Senior Partner Solutions Architect

• 5 to 8 years of related industry experience, ideally 2 years of experience in a partner facing role.
• Minimum of 2 years experience with modern scripting languages (e.g. Python, Node.js, SQL) and/or popular programming languages (e.g. C/C++, Java, C#) in a professional capacity
• Experience implementing scalable and highly available distributed systems in the cloud and on-prem
• Demonstrated ability to work with customers to review complex architecture of existing applications, providing guidance on how to improve by leveraging technology
• Excellent presentation, communication, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to convey complex technical and business concepts in a clear and compelling manner to technology and business leadership.
• Ability to work with a cross functional sales team to formulate and execute an end to end deal cycle.
• The ability to travel up to 25%
• A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
• Experience developing, deploying, or supporting applications with any of the major cloud providers
• Experience working in a technical pre-sales capacity
• Experience with database programming and data models
• Experience in data engineering or AI/ML projects
• Understanding of popular sales methodologies/ frameworks such as MEDDPICC/ Command of the Message
• A MongoDB Certification
• A Cloud Provider Certification

What you do at MongoDB

• You work with our advisory consulting partners on reference architectures, patterns, and AI blueprints for making the best use of MongoDB
• You confidently articulate the business value of MongoDB solutions and bridge this to technical value
• You partner with our account teams to help ensure success in accounts ranging from small startups to large enterprises
• You align to support sales with activities such as technical discovery, demos, proof of value, presentation, sizing, and documentation of technical decision criteria; working across a number of opportunities in parallel
• You translate technical concepts and patterns into business benefits for management and executives
• You act as a liaison, gathering feedback from the field to relay back to the Product Management team
• You will have the opportunity to help drive demand through participation in both industry-known trade-shows as well account-based marketing events
• You demonstrate resilience and sound judgment in dealing with business challenges
• You have an ability to drive customer demand within a sales territory, by being self-motivated, proactive and understanding the importance of a strong sense of urgency
• You proactively seek opportunities to support and mentor other pre-sales team members and share best practices
• You have situational awareness and react appropriately in group settings

Particularly with Partners

• You successfully build and maintain effective relationships with technical partners, gaining their trust, influencing their decisions, and reinforcing their understanding of how MongoDB adds value to the broader ecosystem and needs of clients
• You understand the importance of a strong sense of urgency reflected through ability to drive partner demand within the sales territory
• You align to drive partner Center of Excellence strategies and create demand for MongoDB solutions
• You have a strong understanding of partner business model, value, and needs
• You demonstrate the ability to anticipate and respond appropriately to partner objections
• You are seen as a “Trusted Advisor” with technical partner stakeholders
• You team up to build joint proposals with partners for the client
• You drive strategy and implementation of solution architecture for products and services within the partner ecosystem of the region
• You can demonstrate technical expertise of general IT and application operations through mentorship of local partner organizations
• You create strategies that map specific industry trends to account base within local partner organizations
• You create strategies that map competitive threats within local partner organizations

What you will learn

• The rapidly expanding MongoDB product suite, including:
• Core database server
• Atlas (fully managed cloud database service)
• Atlas Data Lake
• Atlas Full-Text Search
• Realm
• Charts
• Other Tools and connectors - Ops/Cloud Manager, Compass, Connector for BI, Connector for Spark
• Market-relevant, complementary technologies e.g. Apache Kafka, Kubernetes
• Modern and popular architecture design patterns, methodologies and concerns e.g. microservices, event-driven architectures, DevOps, cloud, security
• Sales techniques and related soft skills - presentations, demonstrations, whiteboarding, discovery, objection handling
• Exposure to a wide variety of market verticals and broad spectrum of interesting use cases