Job Requisition ID

26WD95094

Position Overview

We are seeking a Data Engineer to join our People Insights & Solution Design team to help evolve a world-class people analytics function at Autodesk. This role sits within our People & Places (PPL) organization and supports our mission of empowering employees and leaders to make better decisions through actionable insights from data. In this role, you will contribute to the design, development, and maintenance of people data pipelines and analytics-ready datasets. You will work closely with senior data engineers and scientists, solution designers, and other stakeholders across People & Places to help ensure high-quality, reliable data for reporting and analysis. As needed, you will also support analytics partners by prototyping or iterating on dashboards to help validate data models, metrics, and use cases. The ideal candidate is curious, detail-oriented, and excited to grow their data engineering skill set in a complex business environment. This role offers hands-on experience across the full data lifecycle, from ingestion and transformation to modeling and analytics enablement. Remote work is allowed.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain data pipelines and datasets in alignment with team and enterprise standards, and contribute to the evolution of those standards under the guidance of senior team members

• Support data governance practices by helping document data definitions, lineage, and usage, and by following established controls for data quality, access, and compliance

• Partner with our IT organization to support and enhance the end-to-end automation of data pipelines, making datasets readily-consumable by visualization tools and notification systems

• Collaborate with stakeholders across People & Places and other corporate functions to understand data requirements and analytics use cases

• Support the development and evolution of people analytics data models under the guidance of senior data engineers

• Perform data analysis and root cause investigations to help answer business questions and surface data issues or opportunities for improvement

• Develop and maintain processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, and basic dependency management

• Assist in building and maintaining dashboards by managing underlying data sources, validating data accuracy, and supporting performance and refresh reliability

Minimum Qualifications

• 8 years of experience working with data technologies, or equivalent experience through internships, academic projects, or other hands-on training

• Foundational understanding of data warehousing concepts and analytical data modeling

• Proficiency in at least one modern programming language (e.g., Python) for data processing and analysis

• Proficiency in SQL and experience querying relational databases

• Working knowledge of non-relational databases (e.g., vector, document or key-value stores) and when to use them alongside analytical data warehouses

• Experience integrating data from multiple sources, including files, databases, and APIs

• Familiarity with data cleaning, transformation, and validation techniques

• Exposure to business intelligence or data visualization tools (such as Tableau, Power BI, or similar)

• Ability to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical partners and explain data-related concepts and decisions

• Strong analytical mindset and attention to detail when working with imperfect or messy data

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with cloud-based data platforms (AWS preferred)

• Familiarity with version control (e.g., Git) and collaborative development workflows

• Exposure to data quality scorecarding, data governance, and data monitoring concepts in an enterprise or regulated data environment

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About Autodesk

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