Vice President of Enterprise Architecture, MongoDB
$203-399k
Office located in Palo Alto, CA or San Francisco, CA
Developer data platform
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Developer data platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$203-399k
Office located in Palo Alto, CA or San Francisco, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries by unleashing the power of software and data.
Role
Who you are
- You are passionate about cutting through complexity, are grounded in business outcomes, and are known for your ability to influence across organizational boundaries
- 15+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, technology strategy, or solution design leadership roles in high-growth, global environments
- 10+ years leading architecture at fast paced, high growth companies
- Proven experience designing and scaling modern cloud-native architectures (e.g., SaaS, APIs, microservices, data mesh)
- Strong understanding of enterprise platforms (ERP, CRM, CPQ, Data & Analytics, AI/ML, Integration, Identity & Access, Security)
- Demonstrated ability to partner with executive stakeholders and drive architecture alignment across business and technology domains
- Experience driving enterprise-wide transformations including modernization, cloud migration, data strategy, and AI enablement
- Excellent communicator and influencer, capable of translating complex technical topics into clear business impacts for diverse audiences
- Strategic mindset with a pragmatic bias for action; able to balance long-term vision with near-term execution
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field required
What the job involves
- Vice President of Enterprise Architecture is a strategic thought leader and trusted partner to technology and business executives across MongoDB
- This role is responsible for defining and driving the enterprise-wide architecture strategy, ensuring technology investments are aligned to business outcomes, enabling agility, and unlocking innovation through scalable, modern platforms
- You will be accountable for establishing a future-ready architectural vision that supports MongoDB’s growth, accelerates the adoption of AI and automation, and simplifies the technology landscape across the enterprise
- You will be accountable for the definition of an AI strategy for the enterprise keeping velocity in mind and aligning to the business objectives for AI in each function
- You will lead a lean, small but high-impact global team of enterprise, domain, and solution architects responsible for defining blueprints, setting architectural guardrails, and partnering with product and engineering teams to deliver value at scale
- Develop and communicate a compelling enterprise architecture vision aligned to MongoDB’s long-term business strategy and technology roadmap
- Reduce tech sprawl - Define architecture principles, and standards that guide solution design, data integration, cloud infrastructure, security, and application development
- Partner with leadership across IT, engineering, and business functions to drive architectural alignment, eliminate tech debt, and improve interoperability across systems
- Enable the enterprise to be “AI-ready” by championing modern data, integration, and automation architecture foundations that power GenAI, analytics, and decision intelligence
- Establish strong architecture governance to ensure systems are designed for scale, security, and resilience, while reducing redundancy and fragmentation
- Lead modernization initiatives to rationalize legacy platforms and promote reusable, composable architecture patterns (e.g., APIs, microservices, event-driven architecture)
- Provide architectural leadership in build vs. buy decisions, balancing time-to-value with long-term scalability and cost
- Build and develop a world-class team of enterprise and domain architects; create a strong community of practice to share learnings and best practices
- Champion business architecture thinking to ensure technology decisions are grounded in business capabilities and customer outcomes
- Track emerging technologies and bring outside-in perspective to influence MongoDB’s future enterprise architecture direction
- In 90 days: You’ve built trust across business and technology leadership, assessed the current architectural landscape, and identified high-priority opportunities to improve alignment and reduce complexity
- In 6 months: You’ve rolled out foundational architecture principles and governance, delivered early wins in simplifying key areas, and gained alignment on the 18–24 month enterprise architecture roadmap. You would have tangible benefits in controlling tech and AI sprawl
- In 12 months: You've built a high-performing architecture team, driven adoption of scalable, AI-ready architecture patterns, and positioned MongoDB for continued growth through a unified, future-ready technology foundation
Our take
MongoDB is an open-source, cross-platform, document-oriented database system. It stores data as JSON-like documents and is written in C++, Go, JavaScript and Python.
Essentially, the company develops tools and blueprints to help businesses and organisations modernise their legacy applications, migrating them to the MongoDB database and the MongoDB Atlas cloud database. With this initiative, MongoDB is particularly taking aim at Oracle customers with ageing applications running on the Oracle relational database system.
Since its release, MongoDB has become one of the most popularly used NoSQL database systems due to its ease of use and efficiency. It is also the fastest-growing database ecosystem, and boasts hundreds of millions of downloads. Recently, the company announced a partnership with Patronus AI, an automated evaluation and security platform, through which it will bring automated LLM evaluation and testing capabilities to enterprise customers.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
13% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Jan 2015
$80m
SERIES G
Oct 2013
$150m
SERIES F
Total funding: $311.1m
Company benefits
- Rich health insurance coverage
- Virtual & on-site fitness classes
- Health screenings & telemedicine
- Access to transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage
- Global and internal mobility opportunities
- Equity & Employee Stock Purchase Program
- Pension & retirement programs
- Income Protection
- Flexible PTO is offered to every US employee & competitive time off policies for non-US employees
- Employee Assistance Program
- Mental health counseling
- Free meditation app access
- Fertility & adoption financial assistance
- Parental counseling for new parents
- 20 weeks of fully paid gender neutral parental leave & flexible work arrangements
- 4 weeks of emergency care leave
Company HQ
Theater District, New York, NY
Leadership
Dwight Merriman
(Co-Founder)Previously CTO and Co-founder at DoubleClick for 10 years, and Chairman at AlleyCorp for 15 years.
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