Forward Deployed Architect, Industry Solutions

Role overview

Forward Deployed Architect, Industry Solutions at MongoDB

<p>We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Gurugram for our hybrid working model.</p>

Responsibilities

• You will ensure that the designs implemented by the team are practical, production-ready, and reusable across future partner engagements.</p>

Required qualifications

• <li>Application-level experience with at least one major relational database and integrating a new database into a large production codebase, including persistence abstraction, data synchronization, dual-write or CDC patterns, transactional boundaries, and incremental rollout</li>

Employment details

• Location: Gurugram

Application details

• <li>Design coexistence architectures and migration paths, including data flows, synchronization, consistency, application refactoring, dual-run strategies, validation, and controlled cutover</li>
• <li>8+ years of experience in backend engineering and application architecture, delivering production software products</li>
• <li>Develop advanced experience in multi-database application architecture, database coexistence, migrations, cloud-native deployment, and the operational considerations of partner products</li>

About the employer

• <p>MongoDB is the modern database platform and consistently voted the <a href="https://www.mongodb.com/blog/post/stack-overflow-research-most-wanted-database">#1 most wanted database</a>, preferred by developers.
• <p>To support this growth, we are expanding our <a href="https://www.mongodb.com/blog/post/transitioning-teacher-mongodbs-new-enterprise-modernization-team-meet-gabriela-preiss">Industry Solutions Team</a> (IST), a flexible, globally distributed organization that helps customers and partners modernize applications and data platforms with MongoDB.</p>
• You will work with ISV development leaders, senior engineers, and Forward Deployed Engineers to design how MongoDB integrates with and extends the partner’s product.</p>
• <h3>What you’ll do at MongoDB</h3>
• <li>Design MongoDB as a supported platform option alongside Oracle, PostgreSQL, or SQL Server, including persistence abstractions, feature parity, backend-specific behavior, and certification requirements</li>
• <li>Lead design reviews, provide technical direction, and review schemas, queries, indexes, MongoDB-related code, and performance against realistic partner workloads</li>
• <li>Design solutions across MongoDB Atlas, Enterprise Advanced, Kubernetes-based private clouds, and self-managed or air-gapped on-premises environments</li>
• <li>Stay hands-on by reading partner code and prototyping critical paths, act as the technical escalation point for Forward Deployed Engineers, and share recurring technical gaps and patterns with MongoDB Product and Engineering teams</li>
• <li>Strong application-side MongoDB expertise, including access-pattern-driven data modeling, aggregation, indexing, transactions, change streams, replication, sharding, and sizing</li>
• <li>Experience designing migrations of production workloads between relational databases and MongoDB</li>
• <li>MongoDB certification, MongoDB Atlas experience, or experience with MongoDB’s broader product portfolio</li>
• <li>Deepen your expertise across MongoDB Atlas, Enterprise Advanced, application development, data modeling, search, vector workloads, and the broader MongoDB ecosystem</li>
• <h3>About MongoDB</h3>
• <p>MongoDB is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market.
• MongoDB’s unified data platform, the most widely available, globally distributed data platform on the market, helps organizations modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI.
• Our cloud-native platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud data platform and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.</p>
• <p>With offices worldwide and over 67,000 customers, including AI-native startups and approximately 75% of the Fortune 100, relying on MongoDB for their most important applications, we’re powering the next era of software.</p>
• <p>Our compass at MongoDB is our <a href="https://www.mongodb.com/company">Leadership Commitment,</a> guiding how and why we make decisions, show up for each other, and win.
• It’s what makes us MongoDB. </p>

Benefits

• <p>To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees, we’re committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone. <a href="https://www.mongodb.com/company/blog/culture/employee-benefits-that-make-a-difference-at-mongodb">From employee affinity groups, to fertility assistance and a generous parental leave policy</a>, we value our employees’ wellbeing and want to support them along every step of their professional and personal journeys.<a href="https://www.mongodb.com/blog/channel/culture"> Learn more about what it’s like to work at MongoDB</a>, and help us make an impact on the world!</p>

Additional role details

• MongoDB continues to attract the most demanding and innovative companies and development teams in enterprise software.</p>
• <p>As a Forward Deployed Architect in our ISV Practice, you will be the technical design lead for engagements with independent software vendors (ISVs).
• <p>This is an application architecture role, not a database administration or database consulting role.
• <p>Learn more about #LifeAtMongoDB <a href="https://www.mongodb.com/blog/channel/culture">here</a>!</p>
• <ul>
• <li>Lead technical design for ISV engagements by understanding partner architecture and delivery models, then defining MongoDB data models, access patterns, indexing, and integration approaches for products serving different industries</li>
• <li>Build reusable architecture patterns, migration playbooks, code templates, decision frameworks, and other assets that make future partner engagements faster and more consistent</li>
• </ul>
• <h3>As an ideal candidate, you will have</h3>
• <li>Strong SaaS and product-engineering knowledge, including multi-tenancy, tenant isolation, versioned schemas, backward compatibility, and managed-cloud, Kubernetes-based private-cloud, or self-managed on-premises deployments</li>
• <li>The ability to influence engineers and stakeholders without formal authority through technically sound, practical designs; explain trade-offs clearly; identify risks early; and balance delivery speed, quality, and long-term maintainability</li>
• <li>Willingness to travel regularly to ISV partner locations</li>
• <h3>As an ideal candidate, you may also have</h3>
• <li>Experience working inside an ISV or product company, including in a forward-deployed, resident-architect, embedded-architect, or similar technical delivery role</li>
• <li>Familiarity with event-driven architectures and technologies such as Kafka or Debezium</li>
• <li>Experience with regulated or data-intensive industries and their security, compliance, and data-governance requirements</li>
• <h3>What you will learn</h3>
• <li>Work across ISV products, technology stacks, industries, and deployment environments while building reusable architecture patterns and developing your technical influence and leadership</li>
• We have redefined the data platform for the AI era, enabling builders to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software.
• <p>MongoDB is committed to providing any necessary accommodations for individuals with disabilities within our application and interview process.
• To request an accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter.</p>
• <p>MongoDB is an equal opportunities employer.</p>
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