Lead Consultant, Application Development

4 weeks ago


Melbourne, Australia MongoDB Full time

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.

This role will be based remotely in Melbourne, Australia.

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 projectsInnovate new development processes, technologies and approaches to projects as they evolve, especially from emerging GenAI capabilitiesParticipates as the lead software developer on small Agile teams delivering software based solutions for migrating and modernizing customer legacy applications to MongoDBExpand migration playbooks where applicable and invigorate the team to be prepared to innovate to fill in gaps with creative solutions to solve challenges on each specific project, using experience to prioritise the best ideasActively drive the technical part of sprint grooming, planning, and showcases alongside the project manager, providing ideas, suggestions and guidance to the rest of the teamProvide technical direction to the team and partner with the project manager on projects to drive these to a successful conclusion, including managing technical challenges and risks and how they can be mitigatedStudy 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 projectBe 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 changeFace off to lead technical personnel on the customer side, to resolve issues and identify solutions

Requirements:

7+ years of experience working as a software developer3+ years of experience as a technical leadStrong proficiency in JavaStrong experience in building applications that interact with relational databases using SQLSome experience of Enterprise Java (J2EE / JavaEE / Spring) application architecturesAbility to travel and work on customer sites for a number of continuous weeksHistory of delivering high cadence modern applications with applied Agile methodologies, test-first development approaches, adopting CI/CD pipelines and using Git version controlProven experience in leading software/application development projectsAble to provide technical direction and authority to the whole delivery team (to developers as well as the project manager and other customer and executive stakeholders)Strong written, verbal and presentation skills when collaborating with team members and with external stakeholders within the wider MongoDB organization and the customer’s organizationStrong strategic thinking capabilities to understand and align technical work with business goals

 Nice-to-have skills:

Working knowledge of microservices architectures and Domain-Driven Design approachesSome experience and knowledge of PythonSome experience and knowledge of JavaScript/Node.jsSome 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 LLMsPractical experience of using MongoDB

To drive our employees' personal growth and business impact, 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., and help us make an impact on the world


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