Position Overview
Autodesk is seeking a highly motivated, experienced Senior Engineering Manager to join our Autodesk IAM Platform team. The Autodesk IAM platform is central to ensuring secure, seamless, and scalable access management across our suite of 150+ Autodesk desktop, mobile, web applications, and smart devices. This platform plays a critical role in managing authentication, authorization, user profiles, and entitlements, serving millions of customers daily and empowering a growing ecosystem of third-party developers and smart devices.
As a Senior Manager of Software Engineering, you will lead and oversee multiple teams of engineers dedicated to advancing our IAM platform. You will be responsible for the strategic direction, technical excellence, and delivery of innovative, secure, and robust IAM solutions. The platform you will help build needs to be highly resilient and available, ensuring that Autodesk’s services are reliable and performant at all times, even under the most demanding conditions.
The ideal candidate has extensive experience leading large teams in the development of modern cloud-based services, particularly in a fast-paced, agile environment. You should have a strong understanding of cloud security and be adept at driving the technical vision and strategy for identity services.
Your leadership will be critical in ensuring that Autodesk’s IAM services remain cutting-edge, resilient, and capable of supporting the evolving needs of our global customer base. You excel in mentoring engineering leaders, fostering a culture of innovation and security, and ensuring the successful delivery of complex, scalable IAM solutions.
Responsibilities
- Lead a team of software engineers to ensure execution and unlock creativity
- Develop staff by coaching, facilitating career aspirations and providing growth opportunities
- Regularly communicate with team members, provide feedback, conduct performance evaluation
- Build collaborative partnerships with the Software Architects, Technical leads, Product Owners, Product Managers and Experience Designers
- Create an inspiring team environment with an open communication culture. Foster continuous improvement and iteration
- Provide insight, feedback, and recommendations to senior management regarding the development, capabilities, and potential of current and future software projects
- Provide leadership to achieve high standards of “done” in areas of quality, security, scalability, user experience
- Aid in designing and building solutions, frameworks, automation, and orchestration for a broad range of applications and infrastructures, including cloud services and desktop solutions
- Collaborate with a geographically dispersed team and stakeholders
- Take complete ownership of the initiative and deliver it end to end while working with various stakeholders
Minimum Qualifications
- BS/MS in engineering, computer science, or equivalent industry experience
- 15+ years of relevant industry experience, with 7+ years of hands-on technical leadership and 7+ years of experience managing development teams
- Previously managed teams of engineers with ownership of high scale, production systems
- Experienced in one or more of the tech stacks and tools that includes AWS, Golang, C#, Python, Java etc
- Experienced in creating telemetry for the service using Splunk, New Relic, Datadog or their equivalents
- Skilled in big picture thinking and a willingness to learn and dive into unfamiliar systems and resolve complex and ambiguous issues both from a business and technical perspective
- Experience working in fast-paced, agile development environments, with a focus on iterative improvement and flexibility
- Proven ability to define and drive the technical vision and strategic direction for complex platforms
- Proven track record of leading large engineering teams with a focus on cloud-based services
- Experience in driving technical excellence and continuous improvement, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, scalable solutions
- Solid understanding of software development lifecycle, principles, practices, and methodologies
- Have insights about common engineering practice challenges and had experience of leading team to fix/improve them
- Willingness to collaborate with colleagues across different time zones which may require limited work outside normal working hours
The Ideal Candidate
- You understand what it takes to deliver scalable and secure IAM solutions
- Ability to define and drive the technical vision and strategic direction for complex platforms.
- Strong understanding of cloud security principles and best practices
- Experience working in fast-paced, agile development environments, with a focus on iterative improvement and flexibility.
- Ability to ensure the IAM platform is highly resilient and available, supporting reliable and performant Autodesk services.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders
