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Senior Principal Data Engineer
Position Overview
At Autodesk, we as Enterprise Data Engineering team are pivotal in driving business growth and improving operational efficiency through innovative data solutions and insights. We are seeking a Senior Principal Data Engineer with deep technical expertise and business domain knowledge in Go-To-Market (GTM) enterprise systems, sales, finance, and customer master data domains. In this role, you will report to the Director of Data Engineering in our Growth Experiences Technology (GET) organization. You’ll lead the delivery of advanced data platform services, data architecture and data products through various data initiatives, working with a globally distributed, talented team to transform Autodesk’s business processes. As we collaborate across departments, you’ll partner closely with Product Managers in data and other GTM function domains to identify high impact use cases, build scalable data platform services, design innovative data products, and deliver actionable insights. Your role will be crucial in defining and optimizing Autodesk’s approach for data-driven decision-making processes.
Location: San Francisco, United States.
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.
Minimum Qualifications
- 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 Qualifications
- 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.
About Autodesk
Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) is at the forefront of innovation, creating software that empowers people to transform ideas into reality. As a global leader, our design and make software revolutionizes the architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, and media and entertainment industries. Whether it's crafting high-performance cars, constructing towering skyscrapers, developing cutting-edge smartphones, or producing blockbuster films, millions of creators rely on Autodesk products to turn their visions into tangible results. Our solutions enable you to shape the future and Make Anything possible. Embrace the future of making things with Autodesk, where groundbreaking changes in design, manufacturing, and usage are happening every day.
Benefits
From health and financial benefits to time away and everyday wellness, we give Autodeskers the best, so they can do their best work. Learn more about our benefits in the U.S. by visiting https://benefits.autodesk.com/
Salary transparency
Salary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package. For U.S.-based roles, we expect a starting base salary between $147,600 and $238,700. 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.
Equal Employment Opportunity
At Autodesk, we're building a diverse workplace and an inclusive culture to give more people the chance to imagine, design, and make a better world. Autodesk is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic. We also consider for employment all qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.
Diversity & Belonging
We take pride in cultivating a culture of belonging where everyone can thrive. Learn more here: https://www.autodesk.com/company/diversity-and-belonging
Are you an existing contractor or consultant with Autodesk?
Please search for open jobs and apply internally (not on this external site).
Job Requisition ID # 26WD94931
Senior Principal Data Engineer
Position Overview
At Autodesk, we as Enterprise Data Engineering team are pivotal in driving business growth and improving operational efficiency through innovative data solutions and insights. We are seeking a Senior Principal Data Engineer with deep technical expertise and business domain knowledge in Go-To-Market (GTM) enterprise systems, sales, finance, and customer master data domains. In this role, you will report to the Director of Data Engineering in our Growth Experiences Technology (GET) organization. You’ll lead the delivery of advanced data platform services, data architecture and data products through various data initiatives, working with a globally distributed, talented team to transform Autodesk’s business processes. As we collaborate across departments, you’ll partner closely with Product Managers in data and other GTM function domains to identify high impact use cases, build scalable data platform services, design innovative data products, and deliver actionable insights. Your role will be crucial in defining and optimizing Autodesk’s approach for data-driven decision-making processes.
Location: San Francisco, United States.
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.
Minimum Qualifications
- 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 Qualifications
- 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.
About Autodesk
Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) is at the forefront of innovation, creating software that empowers people to transform ideas into reality. As a global leader, our design and make software revolutionizes the architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, and media and entertainment industries. Whether it's crafting high-performance cars, constructing towering skyscrapers, developing cutting-edge smartphones, or producing blockbuster films, millions of creators rely on Autodesk products to turn their visions into tangible results. Our solutions enable you to shape the future and Make Anything possible. Embrace the future of making things with Autodesk, where groundbreaking changes in design, manufacturing, and usage are happening every day.
Benefits
From health and financial benefits to time away and everyday wellness, we give Autodeskers the best, so they can do their best work. Learn more about our benefits in the U.S. by visiting https://benefits.autodesk.com/
Salary transparency
Salary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package. For U.S.-based roles, we expect a starting base salary between $147,600 and $238,700. 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.
