Senior Application Architect

MongoDB’s 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, it’s no wonder that leading organizations, like Samsung and Toyota, trust MongoDB to build next-generation, AI-powered applications.

MongoDB supports the modernization journey of the world’s largest organizations, enhancing their competitiveness by innovating application portfolios and data landscapes at scale. As an Application Architect of the Professional Services AppDev Practice, you will engage directly with senior customer stakeholders to design and build cutting-edge solutions that solve real business challenges. Your role is to drive value through the adoption of MongoDB by shaping high-priority customer initiatives, from identifying critical business problems to architecting game-changing solutions and implementation roadmaps.

This role can be based out of our Chicago office or remotely in eastern or central time zones.

What You’ll Do

• Advise enterprise clients on application modernization strategies, architectural decisions, and technical roadmaps that align with their business goals. Guide customers in making informed choices about MongoDB adoption, cloud migration, and legacy system evolution
• Lead the design and implementation of modern enterprise application architectures, including microservices, serverless functions, event-driven systems, as well as hybrid cloud and on-premises deployments. Ensure architectures are scalable, secure, and aligned with industry best practices for high availability and resilience
• Design and deliver innovative solutions like operational data layers, data meshes and microservices that generate tangible business value, using MongoDB to drive incremental and transformative technological innovation
• Define scope, estimate effort, and deliver meaningful product increments that align with business priorities, ensuring execution against clear, strategic objectives
• Establish technical authority: guide solution delivery with remote development teams, project managers, and executive stakeholders while ensuring alignment on key architectural decisions and dependencies and providing technical leadership to client and internal development teams
• Take an advisory, prescriptive approach: inspire confidence, challenge assumptions, and provide clear strategic direction to customers
• Own and drive backlog grooming, sprint planning, and showcases in partnership with the Project Manager, providing bold ideas, strategic guidance, and hands-on leadership
• Push the envelope—continuously innovate development processes, technologies, and project methodologies, leveraging emerging GenAI capabilities to stay ahead of the curve
• Build a reusable playbook—develop and maintain a repository of best-in-class solution components that drive efficiency and accelerate delivery
• Operate with agility: work in a fast-paced, high-impact environment where ownership, accountability, and a can-do mindset are key to success

What You Bring

• 10+ years of progressive hands-on experience in application ideation and development (preferably within tech-driven consulting firms), including 3+ years as an Application Architect or Technical Lead building and delivering large-scale, enterprise-grade application modernizations
• Proven ability to connect technology to business impact—you’re not just a technical expert; you drive measurable business outcomes
• Strong knowledge of software architecture patterns including microservices, event-driven architectures, CQRS, and enterprise integration patterns. Ability to evaluate trade-offs in architecture decisions and justify choices to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Strong delivery background: you’ve designed and built scalable, highly available distributed systems using microservices and Domain-Driven Design principles
• Hands-on experience with modern cloud architectures on AWS, Azure, and/or GCP. Comfortable designing applications for containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes) and serverless platforms. Knowledge of hybrid cloud and on-prem infrastructure considerations (networking, security, VPN, etc.) at enterprise scale
• Deep expertise in full-stack cloud-native application development, agile methodologies, test-first development, and CI/CD pipelines
• Hands-on coding experience in at least two modern languages (e.g. Python, JavaScript/Node.js) or enterprise programming languages (e.g., Java, C#)
• Superior communication and leadership skills: you can engage C-level executives, technical teams, and business stakeholders with clarity, influence, and confidence
• Remote-first mindset with a willingness to travel (up to 20%) for high-impact, in-person customer engagements

Bonus Points For

• Experience in AI-driven business solutions: if you’ve built, implemented, or led development of AI-powered applications, you’re ahead of the game
• Deep MongoDB expertise: you’ve built or optimized mission-critical applications with MongoDB at scale
• Multilingual proficiency: Spanish, Italian, German, or Mandarin are a plus

Why Join Us?

This isn’t just another architecture role, it’s a chance to shape the future of business solutions and redefine what’s possible with MongoDB. If you are passionate about modernizing how enterprises build software, excited by the mix of strategic thinking and roll-up-your-sleeves coding, and motivated by driving real change, then this role will be a perfect fit. Join us in helping enterprises transform with MongoDB, and be a key player in a team where your innovation and expertise shape the future of enterprise applications.

To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees, we’re 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 employees’ wellbeing and want to support them along every step of their professional and personal journeys. Learn more about what it’s like to work at MongoDB, and help us make an impact on the world!

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Req ID: 1263065557