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
To apply for this job email your details to mnugent@forbestc.com