Senior Solutions Architect (Search Specialist)

Overview

In this role you will act as a trusted pre-sales engineer focusing on Atlas Search within MongoDB’s data platform. You will guide customers from startups to enterprises in designing reliable, scalable search-enabled solutions and articulate their business value. You will collaborate with sales and product teams to address complex search deals, provide technical discovery, demos, and proofs of value, and help shape product feedback. This is a global, remote role with a strong emphasis on cross-functional impact and customer success.

Pay / Benefits

• generous parental leave policy
• fertility assistance
• accommodations for disabilities

Responsibilities

• Design systems, applications, and infrastructure to leverage MongoDB and the Atlas Developer Data Platform
• Advise customers on architectures, patterns, and strategies for MongoDB usage
• Articulate the business value of MongoDB solutions to executives and stakeholders
• Support sales with technical discovery, demos, proofs of value, sizing, and documentation across multiple opportunities
• Translate technical concepts into business benefits for management and executives
• Serve as a liaison to collect field feedback for Product Management
• Contribute to demand generation via industry events and account-based marketing
• Demonstrate resilience and sound judgment in business challenges
• Mentor other pre-sales team members and share standard methodologies
• Enable other SAs with search knowledge and build demo tools for conceptual demonstrations
• Assist in guiding Vector Search and AI/ML initiatives by aligning customer needs with Product Management
• Champion MongoDB values in interactions with internal teams and customers

Key requirements

• 3+ years of search expertise (Elasticsearch, Lucene, Solr, Algolia, Lucidworks, or similar)
• 3+ years of software development experience
• 3+ years of pre-sales experience with enterprise software
• Solid ability to code in two or more modern scripting languages (e.g., Python, Node.js) and/or major programming languages (e.g., Java, C#, C++)
• Experience with scalable and highly available distributed systems
• Excellent presentation and interpersonal skills
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
• Willingness to travel approximately 25% of the time

• presentation skills
• interpersonal communication
• collaboration
• Atlas Search
• Elasticsearch/Lucene/Solr/Algolia/Lucidworks
• two or more programming languages

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