Senior Solutions Architect

MongoDB MongoDB · Enterprise · London, United Kingdom · Solutions Consulting, Growth EMEA

This role is a Senior Solutions Architect at MongoDB, focusing on pre-sales to guide customers in designing and building scalable systems using MongoDB's data platform. The role involves collaborating with sales teams, advising customers on architecture, and ensuring technical alignment with MongoDB's solutions. While AI/ML projects are mentioned as a potential area of experience, the core function of the role is not AI/ML development but rather leveraging MongoDB's platform to solve customer business problems.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design and Architect: Design scalable and performant applications, systems and infrastructure for large software projects leveraging MongoDB
  2. Customer Advising and Value Articulation: Guide customers on architecture patterns and optimisation strategies for MongoDB, while clearly communicating its business value to the relevant stakeholders
  3. Sales Partnership: Collaborate with the sales team to drive account success through account planning, opportunity prioritization/qualification and pipeline generation strategy, while taking ownership of the technical aspects (including but not limited to technical discovery, demos, proof of value, presentations, sizing and documentation)
  4. Demand Generation: Proactively generate demand within the sales territory through self-driven technical initiatives, participation in events such as industry trade shows and account-based marketing events
  5. Customer Success: Foster strong customer relationships, build champions and ensure customer success and satisfaction

Skills

Required

  • customer facing role
  • pre-sales with enterprise software
  • modern scripting languages (e.g. Python, Node.js, SQL)
  • popular programming languages (e.g. C/C++, Java, C#)
  • designing with scalable and highly available distributed systems
  • work with customers to review complex architecture
  • presentation, communication, and interpersonal skills
  • strategize with sales teams
  • travel up to 25%
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience

Nice to have

  • selling databases
  • deploying applications with any of the major cloud providers
  • database programming and data models
  • data engineering or AI/ML projects
  • transforming legacy systems and platforms
  • understanding of popular sales methodologies/ frameworks
  • MongoDB Certification
  • Cloud Provider Certification

What the JD emphasized

  • customer success
  • technical alignment
  • design and build reliable, scalable systems