Distinguished Architect, Admin Services

Autodesk; Boston (MA); Remote; USD 189,000 - 306,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Distinguished Architect to join their AEC division. This pivotal role involves leading the architectural design and implementation of a shared service for project administration, ensuring scalability and performance across products. You will collaborate closely with other architects, define technical strategies, and mentor junior team members. With a focus on innovation and transformation, this position offers the chance to shape the future of a leading software company and contribute to meaningful projects that impact the construction industry. Join a culture that values diversity and empowers employees to thrive.

Benefits

Health Benefits

Financial Benefits

Time Away

Wellness Programs

Annual Cash Bonuses

Stock Grants

Qualifications

• 12+ years in software engineering or architect roles.
• Experience with cloud-native solutions and design.

Responsibilities

• Lead architectural design for Common Project Admin service.
• Ensure scalable and performant designs for Autodesk products.
• Mentor junior architects and lead architectural council sessions.

Skills

Software Engineering

Architectural Design

Distributed Systems

Cloud-Native Solutions

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Technical Leadership

Fault Tolerant Systems

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science

Tools

Node.js

Terraform

Postgres

AWS

Job description

Job Requisition ID #

25WD86884

Position Overview

Autodesk is seeking an experienced Distinguished Architect to join our AEC (Architecture, Engineering, and Construction) division. Our distributed team is dedicated to solving large-scale challenges in the construction industry. As a Distinguished Architect, you will identify, assess, prioritize and most importantly drive the transformation of Autodesk’s Administration system into a scalable, extensible, robust enterprise offering.

As the senior-most architect for the Admin domain, you will define the technical strategy, partner with peer architects and platform leaders, and own the long-term evolution of foundational services that touch every user and project in Autodesk’s cloud. This is not a thought-leadership-only role; you’ll be expected to drive alignment, make difficult tradeoffs, and shepherd platform evolution with empathy for both legacy consumers and forward-looking strategy.

Location: Seeking candidates in the San Francisco Bay area, but open to remote or within a commutable distance of an Autodesk office. 0-15% travel may be required.

Responsibilities

1. Lead the architectural design and implementation of Common Project Admin - a shared service for administration of users, roles, licenses, and permissions - that will serve all of Autodesk’s products.
2. Rearchitect entitlements to allow for various product bundling and provisioning options.
3. Define project structure and membership to be compatible with Autodesk’s ecosystem of products and future expansions.
4. Ensure designs are scalable, performant, and future-proof. Demonstrate theoretical and empirical evidence that proposed designs and implementations can withstand several orders of magnitude of growth.
5. With Construction as Customer #1 for Common Project Admin, ensure the backward-compatibility and product fit for the ACS Admin use cases.
6. Closely partner with other architects on solutions that leverage underlying platform services. Where changes are needed to those services, work closely with those peers on a roadmap.
7. Closely partner with other architects in the organization on taxonomies and shared system models.
8. Lead Architect Council sessions for AEC Construction, facilitating the process of proposal and approval of cross-cutting projects that have architectural impacts.
9. Mentor junior architects and tech leads in Admin and adjacent team, reviewing and approving their work.

Minimum Qualifications

1. Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, or equivalent related field.
2. 12+ years of experience as a software engineer / architect capacity.
3. Self-directed with an ability to complete work strategically and efficiently.
4. Experience working with fault tolerant, distributed systems.
5. Ability to work cross-functionally with other teams.
6. Experience working with tools and technologies including, but not limited to, Node.js, Terraform, Postgres, AWS.
7. Experience architecting cloud-native solutions and authoring complex system designs.
8. Proven ability to lead development teams from a technical perspective—partnering with managers, setting technical direction, unblocking engineers, and guiding design and delivery.
9. Hands-on experience across the software delivery lifecycle: writing production code, operating systems in cloud environments, participating in on-call rotations, managing incidents, and leading postmortems.

Preferred Qualifications

1. Proven experience working at a large-cap SaaS company.
2. Experience designing, building, managing, and retiring platforms with a wide array of consumers.
3. Demonstrated innovation through patents, publications, conference presentations, etc.

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About Autodesk

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We take great pride in our culture here at Autodesk – our Culture Code is at the core of everything we do. Our values and ways of working help our people thrive and realize their potential, which leads to even better outcomes for our customers.

When you’re an Autodesker, you can be your whole, authentic self and do meaningful work that helps build a better future for all. Ready to shape the world and your future? Join us!

Benefits

From health and financial benefits to time away and everyday wellness, we give Autodeskers the best, so they can do their best work. Learn more about our benefits in the U.S. by visiting https://benefits.autodesk.com/

Salary transparency

Salary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package. For U.S.-based roles, we expect a starting base salary between $189,000 and $305,800. Offers are based on the candidate’s experience and geographic location, and may exceed this range. In addition to base salaries, we also have a significant emphasis on annual cash bonuses, commissions for sales roles, stock grants, and a comprehensive benefits package.

Equal Employment Opportunity

At Autodesk, we're building a diverse workplace and an inclusive culture to give more people the chance to imagine, design, and make a better world. Autodesk is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic. We also consider for employment all qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

Diversity & Belonging

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