Location: EMEA – United Kingdom – Offsite/Home
Employment Type: Full-time
Job Requisition ID: 26WD94957

About Autodesk

Autodesk is a global leader in design and engineering software, empowering innovators to bring ideas to life across industries. From sustainable buildings and smart factories to blockbuster movies, Autodesk helps professionals turn concepts into reality. The company fosters a culture of technical excellence, innovation, and continuous learning, emphasizing diversity, inclusion, and meaningful work that shapes a better world.

Position Summary

Autodesk’s Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) Data organization is seeking a seasoned Software Architect to design and build systems powering cross-cutting data capabilities and their integration with Autodesk’s existing and future AEC products.

The successful candidate will focus on designing and evolving AEC data schemas—the semantic models and structures that enable seamless interoperability across design, construction, and operations workflows. This role requires a passion for data modeling, experience with complex system architectures, and a drive to transform how AEC professionals use data to capture knowledge, inform decisions, and deliver projects.

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Reporting to the Distinguished Architect of the AEC Data team, this individual contributor role will collaborate with architects, domain experts, and product teams across Revit, Civil 3D, AutoCAD, Autodesk Construction Cloud, and Autodesk Forma.

Main Duties & Responsibilities

System & Software Architecture

Define and evolve cross-team architecture for AEC data platforms and services.
Design distributed systems including APIs, event streams, and data pipelines

Data Schema Design & Governance

Design, document, and evolve data schemas for buildings, infrastructure, spaces, systems, and components
Ensure extensibility, backward compatibility, and semantic representation of AEC domain knowledge.
Maintain schema versioning, deprecation policies, and migration patterns

Standards & Interoperability

Establish standards, reference architectures, and reusable components
Lead architectural decision records and design reviews
Implement schema mappings between industry standards (IFC, COBie, CityGML, LandXML) and Autodesk’s internal models

API & Service Design

Design REST, GraphQL, and gRPC APIs, ensuring backward compatibility at scale
Define serialization formats such as JSON Schema, Avro, or Protobuf

Reliability, Performance & Cross-Team Collaboration

Ensure system reliability, security, and performance with SLOs and observability measures
Partner with product and platform teams to align roadmaps, validate real-world use cases, and drive adoption
Communicate architectures effectively using diagrams and executive-level narratives

Desired Candidate

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
10+ years of experience as a Software Architect in data-intensive cloud environments
Strong expertise in cloud services, API design, database architecture, and big data frameworks
Proficiency in data modeling, schema design, versioning, and evolution strategies
Excellent knowledge of software design and architecture patterns
Ability to influence cross-team alignment and communicate complex ideas clearly

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in the AEC domain with familiarity with industry standards (IFC, COBie, gbXML, CityGML)
Cloud experience, particularly AWS (EC2, ECS, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, DynamoDB, RDS)
Expertise in Snowflake, relational, or NoSQL databases
Familiarity with event-driven architectures (Kafka, Kinesis) and schema registries
REST, gRPC, GraphQL API experience at scale
Knowledge of semantic technologies, knowledge graphs, or BIM systems (Revit families)

About the AEC Data Team

The AEC Data team builds foundational data infrastructure supporting Autodesk’s vision for connected construction. Their work enables seamless data flow across Autodesk products and third-party integrations, enhancing decision-making and project delivery for AEC professionals.

Why Join Autodesk

Shape the future of AEC data platforms and standards globally
Design systems and schemas used by millions of professionals worldwide
Collaborate with world-class architects and engineers across Autodesk’s portfolio
Contribute to open standards and industry-wide interoperability initiatives
Be part of a team valuing technical excellence, innovation, and continuous learning

Compensation & Benefits

Autodesk provides a competitive compensation package based on experience and geographic location. This may include base salary, annual cash bonuses, stock grants, and comprehensive benefits.

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Application Process

Interested candidates are invited to apply via Autodesk’s careers page to submit their application. Please ensure all required documents are included to be considered for the position.

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