Principal Application Delivery Consultant, Lead Developer

MongoDB; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in data solutions seeks a lead technical software developer to drive modernization efforts for clients. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in Java and SQL, a strong history of leading projects, and the ability to innovate with GenAI solutions. This role will involve collaboration on dynamic cloud architectures, while leveraging modern development methodologies and practices.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience as a software developer and 3+ years as a technical lead.
• Strong proficiency in Java and SQL.
• Experience with Agile methodologies and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Lead the migration of legacy applications to MongoDB-based architectures.
• Innovate new development processes and tackle technical challenges.
• Provide technical direction and manage project risks effectively.

Skills

Java

Agile methodologies

SQL

Technical leadership

Strategic thinking

Job description

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 anywhere—on the edge, on premises, or across cloud providers. With offices worldwide and over 175,000 developers joining 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!

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.

Act as the lead technical software developer in a small Agile team delivering solutions onsite for customers focussed 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.

We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Atlanta, GA for our hybrid working model or remotely across the east coast.

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