Software Architect

Autodesk; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading software company in Sheffield is seeking an experienced Software Architect to elevate its AEC Platform Data organization. The role involves designing systems that enhance data capabilities across teams. Candidates should have over 10 years as a Software Architect in cloud environments, demonstrating expertise in API design, database architecture, and cloud services, preferably AWS. Join a company at the forefront of innovation, shaping the future of how AEC professionals use data.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Annual bonuses

Comprehensive benefits package

Qualifications

• 10+ years as a Software Architect in data‑intensive environments.
• Experience in the AEC industry is a plus.
• Ability to convey complex ideas concisely.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve architecture for data platforms.
• Establish standards and drive cross-team adoption.
• Lead architectural governance and design reviews.

Skills

Software design and architecture

Cloud services (AWS)

API design

Database architecture

Strong understanding of data modeling

Collaboration with global teams

Excellent verbal and written communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

Big data tools and frameworks

Kafka

RDBMS and NoSQL databases

Job description

Autodesk's Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) Platform Data organization is seeking an experienced Software Architect to join its centralized Architecture team. In this role, you will be responsible for designing and building the systems and services that power cross-cutting data capabilities across both engineering teams in our organization: Information Lifecycle and Data Authoring, 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 centralized Architecture team, you will be at the front‑end of designing the next generation of capabilities for the Autodesk Forma Industry Cloud. You'll collaborate with software architects in the centralized Architecture 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, central Architecture team.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve cross-team architecture for data platforms and services spanning Information Lifecycle and Data Authoring
• 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

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, 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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