Solstice | Kin + Carta is a modern software engineering firm that helps Fortune 500 companies seize new opportunities through groundbreaking digital solutions. As strategists and consultants, we help organizations evolve their digital strategy to solve mission-critical problems. As designers and developers, we build incredible digital solutions that transcend a standalone product and transform an organization’s relationship with its customers. Solid communication skills, a servant leadership attitude, a love of learning and an analytical mind are a must to be successful at Solstice | Kin + Carta. We are currently seeking a Senior Search Engineer to join our Engineering Practice on a full time basis. 

Knowledge & Experience:

• Experience in designing and building solutions across multiple use cases on search platforms (e.g. Elastic, Solr, Lucene, Lucidworks, Attivio, Coveo).
• Understanding of search architectures and scalability for volume, redundancy, and performance scaling including techniques such as replicas and sharding.
• Experience using the Search APIs to deliver highly performant custom UIs in varying languages (e.g. Node.js, Java, .NET)
• Defining data ingest pipelines to index, transform and enrich structured and unstructured data types from Enterprise and Cloud data sources.
• Experience with security integration (Role-based Access Control against Enterprise Data Repositories, Authentication, Encryption) in a search environment.
• Experience with evaluating existing search deployments and identifying optimizations in terms of indexing, search and query performance tuning, security, and administration.
• Knowledge of search architectures for different scenarios (e.g. Search vs Time Series, Single Region vs Multi-Region) and best practice in each scenario
• Configuration of search settings and understanding of the techniques used in supporting common end-user search requirements such as multiple languages, autosuggest, spelling suggestions, separators, synonyms, and ngrams.
• Configuration of query relevancy models including approaches such as term-centric and centric. Subsequent relevancy tuning using dynamic query approaches
• Experience with best practices for bulk indexing, backup, and recovery
• Experience with operational support including monitoring for large search deployments and the creation of reporting dashboards for this purpose
• Understanding of system metrics (operations) and search analytics (end-user interactions)
• Experience with search clusters at scale in Cloud and On-Prem environments
• Experience building solutions for high volume data ingestion using real time integration technologies (e.g Kafka, Storm, Redis) 
• Experience architecting search solutions in a Cloud Native landscape using containerization, orchestration, and microservices is advantageous
• Experience architecting solutions utilizing Machine Learning and other AI technologies is advantageous
• Experience with a variety of search and analytics platforms is advantageous.
• Formal certification is a bonus but not required

Responsibilities:

• Working with a Search Architect to define how a Search platform can best meet the customers’ goals and objectives
• Ownership of the deployment, configuration, testing and support of this platform
• Actively participating in all phases of the CXDD delivery process from initial alignment to release and support.
• Knowledge transfer of the search platform deployment to other team or client technical resources for ongoing support.
• Developing and maintaining a deep understanding of search products and solutions.
• Serving as the technical point of contact for search engineering within your capability, practice, and circles.
• Creating collateral, contributing to projects and collaborating with other Solsties to meet individual client needs.
• Deepening your skills through self-driven education while taking advantage of the professional development opportunities provided by Solstice | Kin + Carta.

We welcome Solsties to show up as their full selves everyday. Because this is so important to us, Solstice | Kin + Carta is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.