Forward Deployed Architect, Industry Solutions

About the role

MongoDB is expanding its Industry Solutions Team, a flexible, globally distributed group that helps customers and partners modernize applications and data platforms with MongoDB. As a Forward Deployed Architect in the ISV practice, you will be the technical design lead for engagements with independent software vendors, working with ISV development leaders, senior engineers and Forward Deployed Engineers to define how MongoDB integrates with and extends the partner's product. This is an application architecture role, not a database administration or consulting role. The position is hybrid and open to candidates based in Gurugram.

Key responsibilities

• Lead technical design for ISV engagements by defining MongoDB data models, access patterns, indexing and integration approaches
• Design MongoDB as a supported platform option alongside Oracle, PostgreSQL or SQL Server, including persistence abstractions, feature parity, backend behavior and certification requirements
• Design coexistence architectures and migration paths, including data flows, synchronization, consistency, application refactoring, dual-run strategies, validation and controlled cutover
• Lead design reviews, review schemas, queries, indexes, code and performance against realistic partner workloads
• Design solutions across MongoDB Atlas, Enterprise Advanced, Kubernetes-based private clouds and on-premises environments
• Build reusable architecture patterns, migration playbooks, code templates and decision frameworks
• Read partner code, prototype critical paths, act as technical escalation point for engineers and share technical gaps with Product and Engineering teams

Required profile

• 8+ years of backend engineering and application architecture experience delivering production software
• Strong SaaS and product-engineering knowledge, including multi-tenancy, tenant isolation, versioned schemas and backward compatibility
• Ability to influence engineers and stakeholders without formal authority, explain trade-offs and identify risks early
• Willingness to travel regularly to ISV partner locations

Required skills

• Application-side MongoDB expertise: data modeling, aggregation, indexing, transactions, change streams, replication, sharding and sizing
• Experience integrating a new database into a large production codebase and migrating production workloads between relational databases and MongoDB
• Experience with at least one major relational database and dual-write or CDC patterns
• Nice to have: ISV or resident-architect experience, Kafka or Debezium, regulated industry experience, MongoDB certification or Atlas experience