Mgr, Solution Engineering

Autodesk is a company focused on building a diverse workplace and an inclusive culture. The Manager – Solution Engineering leads a critical engineering function responsible for productizing consulting IP and scaling digital advisory capabilities, while driving multi-year strategy and managing multiple workstreams and senior engineers/architects.

Responsibilities:

• Build, lead, and evolve a high-performing engineering organization
• Establish clear team structure, roles, and growth paths
• Lead performance management, succession planning, and talent development
• Create an inclusive, accountable, and high-ownership culture
• Coach leaders and senior SAs on outcome-driven execution OKR & Execution Excellence
• Define and operationalize quarterly and annual OKRs aligned to Technical Advisory strategy
• Translate strategic priorities into measurable engineering outcomes
• Implement structured review cadences and progress tracking
• Drive alignment between individual, team, and organizational OKRs
• Use metrics and data to continuously improve delivery predictability and business impact
• Own and drive the multi-quarter Solution Engineering roadmap
• Scale the Tools Program lifecycle from submission through standardization, hardening, validation, and publication
• Improve time-to-productization and operational maturity
• Define and track KPIs such as: Tool adoption and activation rates, Platform scalability, Reliability and incident reduction, Engineering throughput and cycle time
• Partner with Consulting, Sales, and Product leadership to align investment with business value
• Provide architectural oversight across advisory tools and platform capabilities
• Ensure compliance with Autodesk technical, security, privacy, and operational standards
• Champion modern cloud-native, API-first, and scalable design principles
• Drive DevOps maturity, automation, CI/CD, and observability practices
• Lead modernization efforts to convert bespoke engagement artifacts into production-ready services
• Guide build vs. buy decisions and promote reuse of inner-source components
• Lead team members to adopt AI tools responsibly in their job functions
• Establish strong SDLC governance and quality frameworks
• Ensure clear ownership models, SLAs, and lifecycle management
• Oversee risk management, root cause analysis, and mitigation planning
• Drive predictability across multiple concurrent initiatives
• Manage resource planning aligned to capacity and strategic priorities

Requirements:

• Bachelor's or master's degree in engineering, Computer Science, or related field
• 12+ years of experience in software engineering, solution architecture, or technical consulting
• 7+ years of progressive people leadership experience
• Proven experience operating at organizational leadership level (managing senior engineers and/or managers)
• Demonstrated success implementing and scaling OKR-based execution frameworks
• Strong background in: Full-stack engineering and API-driven architecture
• Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• DevOps, CI/CD, automation, and observability
• Distributed systems and scalable service design
• Experience leading multiple concurrent, cross-functional initiatives
• Strong executive-level communication and stakeholder management skills
• Experience productizing consulting IP into scalable SaaS or platform solutions
• Experience within Professional Services, Technical Advisory, or Enterprise SaaS environments
• Strong understanding of adoption, retention, and recurring revenue drivers
• Experience leading cloud modernization or platform transformation initiatives
• Financial acumen and experience managing budget or investment trade-offs
• Exposure to AI/ML-enabled solution development