Role: Enterprise Search Architect
Location: Chicago, IL (Onsite) | Now open to REMOTE with occasional travel
Experience: 13+ Years
Tops Skills:
- Lucidworks Fusion
- Apache Solr
- Fusion pipelines, query workflows, collections, and connectors
Skillset Details:
Required
- 12+ years of enterprise search experience.
- 6+ years of Lucidworks Fusion implementation and support experience.
- Strong expertise in Apache Solr architecture and administration.
- Experience with Fusion pipelines, query workflows, collections, and connectors.
- Search relevance tuning and analytics experience.
- Production support and release management experience.
- AWS Cloud (EC2, ECS/Fargate, S3, Lambda, DocumentDB).
- DevOps and CI/CD implementation.
- Strong client-facing communication and stakeholder management skills.
Preferred
- Generative AI and Agentic AI exposure.
- Semantic Search and Vector Search implementations.
- Java, Python, REST APIs.
- Microservices architecture.
- E-commerce search domain experience.
Job Description/Responsibilities:
- Client & Business Stakeholder Engagement
- Solution Architecture & Technical Leadership
- Release & Deployment Management
- Production Support Governance
- Search Relevance & Optimization
- Environment & Quality Management
- Offshore Team Coordination
- AWS & Microservices Oversight
- Vendor & Lucidworks Coordination
- Innovation & AI/Search Modernization
Expected Deliverables
- Search roadmap and architecture governance.
- Monthly release management and production deployment oversight.
- Search relevance improvement initiatives.
- Incident management and RCA documentation.
- Performance optimization recommendations.
- Technical leadership for offshore teams.
- Business stakeholder reporting and executive updates.
- AI-powered search modernization strategy.