Search Solution Architect
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. Solstice | Kin + Carta is seeking a Search Solution Architect to join our Engineering Practice on a full time basis.
Knowledge & Experience:
- Experience architecting search solutions using search platforms (e.g. Elastic, Solr, Lucene, Lucidworks, Attivio, Coveo)
- Experience sizing and scaling large volume production search clusters for optimal storage and performance
- Experience of architecting search clusters at scale in both Cloud and On-Prem environments
- Knowledge of different search and analytics architectures for different scenarios (e.g. Search vs Time Series, Single Region vs Multi-Region) and best practice in each scenario
- Experience architecting solutions for high volume data ingestion using real-time integration technologies (e.g Kafka, Storm, Redis)
- Experience architecting solutions using the Search APIs to deliver highly performant custom UIs in varying languages (e.g. Node.js, Java, .NET)
- Experience with security integration (Role-Based Access Control, Authentication, Encryption) in a search environment.
- Experience with evaluating existing search architectures and identifying optimizations in terms of indexing, search and query performance tuning, security, and administration.
- Experience architecting search solutions using different data stores (SQL, NoSQL) and data sources (HTTP, File System, Logs etc.)
- 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
- Certified status is a distinct advantage
Responsibilities:
- Developing a deep understanding of customers’ goals and objectives, and defining how the search solution can best be used to address their needs.
- Actively participating in all phases of the CXDD delivery process from initial alignment to release and support.
- Developing and maintaining a deep understanding of search products and solutions.
- Serving as a technical point of contact for search architecture within your capability, practice, and circles.
- Advising the sales team on effective ways of positioning search solutions and services.
- 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.