Senior AI Application Architect, MongoDB

• 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 external stakeholders within the wider MongoDB organization and the customer’s organization

Desirable

• 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
• 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