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Position Overview

Autodesk is seeking a Senior Principal Technical Program Manager to lead security-focused technical programs for Autodesk's FedRAMP and Public Sector cloud initiatives. This role is part of our Trust organization, reporting to the Senior Director of Information Security Engineering. This rolecoordinatescross-functional execution across security, compliance, engineering, infrastructure, operations, and product teams to deliver secure, compliant, and operationally ready cloud services for regulated environments.

This is a senior individual contributor role for someone who canoperateindependently in ambiguous, high-risk programs. The ideal candidate brings deep technical program management experience, strong cloud security fluency, and the ability to translate FedRAMP and Public Sector requirements into clear execution plans, ownership models, control-readiness milestones, dashboards, and executive-level decisions.This role is not customer-facing, but may require coordination with internal compliance partners, third-party assessors, auditors, regulators, agency sponsors, orauthorizationstakeholders.

This role is remote-friendly within North America. For those who prefer in-office or hybrid work, the role can be based in San Francisco, CA; Portland, OR; Boston, MA; or Denver, CO.
Travel requirements are approximately 20%.

In accordance with U.S. government contracting and FedRAMP compliance obligations, this role requires U.S. citizenship or U.S. lawful permanent residency. Employment is contingent upon meeting all applicable government security and eligibility requirements.

Responsibilities

• Coordinatestrategicsecurityprograms for Autodesk's FedRAMP and Public Sector cloud initiatives, including planning, execution, dependency management, risk management, and leadership reporting

• Translate FedRAMP, Public Sector, cloud security, compliance, and operational-readiness requirements into actionable engineering plans and measurable program outcomes

• Establish andmaintainprogram operating models, including RACIs, decision forums, execution cadences, escalation paths, and stakeholder communication mechanisms

• Drive cross-functional alignment across engineering, security, compliance, infrastructure, operations, product, legal, and business teams.Maintain trusted systems of record across Jira, Confluence, dashboards, and reporting tools, ensuring work has clear owners, due dates, status, blockers, dependencies, and decision paths

• Identifyand manage technical, compliance, operational, organizational, and schedule risks; escalate with clear options, tradeoffs, and recommendations

• Facilitate senior-level decision-making across complex technical and regulatory topics, including service onboarding, identity and access management, third-party services, operational readiness, and secure cloud delivery

• Create scalable program mechanisms that support FedRAMP execution while extending to broader Public Sector requirements over time

• Coach and guide other TPMs, workstream leads, and partner teams on effective regulated-cloud program execution

Minimum Qualifications

• 12+ years with abachelor'sdegree,10+ with amaster's,or equivalent practical experience

• 10+ yearsleading complex technical initiatives in technical, engineering, orsecurity program management, or equivalent experience

• 5+ yearsleadinghigh-impact,cross-functional programs across engineering, security, compliance, cloud infrastructure, operations, and product teams

• Demonstrated security leadership translating complex cloud security, compliance, and risk requirements into executable engineering programs across IAM, vulnerability management, secure SDLC, incident response, logging/monitoring, change management, privileged access, encryption, and controls

• Working knowledge of FedRAMP, NIST 800-53, RMF, cloud security, regulated SaaS, orsimilarsecurityandcompliance frameworks

• Strong technical fluencyincloud platforms, SaaS architecture,IAM, service onboarding, secure SDLC, operational readiness, and incident,change, andproblem management

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, including influencing senior leaders and technical teams without direct authority

Preferred Qualifications

• Direct experience with FedRAMP authorization programs, continuous monitoring, audit readiness, control implementation, POA&M/remediation tracking, or federal cloud operations

• Experience with AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, DoD IL, CMMC, ITAR,StateRAMP,IRAP, Cyber Essentials Plus, and/or similar Public Sector requirements

• Experience using Jira, Confluence, dashboards, GRC tools, service catalogs, and evidence repositories to manage enterprise-scale programs

• Experience leadingregulated-cloudservice onboarding, platform modernization, regionalization, identity/security modernization, or operational-readiness programs

• CISSP,PMP,PgMP, CSM,SAFe,CEH, CRISC, CCSK, or similar certification is helpful but notrequired

About Autodesk

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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/

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.

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