnalités pour Autodesk Forma Industry Cloud. Vous collaborerez avec les architectes logiciels de l\'équipe de la plateforme de données AEC ainsi qu\'avec les architectes logiciels des applications et services les plus avancés au monde pour la conception et la construction de bâtiments et d\'infrastructures, notamment Revit, Civil 3D, AutoCAD, Autodesk Construction Cloud et Autodesk Forma. Vous définirez l\'architecture logicielle qui réinvente le flux continu des données AEC et des informations tout au long du cycle de vie d\'un actif construit, de la conception et la construction à l\'exploitation et la maintenance.

Il s\'agit d\'un poste individuel relevant de l\'architecte distingué de l\'équipe AEC Platform Data.

Responsibilities

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

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor\'s degree in computer science, or equivalent experience
• 10+ years as a Software Architect in data-intensive cloud environments
• Experience with cloud services, API design, database architecture, big data tools and frameworks
• Strong understanding of data modeling, management and processing principles
• Excellent knowledge of software design and architecture
• Demonstrated ability to influence without authority and drive cross-team alignment
• 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
• Ability to collaborate with a global team

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction industry
• Cloud services experience with AWS strongly preferred (EC2, ECS, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, DynamoDB, RDS)
• Database architecture and technologies: Snowflake, relational, NoSQL
• Event-driven and streaming architectures: Kafka or Kinesis; exactly-once processing; schema evolution (Avro/Protobuf)
• API and service design: REST, gRPC, GraphQL; versioning and backward compatibility at scale
• Distributed systems and data platforms: microservices, service mesh, event-driven architecture, streaming processing
• Observability/SRE: OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, metrics/SLOs for data services
• Knowledge graphs/semantic modeling (nice-to-have): RDF/OWL, property graphs, or feature stores for ML
• Experience designing and integrating AI systems and agents in enterprise environments; familiarity with Model Context Protocol (MCP) and tool/plugin ecosystems
• Hands-on with RAG architectures: embeddings, vector stores, chunking, re-ranking, and retrieval evaluation
• Experience with agentic orchestration frameworks (e.g., LangGraph, Semantic Kernel) and function/tool calling; Assistants-style APIs
• Data governance, privacy, and safety for AI systems (PII handling, prompt-injection defenses, content filtering, auditability)
• LLM observability and evaluation: offline/online evals, guardrails, prompt/version management and telemetry (e.g., LangSmith, PromptFlow, OpenTelemetry)
• Domain-specific AI for AEC (nice-to-have): extracting structure from BIM/IFC and construction docs; CAD/point-cloud processing

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About Autodesk / À Propos D’Autodesk

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