Job Requisition ID #

26WD98081

Position Overview

Autodesk is changing how the world is designed and made. Our technology powers innovation across architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, media, and entertainment-helping customers solve complex challenges and create a more sustainable future.

Autodesk is seeking a Principal Architect - Cloud Integration & Platform Engineering to join the Business Systems and Applications Engineering organization within the Finance domain. In this role, you will provide technical leadership for Autodesk's enterprise integration ecosystem, shaping the strategy, architecture, and evolution of platforms that connect critical business systems and enable scalable business operations.

As a senior technical leader, you will partner with engineering, platform, security, and business teams to drive modernization initiatives, establish engineering standards, and influence technology decisions across Finance and other enterprise domains.

Principal Responsibilities

Define and drive the long-term architecture strategy for Autodesk's enterprise integration platform, enabling secure, scalable, resilient, and cloud-native integrations across Finance and business-critical systems.

Lead modernization initiatives that transform legacy and middleware-based integrations into AWS-native, event-driven, and serverless architectures.

Establish enterprise architecture standards, integration patterns, governance frameworks, and engineering guardrails that improve platform consistency, scalability, and developer productivity.

Partner with engineering, platform, security, and business stakeholders to align technology strategy with business outcomes and operational excellence objectives.

Drive platform reliability, observability, resiliency, and disaster recovery capabilities by defining standards for monitoring, tracing, incident management, and operational readiness.

Define and evolve platform engineering capabilities, Infrastructure as Code standards, CI/CD frameworks, and reusable engineering platforms that improve developer productivity and operational excellence.

Lead architecture reviews, technical strategy discussions, and cross-functional design decisions across multiple engineering teams.

Mentor senior engineers fostering engineering excellence and helping scale technical leadership across the organization.

Minimum Qualifications

10+ years of experience designing enterprise-scale cloud-native distributed systems, integration platforms, and event-driven architectures with deep expertise in AWS.

Experience modernizing enterprise integration platforms from legacy middleware technologies into cloud-native and event-driven architectures

Proven experience building and operating serverless and event-driven architectures using:Lambda, API Gateway, Event Bridge, SQS/SNS, S3, Glue, Step Functions, DynamoDB, IAM, CloudWatch, and related AWS services.

Experience leading architecture reviews and defining cloud architecture standards, reusable infrastructure modules, engineering guardrails, and shared platform capabilities.

Hands-on experience defining and implementing resiliency, disaster recovery, failover, and operational excellence standards for enterprise-scale cloud platforms

Extensive experience implementing CI/CD automation using Jenkins or similar DevOps tooling.

Hands-on experience designing and implementing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, AWS CDK, CloudFormation,and/or Serverless Framework in enterprise environments

Experience driving observability, production operations, incident response, root cause analysis, and MTTR reduction using logs, metrics, and tracing platforms such asDynatrace, Splunk, Grafana, CloudWatch, or similar observability platforms.

Hands-on experience developing cloud-native services, automation, and integration solutions using Python, Node.js, Java, or similar programming languages.

Experience with application containerization and deployment on AWS cloud platforms using technologies such as Docker, ECS, or Kubernetes

Preferred Qualifications

AWS Solution Architect certification preferred.

Familiarity with GenAI/RAG/MCP.

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About Autodesk

Welcome to Autodesk! Amazing things are created every day with our software - from the greenest buildings and cleanest cars to the smartest factories and biggest hit movies. We help innovators turn their ideas into reality, transforming not only how things are made, but what can be made.

We take great pride in our culture here at Autodesk - it's at the core of everything we do. Our culture guides the way we work and treat each other, informs how we connect with customers and partners, and defines how we show up in the world.

When you're an Autodesker, you can do meaningful work that helps build a better world designed and made for all. Ready to shape the world and your future Join us!

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