Senior MongoDB Platform Lead

Bank of America; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 92,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Bank of America is seeking an experienced MongoDB Database Administrator to design and manage scalable MongoDB deployments, including sharded clusters and replica sets, in enterprise environments.

This role emphasizes performance tuning, high availability, and automation with Python and shell scripting, while collaborating with cross-functional teams to support mission-critical applications.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of job related experience.
• Experience with MongoDB in production environments.
• Knowledge of sharding, replication, and data modeling.

Responsibilities

• Manages and prioritises multiple tasks and assignments for the team including tracking tasks and tickets in system(s) of record, ensuring enterprise service level agreements are met, and participating in defect, incident, problem, and change review meetings and release activities.
• Provides point of escalation for team members, peers, and partner teams, and shares the leadership Point of Contact for triage of high priority incidents or consulting engagements.
• Performs all responsibilities of team members from applicable teams.
• Works with appropriate teams to ensure alerts, monitoring, dashboards, and processes are established appropriately for new projects and initiatives.
• Participates and helps with resource interviews and onboarding processes.
• Performs access reviews, conducts compliance activities, and serves as a delegate for administrative processes.
• Creates the on call rotation schedule and ensures support for off hours, weekends, and release windows.
• Manage backup, recovery, and disaster recovery processes to ensure data integrity and business continuity.
• Administer and maintain MongoDB production environments, ensuring high availability, scalability, and reliability.
• Design and implement MongoDB sharded clusters and replica sets, enabling horizontal scalability and fault tolerance.
• Define efficient data models and schema designs aligned with application requirements and performance goals.
• Optimize database performance through query tuning, indexing strategies, and execution plan analysis.
• Monitor system performance and conduct capacity planning to support growing workloads.
• Troubleshoot and resolve database performance issues, replication errors, and production incidents, ensuring minimal downtime.

Skills

MongoDB

Sharding

Replication

Data Modeling

Performance Tuning

Python

Shell Scripting

Linux/Unix

Cloud Atlas / AWS / Azure / GCP

Tools

Jira

Job description

Bank of America is seeking an experienced MongoDB Database Administrator to design and manage scalable MongoDB deployments, including sharded clusters and replica sets, in enterprise environments.

This role emphasizes performance tuning, high availability, and automation with Python and shell scripting, while collaborating with cross-functional teams to support mission-critical applications.