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Job Summary:
O'Reilly Auto Parts is a company with a proven track record of growth and stability, and they are seeking a Senior Manager for Application Development focused on Search Platforms. This role involves providing technical leadership for search platform strategy, overseeing development teams, and ensuring the delivery of high-performing search experiences across digital commerce channels.
Responsibilities:
• Develop and execute an enterprise search strategy aligned with business and customer experience goals.
• Define, measure, and report on metrics to evaluate search effectiveness and relevance.
• Analyze search performance and customer behavior to identify optimization opportunities.
• Lead enterprise search platforms including Solr, Elasticsearch, and Amazon OpenSearch.
• Ensure high availability, scalability, and performance of search environments.
• Oversee search index design, schema configuration, and query pipelines.
• Drive search relevance tuning initiatives, including boosting, weighting, ranking strategies, and synonym management.
• Monitor platform performance and lead troubleshooting and optimization efforts.
• Manage the analysis, design, development, implementation, and testing of search-related applications using approved methodologies.
• Lead multiple development teams to deliver scalable, high-quality search solutions.
• Provide technical direction, coaching, and performance feedback to team members.
• Build effective teams, allocate resources, and promote engineering best practices.
• Lead hiring, promotion, and performance management decisions.
• Maintain accountability for all systems within the search platform domain.
• Assess project value and prioritize initiatives based on business impact.
• Partner with stakeholders to define requirements, evaluate options, and plan delivery.
• Manage capacity planning, resource allocation, and operating and capital budgets.
• Oversee third-party vendors and contract evaluations.
• Maintain awareness of emerging search and cloud technologies.
• Ensure compliance with development standards, security requirements, and organizational policies.
• Conduct research, feasibility studies, and technical evaluations.
• Coordinate work across multiple application development teams.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Strong search platform background with experience in Solr, Elasticsearch, and/or Amazon OpenSearch.
• Proven expertise in search relevance tuning, query optimization, and performance monitoring.
• Solid understanding of information retrieval principles and search algorithms.
• Engineering background with strong experience in Java (Python a plus).
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Familiarity with DevOps practices and tools such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience managing cloud-based search platforms.
• Strong problem-solving, communication, and project management skills.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
• 12+ years of software development and/or technical leadership experience.
• Proven experience leading application development teams focused on search platforms.
Preferred:
• Experience supporting e-commerce or enterprise-scale search platforms.
• Advanced education in project management or leadership.
• ITIL certification.
Company:
O’Reilly Auto parts is a specialty retailer of automotive aftermarket parts, tools, supplies, equipment and accessories. Founded in 1957, the company is headquartered in Springfield, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.