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Search Architect

Job in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, 60290, USA
Listing for: TechDigital Group
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-07-22
Job specializations:
  • IT/Tech
    IT Project Manager, AWS
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 120000 - 160000 USD Yearly USD 120000.00 160000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below

Top 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, Document DB).
  • Dev Ops 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
    • Act as the primary onsite contact for all Lucidworks Fusion Search-related initiatives.
    • Gather and analyze business requirements from product owners and business stakeholders.
    • Translate business needs into technical solutions and implementation roadmaps.
    • Conduct requirement clarification sessions, design discussions, and solution walkthroughs.
    • Present search platform capabilities, enhancements, and release updates to stakeholders.
    • Drive prioritization of search enhancements and defect remediation activities.
  • Solution Architecture & Technical Leadership
    • Define end-to-end enterprise search architecture leveraging Lucidworks Fusion, Solr, AWS, and associated technologies.
    • Provide technical direction to offshore development and support teams.
    • Review solution designs, indexing strategies, search relevance tuning, and data integration approaches.
    • Establish best practices for Fusion configurations, pipelines, query profiles, collections, and data sources.
    • Lead root cause analysis for critical platform issues and performance bottlenecks.
  • Release & Deployment Management
    • Own monthly and quarterly release planning activities.
    • Review release scope, deployment plans, and implementation schedules.
    • Coordinate with Lucidworks support teams during major production deployments.
    • Govern release readiness reviews, risk assessments, and rollback planning.
    • Ensure successful deployment across Authoring, Production, and Backup environments.
  • Production Support Governance
    • Oversee production health monitoring and operational excellence.
    • Monitor ingestion pipelines, indexing jobs, query performance, and system stability.
    • Review daily delta ingestion reports and ensure data quality compliance.
    • Manage incident response, severity handling, and stakeholder communications.
    • Drive continuous improvement initiatives to minimize production issues.
  • Search Relevance & Optimization
    • Lead search relevance tuning and optimization initiatives.
    • Improve search ranking strategies, synonyms, boosts, facets, and query pipelines.
    • Analyze user search behavior and recommend platform improvements.
    • Drive search analytics and KPI-based optimization across business applications.
  • Environment & Quality Management
    • Govern QA environment setup and refresh activities.
    • Validate release readiness through functional, integration, and end-to-end testing.
    • Ensure Fusion configurations are properly migrated across environments.
    • Coordinate testing cycles with business users and QA teams.
  • Offshore Team Coordination
    • Provide day-to-day guidance to offshore developers, Dev Ops engineers, and support teams.
    • Review work estimates, sprint plans, and delivery commitments.
    • Ensure adherence to coding standards, release processes, and support procedures.
    • Facilitate daily standups, defect triages, and technical review sessions.
  • AWS & Microservices Oversight
    • Oversee AWS-hosted search-related services and integrations.
    • Coordinate support for microservices running on AWS Fargate, EC2, and Document DB environments.
    • Ensure application scalability, reliability, and performance compliance.
    • Drive CI/CD, infrastructure automation, and cloud optimization initiatives.
  • Vendor & Lucidworks Coordination
    • Coordinate with Lucidworks technical support teams for product issues and enhancements.
    • Track support tickets and escalation management.
    • Participate in…
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