Forward Deployed Architect, Industry Solutions

MongoDB
Gurugram
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Solutions Engineering & Sales EngineeringExperience: 8+ yearsSkills: ["Technical leadership","Stakeholder communication","Trade-off analysis","Risk identification"]

Lead technical architecture for engagements with independent software vendors, defining how MongoDB integrates with and extends partner products. Own MongoDB data modeling, access patterns, indexing, and integration approaches, including coexistence, migrations, and controlled cutovers. Drive architecture reviews, stay hands-on by reading partner code and prototyping critical paths, and act as the escalation point for Forward Deployed Engineers across Atlas, Enterprise Advanced, Kubernetes private clouds, and on-prem environments.

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MongoDB
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Forward Deployed Architect, Industry Solutions

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Job Summary

Lead technical architecture for engagements with independent software vendors, defining how MongoDB integrates with and extends partner products. Own MongoDB data modeling, access patterns, indexing, and integration approaches, including coexistence, migrations, and controlled cutovers. Drive architecture reviews, stay hands-on by reading partner code and prototyping critical paths, and act as the escalation point for Forward Deployed Engineers across Atlas, Enterprise Advanced, Kubernetes private clouds, and on-prem environments.
Location: Gurugram
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead technical design for ISV engagements by understanding partner architecture and defining MongoDB data models, access patterns, indexing, and integration approaches.
  • •Design how MongoDB is supported alongside Oracle, PostgreSQL, or SQL Server, including persistence abstractions, feature parity, backend-specific behavior, and certification requirements.
  • •Design coexistence architectures and migration paths, including data flows, synchronization, consistency, refactoring, dual-run strategies, validation, and controlled cutover.
  • •Lead design reviews and provide technical direction by reviewing schemas, queries, indexes, MongoDB-related code, and performance against realistic workloads.
  • •Stay hands-on by reading partner code and prototyping critical paths, serving as the technical escalation point and sharing recurring gaps and patterns with MongoDB Product and Engineering teams.
Travel: Medium travel

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Parental LeaveFertility Assistance

Key Requirements

  • •8+ years of experience in backend engineering and application architecture, delivering production software products.
  • •Strong application-side MongoDB expertise, including access-pattern-driven data modeling, aggregation, indexing, transactions, change streams, replication, sharding, and sizing.
  • •Experience integrating a new database into a large production codebase, including persistence abstraction, data synchronization/dual-write or CDC patterns, transactional boundaries, and incremental rollout.
  • •Experience designing migrations of production workloads between relational databases and MongoDB.
  • •Ability to influence engineers and stakeholders without formal authority through technically sound designs and clear trade-off communication.
Experience:8+ yearsSaaSMulti-tenancyISVKubernetes
Skills:Technical leadershipStakeholder communicationTrade-off analysisRisk identification
Certifications:MongoDB certification
Languages:En
Tech Stack:MongoDBMongoDB AtlasEnterprise AdvancedOraclePostgreSQLSQL ServerKubernetesKafkaDebezium

Company Brief

MongoDB
Develops MongoDB, a leading general-purpose, document-based database platform that enables developers and enterprises to build scalable, high-performance applications with flexible data models and cloud-native capabilities.
Industry: Data Infrastructure
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: New York, United States
Founded: 2007
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