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Position Overview

As a Principal Solution Architect, you will be a technical subject matter expert with experience in defining, automating, and integrating technical/functional Autodesk solutions that create competitive advantage for companies in the industry space. You'll work closely with our customers' leadership teams to architect and design innovative solutions with specifications that can be traced to business strategy and success metrics.

Employing industry standard methodologies and frameworks, you'll lead a team to build solutions that will provide help our customers achieve their business objectives. These solutions will improve and automate their business processes and workflows, help them make their data a strategic business asset and, enable insights and efficiencies using AI and ML. You will help educate customers create a clear vision on future business capabilities, advise them on key architecture considerations, and inform them on implantation strategies and plans including estimating effort and resources required. You will help customer define a clear path to successfully develop, integrate, and deploy new solutions.

Responsibilities

• Define Software and IT System architecture by evaluating and translating customer business needs

• Define Solution architecture and/or validate customer's architecture feasibility

• Designing Data Architectures that support effective data definition, data management, and data integration

• Define data requirements and implement data management tooling enabling the integration and deployment of AI models

• Creates a path to develop, integrate and deploy Autodesk solutions into enterprise

• Keeps abreast with technology trends (innovative and disruptive) affecting our customers

• Understand data pipelines to promote efficient enterprise data flow

• Understand document storage and engineering change management best practices

• Understand data cleansing and data mining strategies to enable ML and AI solutions

• Provides input to stakeholders for arriving at best possible solution

• Provides insight into enterprise impact from proposed solution

• Educates and highlights key architecture considerations to implement solution

• Provides traceability from business requirement to solution components

• Gathers input on non-functional requirements for solution

• May act as liaison between customer IT and Business stakeholders within the scope of solution

• Estimates effort and resources required

• Enables customer to engage in validation of business needs and critical components

• Validates Autodesk API capabilities to be used in the solution

• Provides look-forward view of solution wireframe

• Be effective voice of Autodesk solutions in various outlets such as conferences, whitepapers and blogs

• Gives visibility of complete dependencies of People, Process and Technology

• Contributes towards Customer's Change Management framework and identifies division of labor

• Gathers and internalizes rich customer feedback, using it to generate innovative solutions that fill core or future needs.

• Acts as "Trusted Advisor" providing technical and thought leadership to the customer to guide them to success

• Works with project managers and project sponsors to provide enterprise solutions to specific business problems and issues across many domains

• Collaborates with the broader architecture community to ensure that their solutions align with target architectures and technology roadmaps

• Prepares and presents project documentation for the customer stakeholders

• Evaluates design approaches, makes architectural recommendations, and implements improvements to adoption strategies

• Present "point of view" on implementation roadmap to multiple types of stakeholders

• Develop "reference architectures" and promote re-use in implementing Autodesk technologies

• Lead and Mentor developers and 3rd party consultants

• Mentor and coach team members as we collectively try to improve and grow in our profession

• Participate in code reviews to ensure new code conforms to highest standards

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering or Mechanical Engineering or similar field

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with relevant BS degree, or 8+ years with advanced degree

• Understanding of Manufacturing tools and processes including CAD, PDM, and PLM.

• Database Knowledge: In-depth understanding of database structure principles

• Experience working on large scale, customer facing, web and cloud applications

• Strong .NET skills. Our language of choice on client and server side is .NET

• Knowledge of machine learning frameworks like TensorFlow or PyTorch

• Candidate have implemented applications in Cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, Google

• Candidate has Architected solutions to integrate workflow from traditional desktop to cloud applications

• Practical experience building or integrating with RESTful web services

Preferred Qualifications

• SQL Proficiency: Strong skills in SQL.

• Big Data Technologies: Experience with big data technologies such as Hadoop or Spark.

• Data Warehousing and ETL: Understanding of data warehousing and ETL tools1.

• Strong experience with Amazon Web Services OR Azure

• Data Visualization: Familiarity with data visualization tools like PowerBI or Tableau.

• Experience in solutions in Manufacturing Industry including CAM and factory layout

• Knowledge of or Certified in Architecture Assessment Methods like TOGAF

• Presented and acted as "advisor" to stakeholders in past job history

• Experience with Autodesk Inventor, Autodesk Fusion, and Fusion Manage

• Strong verbal and written communication skills

• Leadership experience as a Team Lead, Tech Lead, or Architect in previous roles

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