Principal Application Delivery Consultant Chicago

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 Professional Services (PS) works with customers of all shapes and sizes, in all verticals, from tier-1 banks to small web startups, on a variety of exciting use cases. This role solves technically sophisticated problems, gains incredible cross-stack experience, works with top-notch people in the business, networks with industry leaders, and sees new places – all in a day’s work!

Act as the lead technical software developer in a small Agile team delivering solutions onsite for customers focused on migrating one of the customer’s legacy relational database based Java applications to a more modern cloud-based architecture running on MongoDB, leveraging the latest GenAI tools and approaches to accelerate this process. During each project, successful candidates will be required to innovate on potential new GenAI-based solutions for specific challenges in addition to applying existing playbooks and tooling for migration.

Position Expectations

• Stay at the forefront of the industry by staying abreast of the latest GenAI advancements and leveraging cutting-edge developments to fulfill migration projects.
• Innovate new development processes, technologies, and project approaches as they evolve, especially from emerging GenAI capabilities.
• Participates as the lead software developer on small Agile teams, delivering software-based solutions for migrating and modernizing customer legacy applications to MongoDB.
• Expand migration playbooks where applicable and invigorate the team to be prepared to innovate, filling in gaps with creative solutions to solve challenges on each specific project, using experience to prioritise the best ideas.
• Actively drive the technical part of sprint grooming, planning, and showcases alongside the project manager, providing ideas, suggestions and guidance to the rest of the team.
• Provide technical direction to the team and partner with the project manager on projects to drive them to a successful conclusion. This includes managing technical challenges and risks and identifying mitigation strategies.
• Study the current state of each legacy application, the desired target state outlined by the customer, and drive the technical planning, design and solution to get from source state to target state on each project.
• Be prepared to change direction on projects, if customer or account team priorities change, and act in a way that brings the rest of the team with you on this direction change.
• Face-off to lead technical personnel on the customer side to resolve issues and identify solutions.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience working as a software developer, with 3+ years of experience as a technical lead.
• Strong proficiency in Java.
• Strong experience in building applications that interact with relational databases using SQL.
• Some experience of Enterprise Java (J2EE / JavaEE / Spring) application architectures.
• History of delivering high-cadence modern applications with applied Agile methodologies, test-first development approaches, adopting CI/CD pipelines and using Git version control.
• Proven experience in leading software/application development projects.
• Able to provide technical direction and authority to the whole delivery team (to developers, the project manager and other customer and executive stakeholders).
• Strong written, verbal and presentation skills when collaborating with team members and external stakeholders within the wider MongoDB organization and the customer’s organization.
• Strong strategic thinking capabilities to understand and align technical work with business goals.
• Ability to travel and work on customer sites for a number of continuous weeks.

Nice-to-have skills

• Working knowledge of microservices architectures and Domain-Driven Design approaches.
• Some experience and knowledge of ORMs like Hibernate or JPA.

Extra bonus skills (if missing, we will provide rapid onboarding enablement on these):

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

Successful candidates will engage with customer systems and may be exposed to highly confidential customer data, including but not limited to non-public information. For this reason, and due to the nature of the highly regulated industry in which our customers operate, successful candidates may be subject to enhanced background checks, security screenings, and possible constraints around the trading of securities. Successful candidates will understand these requirements and be willing to participate in enhanced screenings and constraints as required by MongoDB and its customers in connection with this role.

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.

MongoDB is committed to providing any necessary accommodations for individuals with disabilities within our application and interview process. To request an accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter.

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