Senior Consulting Engineer London

The worldwide data management software market is massive. According to IDC, the worldwide database software market was forecasted to be approximately $82 billion in 2023, growing to approximately $137 billion in 2027, representing a 14% compound annual growth rate. At MongoDB, we are transforming industries and empowering developers to build amazing apps that people use every day. We are the leading developer data platform and the first database provider to IPO in over 20 years. Join our team and be at the forefront of innovation and creativity.

As part of our Migration Services Practice, you will help customers focus on migrating their legacy relational-based applications to a more modern cloud-based architecture running on MongoDB, leveraging the latest GenAI tools and approaches to accelerate this process. You will collaborate with the Product team on surfacing application modernization and relational migration use cases and serve as a trusted partner for delivering the productized features. You will also act as a liaison between the PS teams driving customer application modernization and our Product team.

You should be passionate about customer success and know what it takes to implement new technology within the enterprise successfully. You will be part of a team of technologists, sales, support, and delivery professionals that are among the best in their fields.

Position Expectations

• Be excited about new technologies and approaches on projects as they evolve, especially relating to legacy App modernization, leveraging cutting-edge developments to fulfill migration projects.
• Operate in a small, dynamic, fast-growing team, able to be self-sufficient with a can-do attitude and make oneself accountable.
• Take ownership of your scope of responsibility and autonomously drive progress on product knowledge, building content and adding to our knowledge base, defining enablement areas and prioritizing based on customer requests and needs.
• Cultivate and build your reputation as a Relational Migration SME and as a trusted advisor to guide MongoDB and our customers into the future.
• Partner with Product and Engineering teams to influence the direction of the MongoDB product roadmap and communicate it to external clients.
• Follow existing best practice application modernization playbooks where applicable and be prepared to innovate to fill in gaps with creative solutions to solve challenges on each specific project.
• Contribute to customer implementations at any or all phases of the application lifecycle with a focus on migrations: application planning and design, deployment architectures, development and build, integration and release configuration, system testing, production operations, application optimization, and best practices adoption.
• Communicate sophisticated technical proposals simply and convincingly to a wide range of audiences.
• Adopt a consultative and prescriptive approach that inspires trust and confidence.

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science or a similar technical field and a technology-first mindset to build credibility with and engage with some of the smartest technologists in the world.
• 5+ years experience with enterprise-scale software solutions, large-scale software engineering, or consulting services delivery experience preferred.
• Strong experience in building or supporting applications that interact with relational databases using SQL.
• Experience with relational databases such as Oracle, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or MySQL. Additionally, experience with MongoDB is a plus.
• Some experience in working with distributed streaming platforms, such as Apache Kafka and/or ETL tools.
• High motivation for a role that combines deep technical and customer-management dimensions.
• Excellent customer interaction and presentation skills.
• Excellent analytical, diagnostic, and problem-solving skills.
• Familiarity with Linux diagnostics and tuning; Windows tuning knowledge is a plus.
• Ability for occasional travel - up to 20% of the time.

Nice-to-have skills

• Some experience in nascent GenAI technologies and approaches, such as using OpenAI API with GPT LLMs.
• Practical experience of using MongoDB.

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