Principal Solution Architect

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We are seeking an Principal Solution Architect to lead the evolution of Autodesk Consulting’s Intellectual Property platform as an enterprise-ready SaaS product powered by knowledge architecture, AI-enabled capabilities, and future agentic applications.
 
Working across product, engineering, architecture, and consulting teams, you will design the knowledge architecture that connects workflows, data, decisions, and insights across the AEC, MFG, and M&E domains. You will establish the semantic models, knowledge graph capabilities, and platform architecture required to support organizational change management, workflow automation, intelligent decision support, and future agentic applications. 
 
This is an individual contributor role that reports to the Sr. Manager, Architecture.

Responsibilities 

• Define and evolve the architectural vision for Workflow Advisory and related knowledge-driven platform capabilities 

• Design semantic architectures, knowledge models, and knowledge graph capabilities that connect workflows, data, decisions, and insights 

• Define architecture patterns that enable workflow automation, intelligent decision support, and future agentic applications 

• Establish standards for knowledge representation, lifecycle management, governance, and reuse across platforms 

• Translate business workflows into reusable domain models, services, and architectural patterns 

• Design scalable, secure, and resilient cloud-native architectures that support enterprise and customer-facing solutions 

• Ensure platform services, APIs, and knowledge assets are discoverable, composable, and consumable by AI-enabled applications 

• Apply AI and LLM technologies to improve knowledge discovery, workflow execution, and advisory experiences 

• Collaborate with architects and engineering responsible for ensuring architecture meets enterprise security, privacy, compliance, and SOC2 requirements 

• Collaborate with product, engineering, and consulting teams to align architecture investments with business outcomes and technology strategy 

• Drive adoption of architectural standards and reusable platform capabilities across teams 

• Mentor engineers and architects while communicating architectural direction to senior leadership and stakeholders 

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

• 10+ years of experience designing and delivering complex software platforms

• Experience as a Software Architect, Product Architect, Principal Engineer, or equivalent technical leadership role

• Experience designing AI-enabled, knowledge-driven, or workflow-centric software systems

• Experience with knowledge graphs, semantic architectures, ontologies, taxonomies, graph databases, or retrieval systems

• Experience evaluating and implementing AI technologies, including LLMs, RAG architectures, intelligent assistants, or autonomous agent patterns

• Experience leading technical spikes, rapid prototyping efforts, or proof-of-concept development

• Deep understanding of cloud-native architectures, APIs, distributed systems, and modern software engineering practices

• Experience designing secure, privacy-conscious, and trustworthy software platforms that operate within enterprise governance requirements

• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills with the ability to communicate complex ideas to both technical and non-technical audiences

• Willingness and ability to travel internationally up to 15% of the time is required

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About Autodesk

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When you’re an Autodesker, you can do meaningful work that helps build a better world designed and made for all. Ready to shape the world and your future? Join us!

Salary transparency

Salary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package. For Poland based roles, we expect a starting base salary between 238,000 PLN and 348,700 PLN. Offers are based on the candidate’s experience and geographic location, and may exceed this range. In addition to base salaries, our compensation package may include annual cash bonuses, commissions for sales roles, stock grants, and a comprehensive benefits package.

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