Data Engineer

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Position Overview

Autodesk is looking for a talented and motivated Data Engineer to join our Platform Strategy & Emerging Technologies organization to develop robust and scalable data pipelines using and improving existing platforms, to support data-driven decision-making across the platform initiatives.

The successful candidate will drive performance enhancements, build pipelines and collaborate with analysts, data scientists, stakeholders and other Data Engineering teams across Autodesk. You will work with cutting edge technologies in the big data space.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, automate and maintain scalable, robust and reliable ELT/ETL data pipelines that collect, process and transform large volumes of structure and unstructured data from various sources
• Maintain and enhance our existing data architecture to ensure smooth and efficient data flow across platforms
• Interface with data peers, product managers and cross-functional stakeholders to gather requirements, sequence work and document technical solutions
• Implement best practices for data quality, integrity and governance, including monitoring, validation and auditing processes to ensure reliable and consistent data availability
• Contribute to a team culture that values quality, robustness, and scalability while fostering initiatives and innovation by staying up to date with industry trends and new technologies

Minimum Qualifications

• 3+ years of data processing and data engineering experience in a fast-paced, large cloud-based infrastructure (AWS experience required)
• Hands-on software development experience in Python
• Expert understanding of SQL, dimensional modeling, and analytical data warehouses, such as Snowflake, Presto/Hive
• Understanding of Data Engineering best practices for medium to large scale production workloads
• Knowledge of big data processing frameworks (e.g. Spark, Hadoop)
• Expertise with data pipeline orchestration tools, such as Airflow
• Familiar with processing semi-structured file formats such as Json or parquet
• Team player with good communication skills
• Problem solver with excellent written and interpersonal skills
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, data science, or related fields

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Jinja, Shell scripting, DBT
• Developing in Cloud platform using serverless technologies such as AWS glue, lambda, EMR and EKS is a plus
• Experience with remote development using AWS SDK is a plus
• Experience with both ETL and ELT pipelines, including traditional ETL tools (e.g., Airflow, Talend, Informatica) and modern ELT frameworks (e.g., dbt, Snowflake)
• Knowledge of AWS IAM roles, permissions, and best practices for least-privilege access
• Experience with Terraform for AWS resource provisioning, including remote state management and security best practices
• Hands-on experience with AWS networking (VPC, security groups, cross-account permissions)
• REST API design and implementation
• Familiarity with containers and infrastructure-as-code principles
• Experience with automation frameworks - Git, Jenkins, and Terraform
• Master’s degree in computer science, data science, or related fields