Mgr, Solution Engineering

CO Salary Range: USD 101,200.00 - 181,500.00 per year

Job Requisition ID #

26WD95961

Position Overview

Solution Engineering is the technical engine within Technical Advisory that transforms field-proven consulting intellectual property (IP) into scalable, hardened digital solutions delivered through the Tools & IP Registry and Workflow Advisory platform.

The Manager - Solution Engineering leads a critical engineering function responsible for productizing consulting IP, scaling digital advisory capabilities, and enabling Technical Advisory's transition from bespoke services to platform-driven, repeatable solutions.

This role operates at an organizational leadership level, driving multi-year strategy, managing multiple workstreams and senior engineers/architects, and delivering measurable business impact through an OKR-based operating model.

The M3 leader is accountable for execution excellence, technical direction, organizational health, and cross-functional alignment across Consulting, Sales, Product, Enterprise Customer Success, and Platform teams.

Scope & Impact

• Leads a team of Solution Architects, Platform Developers, and DevOps engineers
• Owns the Solution Engineering roadmap and delivery outcomes
• Drives measurable business impact across adoption, scalability, quality, and operational efficiency
• Accountable for quarterly and annual OKRs at team and organizational level
• Influences cross-functional strategy beyond immediate team
• Responsible for workforce planning, organizational design, and capability development

• Build, lead, and evolve a high-performing engineering organization
• Establish clear team structure, roles, and growth paths
• Lead performance management, succession planning, and talent development
• Create an inclusive, accountable, and high-ownership culture
• Coach leaders and senior SAs on outcome-driven execution

• Define and operationalize quarterly and annual OKRs aligned to Technical Advisory strategy
• Translate strategic priorities into measurable engineering outcomes
• Implement structured review cadences and progress tracking
• Drive alignment between individual, team, and organizational OKRs
• Use metrics and data to continuously improve delivery predictability and business impact

• Own and drive the multi-quarter Solution Engineering roadmap
• Scale the Tools Program lifecycle from submission through standardization, hardening, validation, and publication
• Improve time-to-productization and operational maturity
• Define and track KPIs such as:

• Tool adoption and activation rates
• Platform scalability
• Reliability and incident reduction
• Engineering throughput and cycle time

• Provide architectural oversight across advisory tools and platform capabilities
• Ensure compliance with Autodesk technical, security, privacy, and operational standards
• Champion modern cloud-native, API-first, and scalable design principles
• Drive DevOps maturity, automation, CI/CD, and observability practices
• Lead modernization efforts to convert bespoke engagement artifacts into production-ready services
• Guide build vs. buy decisions and promote reuse of inner-source components
• Lead team members to adopt AI tools responsibly in their job functions

• Establish strong SDLC governance and quality frameworks
• Ensure clear ownership models, SLAs, and lifecycle management
• Oversee risk management, root cause analysis, and mitigation planning
• Drive predictability across multiple concurrent initiatives
• Manage resource planning aligned to capacity and strategic priorities

• Bachelor's or master's degree in engineering, Computer Science, or related field
• 12+ years of experience in software engineering, solution architecture, or technical consulting
• 7+ years of progressive people leadership experience
• Proven experience operating at organizational leadership level (managing senior engineers and/or managers)
• Demonstrated success implementing and scaling OKR-based execution frameworks
• Strong background in:
  • Full-stack engineering and API-driven architecture
  • Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
  • DevOps, CI/CD, automation, and observability
  • Distributed systems and scalable service design
• Experience leading multiple concurrent, cross-functional initiatives
• Strong executive-level communication and stakeholder management skills

• Experience productizing consulting IP into scalable SaaS or platform solutions
• Experience within Professional Services, Technical Advisory, or Enterprise SaaS environments
• Strong understanding of adoption, retention, and recurring revenue drivers
• Experience leading cloud modernization or platform transformation initiatives
• Financial acumen and experience managing budget or investment trade-offs
• Exposure to AI/ML-enabled solution development

• Strategic systems thinker with strong operational discipline
• Outcome-oriented and data-driven decision maker
• High ownership mindset with bias for action
• Strong coach and organizational builder
• Able to balance long-term strategy with near-term execution
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and leading change
• Influential collaborator across technical and business stakeholders