Senior Director, Engineering, Analytics Data

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Position Overview

Do you love sitting at the intersection of data, technology, and people? Are you a big data expert and have experience building petabyte scale data lakes and data warehouses? Do you enjoy working within the AWS ecosystem and other cutting-edge technologies? Most importantly, do you challenge yourself to make it simple for people to derive insights from data, no matter the scale?

Autodesk is seeking a Senior Director of Engineering to lead our big data platform efforts, scale our next generation data lake, and help our employees easily leverage data analytics and machine learning to create better outcomes for our customers.

Staying on top of the latest innovations around data systems and flows 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 data systems and services that scale to meet the needs of our business. Our team is versatile, polyglot, and cross-functional. We work in AWS, Snowflake, Azure, using Python, Java, C++, javascript, SQL, Json, Presto, Spark, Kafka, Flink and much more. The team is geographically dispersed, and values transparency, collaborative communication and cooperation.

This is a Senior Director-level role within the Analytics Data leadership team and provides a unique opportunity to drive innovation and transformational change with our employees and how they create value from data. A successful candidate will not only have the technical expertise to drive a compelling big data strategy but will also possess the business acumen and gravitas to inspire people to bring that strategy to life.

As this role oversees a global organization, you will work across multiple time zones and will travel up to 15% of the time for in-person meetings such as conferences, team offsites, and customer visits. This position has a preference to be hybrid to our San Francisco office or pacific time zone is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Execution of platform and domain architecture for Analytics Data systems and related components of the Analytics Data Platform

• Influencing and collaborating with stakeholders and teammates to deeply understand requirements for software architecture and implementation

• Interpret both internal and external customer requirements and execute on architectural models that will operate at large scale and high-performance

• Work with a global team of engineers to build data ingestion, data management, and data insight frameworks that emphasize a platform mentality and utilize AWS and other best of breed data offerings

• Engage with the rest of the Autodesk technical community to evangelize, defend and adapt how to best produce and consume big data as it aligns to the company’s continuing digital transformation

• Drive implementation to ensure non-functional requirements such as availability, scalability, reliability, security, compliance, governance is all in place

• Passion for following and incorporating emerging trends in big data and AI technology

Minimum Qualifications

• Highly technical systems driver with 15+ years of big data platform experience: APIs, front-end, backend, data warehouses and lakes, persistence, microservices, ETLs, Stream processing, data for AI, data quality, governance and security, Analytics/CDPs, Cloud Infrastructure management/IaaS/PaaS

• Excellent verbal and written communications skills are a must have, as well as the ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations and virtual teams

• Strong leadership, problem solving, communication, and influencing skills

• Ability to understand complex business requirements and quickly and iteratively execute against them in a highly matrixed environment

• Strong experience in API and Pub/Sub architecture with hands on implementation experience at scale

• Strong experience with real-time streaming architecture and technologies like Kafka, Spark-streaming and Flink

• Experience serving as Engineering Director for applications on cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure)

• Experience building and operating big data query engines (such as Spark, Presto, Hive), databases (such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Dynamo), and data warehouses (such as Snowflake, Redshift)

• Deep knowledge of foundation infrastructure requirements such as Networking, Storage, and Hardware Optimization with hands-on experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Preferred Qualifications

• An advanced degree in computer science, MIS, engineering, or related discipline

• Track record of implementing AWS services in a variety of environments, from startups to large enterprises

• Deep understanding of data ingestion patterns (for both event based and structural data) and understanding of related concepts (such as data cataloging and data lineage, etc.)

• Demonstrated industry leadership in the fields of data warehousing, data science and data processing

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!

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 is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package. For U.S.-based roles, we expect a starting base salary between $210,800 and $341,000. Offers are based on the candidate’s experience and geographic location, and may exceed this range. In addition to base salaries, our compensation package may include 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.

Diversity & Belonging

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