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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).
How to Get Visa Sponsorship as a Senior Principal Data Engineer
Target companies with established H-1B filing histories
Large tech, finance, and healthcare companies file H-1B petitions for data engineering roles at senior principal level regularly. Filtering for employers with repeat sponsorship records significantly improves your odds of a smooth, well-resourced process.
Lead with architectural scope, not just technical skills
USCIS expects specialty occupation evidence for senior principal roles. Emphasize system design leadership, cross-functional ownership, and enterprise-scale impact in your resume to strengthen the employer's H-1B petition supporting documentation.
Clarify your degree field early in conversations
H-1B specialty occupation requires a degree in a directly related field. Computer science, data engineering, and applied mathematics typically qualify. Flag any non-standard degree early so the employer's immigration counsel can assess the case before an offer is extended.
Understand how cap-exempt employers change your timeline
Universities, research nonprofits, and certain government-affiliated entities are H-1B cap-exempt. Senior principal roles at these organizations can be filed any time of year without lottery exposure, which matters if you missed the annual registration window.
Consider O-1A if you have a strong public profile
Senior principal engineers with published research, conference presentations, or documented industry recognition may qualify for the O-1A extraordinary ability visa. It bypasses the lottery entirely and can be filed while simultaneously pursuing H-1B options.
Get the LCA certified before negotiating a start date
Your employer must file a Labor Condition Application with the Department of Labor before submitting the H-1B petition. LCA certification typically takes seven business days. Factor this into your expected start date to avoid committing to an unrealistic timeline.
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Is Senior Principal Data Engineer a qualifying specialty occupation for the H-1B visa?
Yes, Senior Principal Data Engineer consistently qualifies as a specialty occupation under H-1B standards. USCIS looks for a direct relationship between the role's duties and a specific degree field. Roles involving distributed system architecture, data pipeline design, and technical leadership across engineering teams typically meet the requirement when paired with a degree in computer science, information systems, or a closely related discipline.
Does my degree field affect H-1B approval odds for this role?
It matters more than most candidates expect. USCIS requires that the bachelor's degree or higher be in a specific specialty directly related to the job. Computer science, data engineering, electrical engineering, and applied mathematics are the strongest fits. Degrees in unrelated fields, even combined with years of experience, can lead to a Request for Evidence or denial unless the employer builds a detailed supporting argument.
How competitive is H-1B sponsorship for Senior Principal Data Engineers compared to other roles?
Senior principal roles attract sponsorship from employers who are already comfortable with the H-1B process, which reduces the friction compared to smaller or less experienced sponsors. The H-1B lottery remains the main bottleneck: USCIS received over 470,000 registrations for FY2026 against an 85,000-slot cap. Seniority helps because employers are more willing to invest in premium processing and legal fees for senior hires.
Can I find Senior Principal Data Engineer roles with visa sponsorship on Migrate Mate?
Yes. Migrate Mate's job board filters specifically for roles open to visa sponsorship, including H-1B, O-1, and green card pathways. Senior principal data engineering positions from employers with verified sponsorship histories appear regularly. Searching by role and filtering by visa type is the fastest way to identify employers actively filing for this job title.
What happens to my H-1B status if I'm laid off while working as a Senior Principal Data Engineer?
You have a 60-day grace period from your last day of employment to find a new sponsoring employer, change to another valid visa status, or depart the U.S. Your new employer must file a new H-1B petition, though cap-exempt portability rules may apply if your original petition was already approved. Acting quickly is critical since the 60-day window does not reset between consecutive layoffs.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored Senior Principal Data Engineer jobs?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.
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