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Job Requisition ID #
24WD81977
Position Overview
Autodesk is looking for a Data Architect that can design the models and system flows that define how data persists and moves between several enterprise systems and be a trusted advisor to solution architects and engineering teams.
Keeping a keen eye on the bigger picture, you will define and maintain high-level conceptual models, logical models, and ensure proper implementation across operational and analytical domains in collaboration with Product & Engineering Managers. You will influence the handling of data across end-to-end flows that traverse various processes and systems to ensure that it arrives fit for purpose and to serve its intended business use cases.
Staying on top of the latest innovations around data principles like data mesh and tools that help orchestrate data pipelines must be a passion of yours. As part of a larger enterprise ecosystem, our engineering teams will look to you for guidance on how to build modern cloud-based, event driven data systems and common data services that scale to meet the needs of our business.
You will be joining a team of architects who is tasked with taking Autodesk through a digital transformation that focuses on a taking existing and new business models to a new modern tech stack. The teams you will engage with are geographically dispersed, and value transparent, collaborative communication and cooperation. At times you will need to flex your schedule to accommodate global time zones.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain data models, conceptual & logical, in partnership with business and systems architects
- Collaborate with systems architects and engineering to design data integrations ensuring data accuracy & completeness
- Work closely with stakeholders and other architects to adequately understand requirements for collecting, storing and sharing data across the organization
- Influence architecture decisions and direction according to business drivers and application of modern technologies and methodologies
- Work with product managers to build requirements and guide engineering teams to implement solution based on DataOps principles
- Engage with operational and analytical engineering teams to ensure proper translation of logical models into physical models
- Review integrations to ensure proper implementation of data contracts based on logical data models
- Guide data product managers to build proper analytical models for BI, M/L and personalization use cases
- Maintaining a vision and strategy for applying best practices from the industry to improve the quality of data and the way it is consumed
- Validate end-to-end data flows as data moves through enterprise systems
- Work closely with product management and eng teams to address any defects or gaps resulting in poor data quality
- Provide research and business analysis to assist business architects to realize upcoming initiatives
- Ensure non-functional requirements such as availability, scalability, reliability, security, compliance, governance are all in place
Minimum Qualifications
- 10+ years' experience delivering software with a strong focus on data
- Experience working with a cross-section of data integrations (APIs, front-end, backend, security, data, service, persistence layers, automated testing, etc.)
- Familiar with various methods of Data Modeling, from conceptual to logical to physical
- Understanding of various data persistence formats, structured, unstructured, operational & analytical
- Domain knowledge of eCommerce, Data Warehousing, Financial, Account CRM, and Financial ERP systems would be a strong plus
- Operational/Analytical Master Data Management experience
Preferred Qualifications
- Demonstrable experience as an architect for a large organization in major software domains
- Expertise in information and integration architecture and technologies such as API (REST/SOAP) and Pub/Sub architecture implementations at scale
- Experience with AWS (RDS, Redshift, DynamoDB), SQL (SQL Server, PostgreSQL), Snowflake, and ingestion transform tools like Fivetran, DBT
- Experience with real-time streaming and AI/ML data pipelines and modeling
- Experience serving as architect for applications on cloud infrastructure
- Strong leadership, problem solving, communication, and influencing skills
- Comfortable working both individually and as part of a highly collaborative team
- Experience with Compliance and Data governance (GDPR, SOX, etc.)
- Outstanding organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills (verbal/presentation/written)
- Ability to facilitate dynamic meetings and discussions
- Strong Business Acumen, can express and model the purpose of data in business context
- Ability to mentor and guide data engineers
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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 - 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 $159,100 and $257,400. 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.
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