Senior Solutions Architect (Search Specialist)

The worldwide data management software market is massive (According to IDC, the data management software market is forecast to be $94 billion in 2023 growing to approximately $153 billion in 2027, representing a 13% compound annual growth rate). At MongoDB we are transforming industries and empowering developers to build amazing apps that people use every day. We are the leading developer data platform and the first database provider to IPO in over 20 years. Join our team and be at the forefront of innovation and creativity. We are looking for hardworking technologists to join our Pre-Sales organization to ensure that our growth is grounded and guided by strong technical alignment with our platform and the needs of our customers. MongoDB Pre-Sales Solution Architects are responsible for guiding our customers and users to craft and build reliable, scalable systems using our data platform. Our team is made up of hardworking software architects, entrepreneurs, and developers who take direct responsibility for customer success, including the design of their software, deployment, and operations. You'll work closely with our sales reps and play a key role in winning deals and driving the business forward. You'll be a trusted advisor to a wide range of users from startups to the world's largest enterprise IT organizations. As MongoDB continues to expand its product offerings and features, MongoDB is seeking an expert in search. This role will focus on being a product specialist of Search, including Vector Search, Embeddings and Rerankers, within the presales organization. Beyond the normal tasks of a MongoDB Solutions Architect, this specialist role will operate in a worldwide team, assist in the most complex search deal cycles, assist in search enablement, and work closely with the Atlas Search product team to close the feedback loop and further enhance the product moving forward. This role will be based remotely in Barcelona, Spain. As an ideal candidate, you will have • 3+ years of search or information retrieval expertise (Elasticsearch, Lucene, Solr, Algolia, Milvus, Qdrant, or similar) • 3+ years of software development experience or pre-sales experience with enterprise software • Excellent communication skills in English and Spanish • Solid understanding and ability to code with two or more modern scripting languages (e.g. Python, Node.js, etc) and/or popular programming languages (e.g. C, C++, C#, Java, etc) • Solid understanding of how to use AI agents in day-to-day work • Experience with scalable and highly available distributed systems • Excellent presentation and interpersonal skills • A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience • Ability to travel approximately 20% of the time You may also have • Experience with building and/or deploying AI agentic applications • Experience selling databases and/or deploying applications with any of the major cloud providers • Experience with database programming and data models • A MongoDB Certification • A major cloud provider certification What you do at MongoDB • Design systems, applications, and infrastructure to help drive software development projects using MongoDB and the Atlas data platform • Advise customers on architectures, patterns, and strategies for making the best use of MongoDB • Expertly articulate the business value of MongoDB solutions • 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 • Translate technical concepts and patterns into business benefits for management and executives • Act as a liaison, collecting feedback from the field to relay back to the Product Management team • Help drive demand through participation in both industry-known trade-shows as well account-based marketing events • Demonstrate resilience and sound judgment in dealing with business challeng