Mongodb Technical Architect

4+ years of experience in data engineering or architecture, with a significant, up-to-date focus on MongoDB.
Proven, hands-on experience designing and implementing MongoDB sharding in a production environment.
Strong proficiency in at least one modern programming language (Typescript/Node.js preferred), with demonstrated experience making changes to an application codebase.
A strong collaborative mindset with a history of working effectively in cross-functional teams to achieve shared goals.
Deep, practical understanding of MongoDB internals, including the aggregation framework, storage engines, indexing, and replication.
Excellent async/written communication skills with the ability to facilitate technical discussions and build consensus.

Collaborate closely with engineering and product teams to design and evolve the end-to-end architecture for our MongoDB environment, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance.
Dive deep into our application codebase when needed to make specific, planned changes to the data access layer, queries, and services to support the architecture evolution.
Develop and promote best practices for data modeling, schema design, and query performance.
Serve as a subject matter expert for complex database performance issues, partnering with teams to diagnose, resolve, and learn from production incidents.
Develop scripts, documentation, and automation that empower developers to work more effectively and safely with the database.

Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform or Pulumi.
Experience with running MongoDB in Atlas.
Familiarity with other database technologies (e.g., PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch).
Experience with large-scale data migration projects.