Equal Employment Opportunity
At Autodesk, we're building a diverse workplace and an inclusive culture to give more people the chance to imagine, design, and make a better world. Autodesk is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic. We also consider for employment all qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.
Diversity & Belonging
We take pride in cultivating a culture of belonging where everyone can thrive. Learn more here: https://www.autodesk.com/company/diversity-and-belonging
Are you an existing contractor or consultant with Autodesk?
Please search for open jobs and apply internally (not on this external site).
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding TN Visa Sponsorship as a Senior Principal Data Engineer
Map your credentials to Systems Analyst
TN classification for data engineering roles falls under Systems Analyst, not a dedicated data category. Gather your degree transcripts and document how your coursework in computer science, mathematics, or information systems maps directly to the engineering functions in your job offer.
Target employers experienced with visa sponsorship
Companies experienced with visa sponsorship understand the documentation requirements and won't stall at the offer stage. Filter for employers in cloud infrastructure, financial services, and healthcare technology, where senior data engineering roles are most consistently classified under Systems Analyst—a TN-eligible professional category.
Require a detailed support letter from your employer
CBP officers adjudicate TN petitions at the border using only what you hand them. Your employer's support letter must specify your title, describe data architecture and pipeline responsibilities in technical terms, and explicitly connect those duties to the Systems Analyst TN category.
Search verified TN-sponsoring employers on Migrate Mate
Targeting companies already open to TN sponsorship cuts weeks off your search. Use Migrate Mate to find Senior Principal Data Engineer roles at employers with documented sponsorship history, so you're not educating hiring managers about TN eligibility during negotiations.
Clarify Mexican processing timelines before accepting offers
Mexican citizens process TN visas at a U.S. consulate, which adds scheduling time that Canadian border processing doesn't require. Build this into your start date negotiation so your employer isn't expecting a two-week turnaround when consular appointment availability may extend further.
Prepare for principal-level scrutiny on role complexity
Senior Principal titles attract closer CBP review because officers verify the role genuinely requires a bachelor's degree or higher in a related field. Document that your responsibilities involve architectural decision-making and cross-functional engineering leadership, not generalist data tasks any graduate could perform.
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Does a Senior Principal Data Engineer role qualify for a TN visa?
Yes, Senior Principal Data Engineer roles can qualify under the TN Systems Analyst category, provided the position requires a bachelor's degree or higher in computer science, information systems, mathematics, or a closely related field. The job offer letter must describe responsibilities such as data architecture design, pipeline engineering, and systems integration at a level that clearly supports specialty classification.
How does TN visa sponsorship compare to H-1B for this role?
TN has no annual lottery and no cap for Canadian citizens, so you can apply year-round and start as soon as the visa is approved. H-1B selection is limited to 85,000 slots annually and requires entering a randomized lottery. For a Senior Principal Data Engineer with a qualifying degree, TN is a faster, more predictable path. Mexican citizens face a separate TN numerical limit, but still avoid the H-1B lottery.
What documents does a Canadian citizen need to cross the border on TN status for this role?
You need a valid Canadian passport, a detailed employer support letter describing the Senior Principal Data Engineer role and its connection to the Systems Analyst TN category, proof of your qualifying degree, and payment for the TN border fee. CBP adjudicates the application on the spot. No prior petition approval or visa stamp is required for Canadian citizens.
Where can I find Senior Principal Data Engineer jobs with TN visa sponsorship?
Migrate Mate is built specifically for Canadian and Mexican professionals seeking U.S. roles with TN visa sponsorship. You can search Senior Principal Data Engineer positions filtered by employers who already understand TN requirements, which means fewer conversations spent explaining the visa category and more time focused on the technical interview.
Can a Senior Principal Data Engineer on TN status change employers?
Yes, but you can't start with the new employer until TN authorization for that role is secured. Canadian citizens can obtain a new TN at any port of entry with the new employer's documentation. Mexican citizens return to a U.S. consulate for a new visa. There's no grace period that automatically extends your work authorization after leaving the sponsoring employer, so timing matters.
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