Senior Manager, Architecture

Autodesk

Senior Manager, Architecture at Autodesk delivering technical leadership for scalable digital consulting products. Overseeing architecture and integration strategy in cloud-native SaaS platforms.

Posted 4/27/2026full-timeDenver • California, Colorado, Missouri • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $120,100 - $215,380 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudGoogle Cloud Platform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

What you’ll need

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.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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

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Hard Skills & Tools

platform architectureAPI designcloud-nativemulti-tenant SaaSevent-driven systemsdata modelsintegration patternsnon-functional requirementssecurity architecturedisaster recovery

Soft Skills

leadershipmentoringcommunicationcollaborationtechnical risk managementarchitectural governancedecision makingstakeholder engagementteam managementproblem solving