Senior Manager, Architecture

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Position Overview

Autodesk's Technical Advisory organization is building a digital consulting platform that systematizes implementation expertise from hundreds of enterprise technology engagements into scalable digital products and services. The platform must handle structured knowledge assets, consulting tools, analytics, and integrated service delivery across Autodesk's customer base in architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, and media and entertainment.

The Senior Manager, Architecture will serve as the technical leadership anchor for this platform, reporting to the Director of Platform & Productization within Global Delivery & Solutions. You will own the platform architecture and non-functional requirements — system design, integration strategy, knowledge data models, and architectural standards. You will partner with corporate security, infrastructure, and platform teams on shared concerns including compliance, observability, and enterprise identity.

This role requires someone who can think beyond building a traditional web application. The platform must serve implementation knowledge to human users and increasingly to AI-powered tools and workflows. As how customers consume consulting expertise evolves, the architecture must be flexible enough to support that evolution while keeping knowledge trustworthy and well-governed.

In the first year, you will deliver a reference architecture and phased technical roadmap, validate the knowledge data model, and establish production readiness standards.

You will lead a team of architects and technical specialists while also operating as a hands-on technical contributor on foundational decisions. You will partner closely with product management to translate business requirements into technical strategy, with engineering to ensure buildability and operational readiness, and with content and knowledge teams on knowledge representation requirements.

Responsibilities

Platform Architecture and Technical Strategy

·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

Security, Compliance, and Production Readiness

·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

Team and Cross-Functional Leadership

·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

Minimum Qualifications

·10+ years of experience in software architecture, platform engineering