Senior AI Application Architect

MongoDB’s mission is to empower innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries by unleashing the power of software and data. We enable organizations of all sizes to easily build, scale, and run modern applications by helping them modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our industry-leading developer data platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud database and is available in more than 115 regions across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. Atlas allows customers to build and run applications anywhere—on premises, or across cloud providers. With offices worldwide and over 175,000 new developers signing up to use MongoDB every month, it’s no wonder that leading organizations, like Samsung and Toyota, trust MongoDB to build next-generation, AI-powered applications.

MongoDB Professional Services (PS) works with customers of all shapes and sizes, in all verticals, from tier-1 banks to small web startups, on a variety of exciting use cases. 

MongoDB PS exists to support the development of our customers’ vision, accelerate customers’ time to value, and drive a multitude of customer adoption scenarios – from building new innovative AI solutions to modernizing legacy applications or migrating to the cloud. Our consulting solutions ensure that organizations fully leverage MongoDB to exploit the value of their data through well-designed future state applications.

As the Senior Application Architect, you will support the ideation of high-priority customer initiatives that drive adoption of MongoDB and GenAI - from understanding the business problem to designing the solution and its associated implementation roadmap

This role can be based out of one our offices in Eastern or Central time zones or remotely in these time zones.

Position Expectations

• Stay at the forefront of the industry by leveraging the latest GenAI advancements and cutting-edge developments to fulfill ambitious innovation projects
• Provide strategic consulting on data modernisation and data strategy, ensuring customers are set up for success with AI applications, net new applications and modernized applications
• Design solutions that drive business value through incremental data-driven technological innovation, leveraging proven GenAI and MongoDB reference architectures
• Detail scope and estimate effort to develop meaningful product increments that reflect the customer’s business priorities, articulating relevant design decisions and technical or organizational interdependencies
• Provide technical direction and authority to the whole delivery team (to developers, the project manager and other customer and executive stakeholders)
• Build a demo and a prototype of the solution leveraging existing assets and a GenAI assisted development process as well as (internal or partner) developers when needed
• Adopt an advisory and prescriptive approach that inspires trust and confidence
• Actively drive the technical part of backlog grooming, sprint planning, and showcases alongside the Product Owner/Manager, providing ideas, suggestions and guidance to the rest of the team
• Actively contribute to the relevant community of practice with a view to drive thought leadership and innovation within PS, the wider MongoDB ecosystem and our customers
• Innovate development processes, technologies, and project approaches as they evolve, especially from emerging GenAI capabilities
• Develop and maintain a repository of reusable solution components
• Operate in a small, dynamic, fast-growing team, ability to be self-sufficient with a can-do attitude and making oneself accountable

Requirements

• 5+ years of application ideation & development experience preferably with tech savvy consulting firms, with 3+ years of experience as an Application Architect or Technical Lead, designing and building solutions for large-scale, technologically sophisticated accounts and/or Enterprise market customers
• Strong strategic thinking capabilities to understand and align technical work with business goals
• History of designing and delivering high-cadence modern cloud native applications with applied agile methodologies, test-first development approaches, adopting CI/CD
• Familiarity with enterprise-scale software architectures, application development methodologies, and deployment/operational considerations
• Working knowledge of microservices architectures and Domain-Driven Design approaches
• Experience with scalable and highly available distributed systems
• Solid understanding and ability to code with two or more modern scripting languages (e.g. Python, JavaScript/Node.js) and/or popular programming languages (e.g. Java, C#)
• Strong written, verbal and presentation skills when collaborating with team members and