Senior Consulting Engineer

MongoDB
London, United Kingdom
RemoteCareer-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

Consulting engineers with cross-industry experience and a strong grasp of database technologies will find this senior role with high client interaction and influence over product development.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with 10+ years of experience in multiple industries and a technical background in enterprise software architecture
    — “10+ years of software development/consulting/support experience, preferably in a number of distinct industries/verticals
  • Individuals who thrive in client-facing roles and can translate complex technical concepts into clear communication
    — “Confidence speaking and presenting in a collaborative customer setting
  • Professionals with a track record of working with public sector organizations and adapting to diverse client environments
    — “Experience working with Public Sector customers

Things to consider

  • The role involves up to 15% travel for short client-site visits, which may require flexibility in work schedule
    — “Should be capable and comfortable with frequent travel for short trips to customer sites during the working week (up to 15%)
  • This is a senior-level role that expects a high level of commitment and billable utilization to ensure client success
    — “Maintain the required level of billable utilization

How to stand out

  • Emphasize your experience with enterprise-scale systems and your ability to influence product development through client feedback
    — “Partner with Product and Engineering teams to influence the direction of the MongoDB product roadmap
  • Highlight your ability to deliver training sessions and work across multiple roles (architect, developer, operations)
    — “Deliver customer classroom-based training to architect, developer, and operations roles
  • Demonstrate your ability to work across different database technologies and adapt to new environments
    — “Experience with databases such as MongoDB, Oracle, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL
  • Showcase your cross-stack experience and how it helps solve complex, technically sophisticated problems
    — “Solves technically sophisticated problems, gains incredible cross-stack experience
  • Demonstrate your capability to work remotely in Great Britain and manage client expectations effectively
    — “This role will be based remotely in Great Britain
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · TeamLevel · Senior

Derived from job-description analysis by Serendipath's career intelligence engine.

What success looks like

  • customer implementations
  • training delivery
  • product roadmap communication
Typical background
10+ years of software development/consulting/support experience

Skills & requirements

Required

Software DevelopmentDatabase ManagementEnterprise-scale ArchitecturesLinux DiagnosticsCustomer Management

Preferred

Public Sector ExperienceWindows Tuning

Stack & domain

Software DevelopmentConsultingSupportDatabasesLinux DiagnosticsTuningEnterprise-scale Software ArchitecturesApplication Development MethodologiesSoftware DeploymentOperationsTrainingCommunicationCustomer ManagementTravelPublic SectorMongoDBJavaC#PythonNode.jsRubyGoOracleMS SQL ServerPostgreSQLProblem-solvingCollaborationPresentationMentoring

About the role

Original posting from MongoDB

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!

MongoDB PS exists to support the development of our customers’ vision, accelerate customers’ time to value, and drive a multitude of customer adoption scenarios – from building new solutions to modernizing legacy applications or migrating to cloud. Our consulting solutions ensure that organizations get the best out of MongoDB.

This role will be based remotely in Great Britain

We’re looking for someone with:

10+ years of software development/consulting/support experience, preferably in a number of distinct industries/verticals

Competence in at least one of the following languages (in no particular order): Java, C#, Python, Node.js (JavaScript), Ruby, Go

Experience with databases such as MongoDB, Oracle, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL

Familiarity with Linux diagnostics and tuning; Windows tuning knowledge is a plus

Familiarity with enterprise-scale software architectures, application development methodologies, and software deployment and operations

Excellent analytical, diagnostic skills, and problem-solving skills

High motivation for a role that combines deep technical and customer-management dimensions

Confidence speaking and presenting in a collaborative customer setting

Should be capable and comfortable with frequent travel for short trips to customer sites during the working week (up to 15%)

Experience working with Public Sector customers

What you will do in this role:

Contribute to customer implementations at any or all phases of the application lifecycle: portfolio assessment, application planning and design, deployment architectures, development and build, integration and release configuration, system testing, production operations, application optimization, and best practices adoption

Deliver customer classroom-based training to architect, developer, and operations roles

Work as part of a wider delivery team comprising fellow consulting engineers, project managers, and account teams

Cultivate your individual MongoDB reputation 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

As a Senior Consulting Engineer, you will be successful in this role when you can execute the following:

Become a field expert in “everything MongoDB”

Communicate complex technical proposals simply and convincingly to a wide range of audiences

Gain a reputation as a trusted advisor with your clients, large and small

Ensure your client’s success with their MongoDB endeavors

Maintain the required level of billable utilization

Influence MongoDB product development by contributing experience from the field

Successfully communicate the product roadmap to external clients

Constantly work on improving yourself, our products, and our team

About MongoDB

MongoDB is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market. We have redefined the data platform for the AI era, enabling builders to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified data platform, the most widely available, globally distributed data platform on the market, helps organizations modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our cloud-native platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud data platform and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

With offices worldwide and over 67,000 customers, including 75% of the Fortune 100 and AI-native startups, relying on MongoDB for their most important applications, we’re powering the next era of software.

Our compass at MongoDB is our Leadership Commitment, guiding how and why we make decisions, show up for each other, and win. It’s what makes us MongoDB. 

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!

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.

MongoDB is an equal opportunities employer.

Req ID: 3273514642

Source: MongoDB careers

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