Senior Consulting Engineer

The Role

We are seeking a Senior Consulting Engineer to join our Application Modernization Platform (AMP) organization. As a Senior Consulting Engineer, you will plan and lead the technical delivery of data migration engagements end-to-end, design and operate change data capture (CDC) pipelines, and work closely with enterprise customers.

Responsibilities

Delivery

• Plan and lead the technical delivery of data migration engagements end-to-end: source estate assessment, migration strategy and wave planning, schema and data-model transformation, pipeline build, validation, and production cutover with minimal downtime
• Design and operate change data capture (CDC) pipelines for zero and near-zero-downtime migrations using Kafka and the connector ecosystem, Debezium and comparable log-based CDC tooling, and cloud-native replication services
• Bring genuine platform depth on the estates our customers are leaving: Cassandra data modeling and anti-patterns, Cosmos DB (Core and Mongo API) partitioning and RU economics, DocumentDB's compatibility surface
• Work shoulder to shoulder with enterprise customers - architects, DBAs, platform teams and executives - from whiteboard to war room
• Own the full consulting lifecycle for your engagements, from planning and agenda-setting through post-engagement follow-up

Pre-sales and Growth

• Partner with Solutions Architects, Engagement Managers and account teams to scope and size migration opportunities
• Cultivate your reputation as a migrations SME and trusted advisor, internally and in the market
• Identify services opportunities in our customers, new workloads or estates to be migrated or product improvements the customer could benefit from

Building the Practice

• Build and harden the AI tooling that makes migrations faster and safer
• Turn field experience into reusable assets: migration playbooks, reference architectures, estimation models, tooling improvements and enablement for the wider team
• Partner with Product and Engineering to bring field reality into MongoDB's product and migration-tooling roadmap

Requirements

• Professional fluency in German is required
• Excellent analytical, diagnostic and problem-solving skills
• Degree in Computer Science or a similar technical field
• 5+ years in software engineering, data engineering, or consulting delivery roles centred on data platforms and data movement at production scale
• Hands-on experience with at least one of: Apache Cassandra, Azure Cosmos DB, Amazon DocumentDB, or another distributed NoSQL platform
• Real-world CDC and streaming-pipeline experience: Kafka or Confluent Platform, connectors, Debezium or equivalent
• Solid grounding in relational databases (Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL or MySQL)
• Competence in at least one programming language (Java, Python, Node.js, C#, Go or similar)
• Excellent customer interaction and presentation skills
• An entrepreneurial bias

Nice to Have

• Experience building with LLMs beyond personal productivity
• Migration or replication tooling experience: Spark or Flink-based pipelines, dual-write patterns, cloud DMS-class services, data-validation frameworks
• One or more cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) at architecture depth
• Experience on the vendor or consulting side of competitive platform displacements
• Practical experience with MongoDB
• Fluency in a second European language relevant to this market

Practicalities

• Travel up to approximately 30% in normal circumstances, primarily within EMEA