Senior Software Development Manager (Platform Services)

Position Overview

Autodesk is looking for an experienced Senior Software Development Manager to join the Autodesk Platform Services Software Development team in Toronto, Canada.

The APS Platform offers API's and services that help our customers access and use their design and engineering data on the cloud.

You will report to the Director, Software Development based in the US. This is a hybrid role ( 1 - 2 times per week in the office).

You will lead a technical team that will be developing scalable cloud services in an Agile environment. You will nurture talent, develop and advocate best engineering practices, and provide guidance and mentoring to your team to deliver high-quality solutions to their customers.

You will be part of and to help evolve the software development discipline in a lean / Agile environment and to contribute to an organisation committed to continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

Lead Main Business Outcome / Initiatives. Accountable for multiple large-scale main results. Lead and contribute to development of our goals and long-term strategy of the services

Promote best engineering practices and coordination among other teams

Collaborate with Product Managers and other partners to achieve business outcomes and deliver high-quality software meeting customer needs

Inspire, motivate and coach team members to achieve maximum productivity, optimal creativity and efficiency

Mentor team members to develop their careers and to achieve individual success

Hire and develop top engineering talent

Enhance engineering efficiency; observe the team, identify opportunities, and influence the improvement

Manage the unknowns and help teams manage through the uncertainties

Promote customer-centricity and engineering excellence in teams

Minimum Qualifications

15+ years of hands on experience in the industry involving developing cloud scale and server applications and services

8+ years of experience leading and managing cross -functional development teams

3+ years of experience managing other managers, leads, senior developers and architects

Experience leading teams developing large, scalable, available and resilient cloud data systems

Experience building API strategy and API strategy

Experience with AWS cloud services

Exposure to information retrieval / search systems; Lucene, Elastic Search, OpenSearch systems

Exposure to compute platforms, large-scale cloud compute systems

Experience hiring talented developers and setting up teams for success

Experience managing geo distributed teams across different time zones

Bachelour degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related field

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About Autodesk

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