Enterprise Search Architect

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.