Senior Solution Architect

Job Requisition ID # 26WD95958 Position Overview Autodesk is seeking a Senior Solution Architect to lead architecture and technical design for the Knowledge platform, a cloud-native knowledge and solution delivery platform built on AWS. Workflow Advisory enables Technical Advisory to publish, discover, activate, and scale digital advisory solutions across customers. As part of Solution Engineering, this role will drive the platform’s architecture, scalability, reliability, and extensibility while ensuring alignment with Autodesk security, cloud, and platform standards. This is a hands-on architecture role requiring strong AWS cloud expertise, full-stack engineering depth, and the ability to define and govern scalable reference architectures. You will work closely with engineering teams, product stakeholders, DevOps, security, and consulting teams to build and develop a modern, API-first, cloud-native platform. Key Responsibilities Platform Architecture & Design Define and evolve the target architecture for the Knowledge platform on AWS Design scalable, secure, cloud-native solutions leveraging AWS services Develop and maintain reference architectures and reusable design patterns Lead architectural decision-making using RFC/ADR processes and architecture review boards Ensure platform alignment with Autodesk enterprise architecture standards Document architecture and implementation process to deploy solutions. Guide sprint teams with design suggestions to solve complex problems. Have a learning mindset to shepherd AI assisted approach to improve design and platform design. Cloud & Full-Stack Engineering Leadership Architect and guide implementation of full-stack solutions (frontend, backend, APIs, data layer) Design RESTful and event-driven services using modern backend frameworks (.NET preferred) Lead design of secure, scalable API integrations across internal and external systems Define best practices for frontend frameworks (e.g., React, Angular, Weave) and components like MaterialUI Ensure code quality through architecture reviews and technical mentorship Partner with DevOps teams to establish CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and observability standards AWS Cloud Architecture Design and implement solutions using AWS services such as: Compute (EC2, Lambda, ECS/EKS) Storage (S3) Databases (RDS, PostgreSQL, Redis,GraphDb) Messaging/Eventing (SNS, SQS, EventBridge,PubNub, Step Functions) Monitoring/Observability (CloudWatch, Jenkins, OpenTelemetry, Splunk, Docker Registry) Containerized workloads, Event-driven processing, Background indexing/extraction pipeline, AWS batch processing Concepts like ELT, multi-threaded processing Ensure high availability, scalability, performance optimization, and cost efficiency Implement secure architecture patterns aligned to Autodesk Trust and data governance standards Drive modernization and cloud optimization initiatives Data & Integration Architecture Design robust data models using SQL, Graph and NoSQL databases Architect integration between desktop tools, advisory tools, and cloud services Ensure data privacy, security, and compliance Establish telemetry, analytics, and monitoring strategies to support adoption tracking Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement Work closely with Product Management to translate platform strategy into architectural roadmaps Partner with Solution Engineering teams to productize consulting IP into scalable platform services Collaborate with security, infrastructure, and enterprise architecture teams Present architectural approaches and implementation strategies to technical and business stakeholders Act as trusted advisor to internal teams and external partners Minimum Qualifications Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field 10+ years of software engineering experience Proven experience architecting large-scale, customer-facing cloud applications Strong hands-on experience with AWS cloud services to develop multi-tena ... (truncated, view full listing at source)