Senior Manager, Architecture

Role Overview

• Own the end-to-end platform architecture: data models, API design, integration patterns, infrastructure strategy, and non-functional requirements
• Design knowledge representation and retrieval approaches that make consulting expertise trustworthy, versioned, and governable across its full lifecycle
• Design service layers that enable the platform to serve both human-facing applications and programmatic consumers
• Evaluate build-versus-buy decisions for platform capabilities, recommending where custom development adds value versus leveraging existing services
• Design integration approaches with Autodesk's broader platform ecosystem, including enterprise identity and emerging AI infrastructure
• Own platform architecture standards for security, data governance, and SOC2 compliance; partner with corporate security and infrastructure teams on controls implementation and audit readiness
• Define non-functional requirements and reliability standards for the platform; partner with operations teams on monitoring, alerting, and disaster recovery
• Establish architectural governance — design reviews, technical standards, and decision records — that enable engineering velocity
• Own the technical risk register and communicate architectural trade-offs clearly to leadership, with particular attention to knowledge accuracy risk when serving AI-mediated channels
• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of approximately 6 architects and technical specialists while maintaining hands-on involvement in foundational architectural decisions
• Partner with product management to ensure technical architecture serves business goals, and with engineering to ensure designs are buildable and maintainable
• Collaborate with the Content & Knowledge team on knowledge data model and ingestion requirements — own how it's stored, indexed, and served
• Represent platform technical direction to stakeholders across Technical Advisory, IT, and Autodesk's platform engineering organization

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in software architecture, platform engineering, or technical leadership with progressive responsibility
• Demonstrated experience designing and scaling cloud-native, multi-tenant SaaS platforms from early stage through production
• Deep expertise in platform architecture: API design, event-driven systems, and cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Experience designing systems that store, govern, and serve structured or semi-structured content to multiple consumer types
• Strong understanding of security architecture and compliance frameworks (SOC2, data governance)
• Experience leading or managing teams of senior technical contributors while remaining hands-on
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent professional experience.

Tech Stack

• AWS
• Azure
• Cloud
• Google Cloud Platform

Benefits

• From health and financial benefits to time away and everyday wellness, we give Autodeskers the best, so they can do their best work.