Forward Deployed Architect, Industry Solutions
Gurugram · 8+ years experience · Full-time · Hybrid · Posted Sep 15, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 8+ years experience
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- Gurugram
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 AI-native startups and approximately 75% of the Fortune 100, 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.
About the role
- The Forward Deployed Architect in the Industry Solutions Team acts as the technical design lead for engagements with independent software vendors (ISVs).
- This application architecture role focuses on designing how MongoDB integrates with and extends partner products, ensuring designs are practical, production-ready, and reusable.
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.
- Design coexistence architectures and migration paths including data flows, synchronization, and dual-run strategies.
- Lead design reviews and provide technical direction on schemas, queries, indexes, and performance.
- Design solutions across MongoDB Atlas, Enterprise Advanced, Kubernetes-based private clouds, and self-managed environments.
- Build reusable architecture patterns, migration playbooks, code templates, and decision frameworks.
- Read partner code and prototype critical paths.
- Act as the technical escalation point for Forward Deployed Engineers.
- Share recurring technical gaps and patterns with MongoDB Product and Engineering teams.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in backend engineering and application architecture, delivering production software products.
- Strong application-side MongoDB expertise including data modeling, aggregation, indexing, transactions, change streams, replication, sharding, and sizing.
- Application-level experience with at least one major relational database and integrating a new database into a large production codebase.
- Experience designing migrations of production workloads between relational databases and MongoDB.
- Strong SaaS and product-engineering knowledge including multi-tenancy, tenant isolation, versioned schemas, and cloud-native deployments.
- Ability to influence engineers and stakeholders without formal authority.
- Willingness to travel regularly to ISV partner locations.
- Must be based in Gurugram.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience working inside an ISV or product company in a forward-deployed, resident-architect, or embedded-architect role.
- Familiarity with event-driven architectures and technologies such as Kafka or Debezium.
- Experience with regulated or data-intensive industries and their security, compliance, and data-governance requirements.
- MongoDB certification.
- MongoDB Atlas experience.
- Experience with MongoDB’s broader product portfolio.
Benefits
- Employee affinity groups
- Fertility assistance
- Parental leave policy
Workplace
- Hybrid working model.
- Candidates must be based in Gurugram.
Skills
- MongoDB
- MongoDB Atlas
- Oracle
- PostgreSQL
- SQL Server
- Kubernetes
- Kafka
- Debezium
