Senior Program Director - Modernization and Transformation Services

MongoDB’s mission is to empower innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries by unleashing the power of software and data. We enable organizations of all sizes to easily build, scale, and run modern applications by helping them modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our industry-leading developer data platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud database and is available in more than 115 regions across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. Atlas allows customers to build and run applications anywhere—on premises, or across cloud providers. With offices worldwide and over 175,000 new developers signing up to use MongoDB every month, it’s no wonder that leading organizations, like Samsung and Toyota, trust MongoDB to build next-generation, AI-powered applications.

MongoDB has evolved since starting out as the first truly scalable modern database management system built for internet scale and speed and is now focused on helping global enterprises modernize and transform the architecture of their legacy applications and migrate to a modern database, MongoDB. 

Legacy application modernization is a $4T market, where enterprises, large and small, are trapped with technical debt limiting their ability to make rapid changes to their business processes and leverage new technologies such as GenAI to improve productivity of their employees and serve their customers better than their competitors. 

The Modernization and Transformation group will drive legacy application modernization by leveraging its proprietary software platform, an Agentic AI-based software engineering and software development platform that reduces the amount of time needed to conduct core modernization activities by 10X, and produces better quality software that is future ready, i.e., with the ability to continue to maintain and build GenAI features as the business evolves. 

The Senior Program Director will be responsible for the overall success of the Modernization and Transformation of legacy applications and database program, and will have cross functional experience with ability to manage client expectations across client leadership - C-Suite to Delivery Leads, and internal teams across pre-sales, delivery, delivery excellence, finance, HR, and Operations. Unlike traditional programs at Systems Integrators most problems are solved with people and processes, MongoDB Modernization and Transformation programs are executed using its Agentic AI platform, less reliant on manual efforts for core software development activities, matched with skilled engineers and processes. This provides the candidate with unique opportunities to be at the cutting edge of technology revolution in software development. 

The candidate will have strong technical skills having worked in global technology services organizations driving large scale systems integration engagements that are commercially complex (fixed fees, milestone based, outcome or value based pricing terms). Each delivery team is global, spanning various geographies and continuously leveraging our technology platform to differentiate delivery capabilities with productivity and quality. While carrying out the responsibilities, the candidate will foster a culture of collaboration with internal and external stakeholders. 

We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Germany with the expectation of working at the client location a majority of the time, to develop trusted partner relationships during the execution of complex long-duration programs. German and English language proficiency is required. 

Position Expectations 

• Overall Program Planning
  • Establishing program objectives and goals
  • Establishing inter and intra dependencies to complete the program on-time
  • Developing a detailed program management plan that integrates scope, schedule, budget, risk, communication, quality, and integration strategies
• Contract and Finance Management
  • Expertise in creating, meticulously tracking, and strictly controlling a large, fixed budget. This includes accurate forecasting, variance analysis, and proactive cost optimization
  • Thorough understanding and effective management of the contractual terms such as scope, change control, milestone deliverables, quality and performance, financial payment terms and penalties
• Program Delivery and Governance
  • Developing and maintaining a highly detailed and integrated master schedule that accounts for all integration activities, critical milestones, and interdependencies
  • Identifying the critical path with precision and proactively managing activities along this path to ensure on-time delivery of the integrated system
  • Actively enforcing adoption of MongoDB’s Agentic AI platform for automating all aspects of legacy application modernization. This will be a key metric for the overall success of the program
  • Diligently monitoring progress against the established schedule, proactively identifying potential delays, and implementing effective mitigation strategies to stay on track
  • Managing resources and optimizing the allocation of resources with the right number, at the right time from the right geographies to meet demanding schedules without causing over or under utilization
  • Managing stakeholders communicating effectively to ensure customers and MongoDB’s objectives are met and to communicate program status on a weekly, monthly, and quarterly basis to various levels of customer organizations
  • Program status reporting to ensure all program metrics are tracked and reported to ensure programs are running on-time, on-budget while meeting customer expectations
  • Endure delivery processes are followed, which includes timely and accurate feedback to engineering teams to improve the Agenti AI platform as part of its on-going development and evolution
• Team Leadership and Management
  • Providing leadership to a matrixed team spanning different geographies and cultures to operate as one cohesive unit to achieve overall program objectives. 

Requirements 

• 10+ years of program management experience leading enterprise-scale technology transformation programs 
• Excellent customer interaction and presentation skills (ability to present to different audiences and bring the message across in a concise, professional manner) 
• Demonstrated belief in the power of stakeholder management and communications; track record of affecting change through stakeholder engagement 
• Services delivery experience with diverse teams that span geographies and cultures ● Ability to travel to customer sites to actively engage and build trusted partner relationships across the customer organisation

Nice-to-have skills 

• Agentic AI driven integrated development Platform 
• Legacy Modernization Methodologies 
• Document Database 
• Delivery Excellence

Successful candidates will engage with customer systems and may be exposed to highly confidential customer data, including but not limited to non-public information. For this reason, and due to the nature of the highly regulated industry in which our customers operate, successful candidates may be subject to enhanced background checks, security screenings, and possible constraints around the trading of securities. Successful candidates will understand these requirements and be willing to participate in enhanced screenings and constraints as required by MongoDB and its customers in connection with this role. 

To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees, 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. Learn more about what it’s like to work at MongoDB, and help us make an impact on the world! 

MongoDB is committed to providing any necessary accommodations for individuals with disabilities within our application and interview process. To request an accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter. 

MongoDB is an equal opportunities employer. 

REQ ID: 425354