Senior Software Development Manager, Data Platform [RJ036]
Work location: San Francisco, California
Wage: $208,202 - $275,000 / per year*
Job Duties:
Plan, direct, or coordinate activities in such fields as electronic data processing, information systems, systems analysis, and computer programming. Direct daily operations of department, analyzing workflow, establishing priorities, developing standards and setting deadlines.
Manage multiple scrum teams, including engineering manager(s) and senior software engineers, responsible for delivering features and functionality on the Autodesk Data Platform to deliver compelling solutions for distributed, realtime systems for BigData, Analytics and Clickstream.Lead and guide the team to build and execute requirements, evaluate new features, and drive technology roadmap decisions. Build collaborative partnerships with product managers, platform architects, technical leads and key individuals within other functional organizations.
Build and foster a high-performance culture across multiple geographical regions, mentor team members and provide team with the tools and motivation to make things happen. Develop and/or approve management plans, track, and ensure tactical execution and adherence to budgets, schedules, plans, and performance.
Lead the execution of the platform strategy following principles of agile methodology and get adoption across the company. Foster team member career growth through regular coaching and mentoring. Expand the scope and impact of the team by making strategic decisions with respect to technology and resourcing at the right time.
Stay abreast with industry trends and ensure that Autodesk remains at the forefront. Collaborate with other senior managers and key internal and external stakeholders to align with overall business objectives. Drive continuous improvement through performance optimization and process improvement.
Lead evaluation of external technology vendors. Make decisions on vendor engagement and technological choices of building or buying software applications. Demonstrate ability to build across different public cloud offerings while balancing spend with business value.
Minimum Requirements: Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field and 10 years of experience in the job offered or in a technical lead/manager-related occupation.
Special Requirements:
Position requires at least 8 years of experience in each of the following skills:
- Lead geographically distributed teams in building streaming infrastructure for distributed, real-time systems for Bigdata, Analytics and Clickstream using Kafka, Hadoop, Flink, Spark, MapReduce etc
- Experience leading software development for cloud with AWS using technologies like Managed Streaming Kafka, Kafka Connect, Glue, S3, EC2 etc.
- Experience as a software development people manager to include: hiring and mentoring software engineers, conducting performance evaluations and providing feedback to team members to foster their professional growth.
- Collaborate with cross-functional partner roles like product manager and platform architects and help drive technology decisions.
- Utilize tools for managing project teams like Jira, Product board, Git, Workday etc , overseeing multiple projects, setting priorities and meeting deadlines.
- Experience communicating on technical and non-technical subjects to peers and executive leadership.
- Manage engineering teams and managers to implement processes that improve security posture of software applications. Lead initiatives to analyze and evaluate external vendors, cloud budget, and improve customer success.
- Demonstrated experience leading and managing engineering teams including hiring, coaching and mentoring engineers and managers.
Position also requires at least some experience or one semester of graduate-level coursework in each of the following:
- Experience implementing Agile practices within engineering team, utilizing knowledge of Agile methodologies like Scrum or Kanban.
- Familiarity with Machine Learning or Data Mining algorithms.
- Full lifecycle software development using Java or Python.
- Knowledge of RDBM databases like Oracle or MySQL and NoSQL databases like MongoDB or Cassandra.
- The starting base salary range for this role is reflected above. Salary is one part of Autodesks competitive package. Offers are based on the candidates experience and geographic location.
TO APPLY: Please email resume to, and indicate job code RJ036. Proof of authorization to work in U.S. is required if hired. The company is an Equal Opportunity Employer and fully supports affirmative action practices.