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Engineering Director of Platforms
Autodesk
San Francisco, CA, United States
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Engineering Director of Platforms
Location:San Francisco/San Rafael
Job Function: Software Engineering, Enterprise Applications and Platform Engineering (EAPE)
Are you looking for a high energy team where you can make a direct contribution to transforming IT into an Engineering organization? Are you looking to join a company with a vision to imagine, design, and create a better world?
We are responsible for delivering capabilities that support our evolving subscriptions business models. We ideate, plan, build and run the foundation for Autodesk’s $2.5B+ business and must be able to scale with Autodesk’s growth to $5B and beyond.
We are not a traditional IT organization, we build engineering platforms that integrate with our customer-facing products and serve our partner eco system. We focus on cloud and integration technologies, methods and architectures. In addition, we are transforming our culture and embracing an engineering focus with key engineering practices such as product management and quality, CI/CD, disciplined agile delivery, and technical debt management.
Autodesk is seeking an Engineering Director of Platformsto join the Enterprise Applications & Engineering Platforms team and be part of the larger Enterprise Information Services (IT) team.
The Enterprise Platform (EP) teams are chartered with providing APIs to enterprise systems such as SFDC, Siebel, SAP, Workday. The modern data APIs we are building rely on database objects that can be served up as CRUD. The primary directive is to build for objects that will survive the Business Transformation Model for 2020. Example of objects are Assets, Contracts, Accounts, etc.
Every year, we rollout new consumption business models in the cloud and enhance our subscription offerings. Our finance capabilities grow as the company pivots from channel sales to direct sales. We are reinventing the operations functions that are customer-facing and driving customer experience. We are also applying new capabilities like big data systems combined with an ecosystem of vendor-provided and internally-developed systems capabilities.
Responsibilities:
• Influence at C-staff levels in the organization, innovate and pitch API Governance.
• Provide capability and architecture vision and direction to the team.
• Inspire and motivate teams and peers to explore new areas, roles and competitive advantage opportunities for EAPE.
• Build relationships with the Forge platform teams.
• Evaluate and prioritize strategic investment opportunities based on business value and alignment to corporate goals.
• Build collaborative relationships with key executives through thought leadership.
• Market our teams and services to the rest of the company.
• Manage teams of architects, engineers and testers responsible for Autodesk’s platforms and APIs.
• Work with your teams to help understand requirements, evaluate new capabilities and architecture, design for the customer experience first.
• Drive decisions on trade-offs and deliver high quality applications with minimal technical debt.
• Negotiate strategic contracts with vendors.
• Manage a budget of $5M/annually and a team of 30+ employees and consultants/managed services.
• Build and foster a high performance culture, mentor team members and provide your team with the tools and motivation to make things happen.
Requirements:
• Experience influencing at C-staff levels
• 10-15 years managing global agile engineering teams; full time, contract and outsourced staff
• Proven ability to manage and resolve complex and ambiguous technical issues
• Expert experience with Scrum and agile development processes
• Experience with CI/CD and DevOps
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• BS or MS in Computer Science or related technical field
Direct technical experience with:
◦ Building Web Services and RESTful data APIs to enterprise systems - SAP, Oracle, Workday, NetSuite, SFDC or Siebel
◦ Deploying applications on SAAS
◦ Application monitoring tools, log analytical tools, security tools like Dynatrace, Splunk, Apigee
◦ Creating highly scalable, fault tolerant applications
As the ideal candidate, you are excited about the opportunity to make a difference at a large scale. You have a vision. You have led global teams to the delivery of highly performant, modern cloud services and have demonstrated deep, hands on experience in the cloud. You have expert knowledge in all the modern SAAS technologies and are in line with industry trends. You are comfortable in an agile environment and know how to build a highly effective team. You have worked with many different resource fulfillment environments including direct staff, managed services, staff augmentation and systems integrators.
As the ideal candidate:
• You are a natural leader with a vision
• You know how to motivate and inspire your agile teams to be thought leaders
• You understand your job is to sometimes stay out of the way
• You can spot and attract amazing talent
• You have a passion for being a mentor and a teacher
• You have a sense of humor and don’t take yourself too seriously
• You take risks and can make quick decisions
• You can take vague requirements, clarify and drive them to execution
• You have a passion for continuous integration and continuous delivery
About Autodesk
Autodesk, Inc., is the world’s leading Software Company for the manufacturing, building, media, and entertainment fields. As a global leader in 3D design, engineering, and entertainment software, Autodesk’s vision is to imagine, design, and create a better world.
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