Search Engineer / Architect

Search Engineer / Architect
Location: Oak Brook, IL or REMOTE
Type: 3+ month contract to hire
Contact: Mary at mnugent@forbestc.com 

Responsibilities:  

• Identify and execute data-driven, search optimization opportunities across all search platforms resulting in continuous, measurable, and tangible search effectiveness improvement
• Assist in the creation of a “search effectiveness” roadmap and strategy for all of search platforms
• Collaborate and align with members of the business who serve as platform owners for each of the search environments
• Maintain “cross platform” approach in identifying, assessing, and executing any search optimization/tuning opportunity
• Design and build search metrics/scorecard which provide visibility as to the overall “health” of search on each of the search platforms
• Identify, justify, and implement tools needed to maintain an agreed-upon degree of “search effectiveness”
• Establish and maintain relationships with external organizations/individuals who can provide guidance, input, and assistance regarding search-oriented direction and execution of search objectives
• Collaborate with IT Technical Engineering team members to ensure high performing, high availability search environment

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience required including a minimum of 2+ years of software development experience and 3+ years of direct SOLR Search responsibilities
• SOLR index creation
• Experience in relevancy and findability techniques
• Data retrieval via rest webservices / XML / JSON
• Performance testing
• Daily search administrative tasks including monitoring of search health while ensuring daily availability of search services and data
• Experience with integration of search results with web applications.
• Agile methodology experience
• Lucidworks Fusion expertise preferred
• Strong commitment to self-directed team concept
• Strong communication and leadership skills
• Ability to communicate effectively throughout all levels of the organization
• Must have the ability to lead, influence and own complex search projects
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science (or equivalent)

Contact:
Mary Nugent
Senior Recruiting Consultant
Forbes Technical Consulting LLC
401 N Franklin St- Suite 3S Chicago, IL 60654
www.forbestc.com