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Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering (ISV Practice)

MongoDB· Engineering / ISV Practice
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Hybrid (Gurugram, India)full-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Manager leading a team of Forward Deployed Engineers focused on integrating MongoDB capabilities into partner products for independent software vendors (ISVs), driving repeatable engagement models, and delivering production-oriented solutions with partners.

Responsibilities

  • Lead, coach, develop, hire, onboard, and retain a team of Forward Deployed Engineers while creating a high-performing and inclusive engineering culture
  • Set priorities and allocate capacity across multiple partner engagements, enabling parallel work
  • Establish a repeatable engagement model from qualification through build, validation, documentation, and handoff
  • Guide the team in building production MongoDB integrations, application capabilities, migration approaches, deployment patterns, and operational guidance
  • Ensure engagements produce reusable architectures, implementation patterns, tooling, documentation, and lessons learned
  • Coordinate with Solutions Architecture, Solution Validation, Technical Services, Sales, Product, Engineering, and partner stakeholders on scope, ownership, validation, handoff, escalation, and support boundaries
  • Engage directly with strategic partners when senior technical or leadership involvement is needed
  • Measure team impact through partner adoption, production outcomes, reusable assets, delivery quality, and progress across strategic motions

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience in software, systems, platform, product, or solutions engineering, including experience managing senior engineers and delivering complex, multi-month technical initiatives
  • Strong people-leadership skills, including coaching, feedback, performance management, career development, and aligning technical and business stakeholders without formal authority
  • Strong technical understanding of production software, distributed systems, application integration, data platforms, cloud environments, or modernization initiatives
  • Experience working directly with ISVs, partners, customers, or external engineering teams to translate ambiguous needs into clear priorities and delivery plans
  • Experience building reusable engineering capabilities, reference implementations, integration patterns, or platforms, and improving engineering standards and operating models
  • Willingness to travel for partner engagements and key team activities

Skills

Required:People leadershipTechnical strategy and governanceDistributed systemsPartner engagement

Benefits

  • Competitive salary
  • Benefits package (details not specified in description)
  • Parental leave and fertility assistance referenced in culture section
  • Inclusive engineering culture and wellbeing initiatives
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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