Principal Application Delivery Consultant

MongoDBs 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, its 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

This role solves technically sophisticated problems, gains incredible cross-stack experience, works with top-notch people in the business, networks with industry leaders, and sees new places all in a days work!

MongoDB PS exists to support the development of our customersvision, accelerate customerstime to value, and drive a multitude of customer adoption scenarios from building new solutions to modernizing legacy applications or migrating to cloud

Our consulting solutions ensure that organizations get the best out of MongoDB

Act as the lead technical software developer in a small Agile team delivering solutions onsite for customers focused on migrating one of the customers legacy relational database based Java applications to a more modern cloud-based architecture running on MongoDB, leveraging the latest GenAI tools and approaches to accelerate this process

During each project, successful candidates will be required to innovate on potential new GenAI-based solutions for specific challenges in addition to applying existing playbooks and tooling for migration

We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Gurugram for our hybrid working model

Position Expectations

Stay at the forefront of the industry by staying abreast of the latest GenAI advancements and leveraging cutting-edge developments to fulfill migration projects

Innovate new development processes, technologies, and project approaches as they evolve, especially from emerging GenAI capabilities

Participates as the lead software developer on small Agile teams, delivering software-based solutions for migrating and modernizing customer legacy applications to MongoDB

Expand migration playbooks where applicable and invigorate the team to be prepared to innovate, filling in gaps with creative solutions to solve challenges on each specific project, using experience to prioritise the best ideas

Actively drive the technical part of sprint grooming, planning, and showcases alongside the project manager, providing ideas, suggestions and guidance to the rest of the team

Provide technical direction to the team and partner with the project manager on projects to drive them to a successful conclusion

This includes managing technical challenges and risks and identifying mitigation strategies

Study the current state of each legacy application, the desired target state outlined by the customer, and drive the technical planning, design and solution to get from source state to target state on each project

Be prepared to change direction on projects, if customer or account team priorities change, and act in a way that brings the rest of the team with you on this direction change

Face-off to lead technical personnel on the customer side to resolve issues and identify solutions

Requirements

10+ years of experience working as a software developer, with 3+ years of experience as a technical lead

Strong proficiency in Java

Some experience and knowledge of Python or JavaScript/Nodejs

Strong experience in building applications that interact with relational databases using SQL

Some experience of Enterprise Java (J2EE / JavaEE / Spring) application architectures

History of delivering high-cadence modern applications with applied Agile methodologies, test-first development approaches, adopting CI/CD pipelines and using Git version control

Proven experience in leading software/application development projects

Able to provide technical direction and authority to the whole delivery team (to developers, the project manager and other customer and executive stakeholders)

Strong written, verbal and presentation skills when collaborating with team members and external stakeholders within the wider MongoDB organization and the customers organization

Strong strategic thinking capabilities to understand and align technical work with business goals

Ability to travel and work on customer sites for a number of continuous weeks

Nice-to-have skills

Working knowledge of microservices architectures and Domain-Driven Design approaches

Some experience and knowledge of ORMs like Hibernate or JPA

Extra bonus skills (if missing, we will provide rapid onboarding enablement on these)

Some experience in nascent GenAI technologies and approaches, such as using OpenAI API with GPT LLMs

Practical experience of using MongoDB

To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees, were committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone

From employee affinity groups, to fertility assistance and a generous parental leave policy, we value our employeeswellbeing and want to support them along every step of their professional and personal journeys

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