Autodesk · 4 hours ago
Sr Principal Data Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$148K/yr - $239K/yr
10+ years expAutodesk is a global leader in software innovation, and they are seeking a Senior Principal Data Engineer to enhance their Enterprise Data Engineering team. This role involves leading the delivery of advanced data platform services and collaborating with various departments to drive data-driven decision-making processes.
3D TechnologyArchitectureConstructionManufacturingSoftware Engineering
Responsibilities
Work with multiple scrum teams (each has 7-9 engineers), and act as a force multiplier by coaching, mentoring, and developing high-performing data engineering teams and individuals
Establish and uphold high standards for code quality, readability, and maintainability across multiple engineering teams
Quickly and confidently navigate large, unfamiliar codebases, making sound technical decisions in ambiguous or evolving environments
Own and drive the data engineering approach to data quality, including framework design, enforcement, and ongoing improvement
Lead engineering teams through complex production incidents and outages, driving effective triage, root cause analysis, and durable remediation
Guide teams toward mature, high-performing DataOps practices that improve reliability, observability, and delivery velocity
Apply deep expertise in SQL best practices, with an emphasis on performance optimization, readability, and long-term maintainability
Demonstrate strong understanding of conceptual, logical, and physical data modeling, and apply these principles effectively at enterprise scale
Solve complex, enterprise-scale data engineering challenges across GTM systems, balancing technical rigor with business impact
Define, standardize, and enforce testing frameworks and quality gates for data engineering workloads
Serve as a technical decision-maker for best practices, resolving tradeoffs and driving alignment across teams when standards or approaches are unclear
Business domain experience in subscription and consumption business models
Work closely with different stakeholders: Business owners, users, product managers, program managers, architects, engineering managers & developers, etc. to translate business needs and product requirements to well-documented engineering solutions
Constantly communicating updates to stakeholders and other partners with stakeholders in different phases in terms of requirements clarification, solution/planning review, status/progress sharing etc
Qualification
Required
BS or higher in computer science or related technical discipline
10+ years of hands-on software and data engineering development experiences in enterprise applications and systems
Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills and make sound architectural decisions
Broader knowledge in software architecture concepts
Deep knowledge and experience with data architecture and data platform designs
Deep knowledge and experience in data modeling, entity relationship and query analysis optimization
Deep expertise in Python, Snowflake, SQL and DBT. Real hands-on project experience with these skills is a must
Expert in using AWS. Real hands-on project experience with these skills is a must
Experiences working or leading solution design for sale planning solution, account hierarchy solution and/or customer segmentation solution
Experiences designing and building data science and ML models for generating business insights from enterprise system data
Demonstration of strong sense of ownership and competence in driving broad consensus and alignment across teams and GEOs
Ability to design and implement complex enterprise system solutions independently, demonstrate ideas by POC rapidly
Fast learner and excellent team player, experienced in work with different disciplines, domains problems and teams
Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills both verbally and written
Rich experience in mentoring and coaching other developers is a must
Deep knowledge and experience of working in Agile process is needed
Embrace changes and can work under pressure
Willing to take challenges and stretch comfortable zone with growth mindset
Preferred
Rich hands-on and tech lead project experience in delivering GTM enterprise solutions for sales, finance and marketing organizations is a plus
Rich domains knowledge in GTM business models and process is a plus
Rich domains knowledge on data architecture and data model is preferred
Experience building and delivering Gen AI capabilities or solution is a strong plus
Deep knowledge and experience in data science and machine learning are preferred
Benefits
Health and financial benefits
Time away
Everyday wellness
Annual cash bonuses
Commissions for sales roles
Stock grants
Comprehensive benefits package
Company
Autodesk
Autodesk develops 3D design software for use in the architecture, engineering, construction, and media industries.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$1.5BKey Investors
CitibankOK Blockchain Capital
2025-07-01Acquired
2025-05-08Post Ipo Debt· $1.5B
2020-08-25Seed
Leadership Team
Andrew Anagnost
President and Chief Executive Officer
Janesh Moorjani
CFO
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