Capgemini

Apache Solr Search Engineer

Capgemini
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Base Salary

$90k - $120k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement scalable enterprise search solutions using Apache Solr and SolrCloud.
  • Configure collections, cores, schemas, managed schemas, dynamic fields, analyzers, and indexing pipelines.
  • Develop and optimize queries, filters, facets, boosting, highlighting, spell check, synonyms, and relevancy models.
  • Analyze and improve search performance, indexing efficiency, and query response times.
  • Administer and troubleshoot Solr deployments, including index corruption, replication, clusters, sharding, and high availability.
  • Integrate Solr with Java-based and web applications through REST APIs.
  • Collaborate with business analysts and application teams to define search requirements and recommend search architecture and best practices.

Requirements

  • Strong hands-on experience with Apache Solr and SolrCloud.
  • Expertise in indexing, tokenization, stemming, analyzers, filters, scoring, schemas, query parsers, faceting, highlighting, and relevancy tuning.
  • Experience with Solr administration, monitoring, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.
  • Strong understanding of REST APIs and integration patterns.
  • Experience with Java/J2EE-based applications, Linux environments, scripting, and Git.
  • Preferred experience with Elasticsearch, Guidewire applications, insurance or financial services, large-scale enterprise applications, AWS, Azure, or GCP.
  • Preferred exposure to CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, security, access control, and search governance.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package for regular, full-time employees, including paid time off, company holidays, personal days, and sick leave.
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage, or provincial healthcare coordination in Canada.
  • Retirement savings plans such as 401(k) in the U.S. or RRSP in Canada.
  • Life and disability insurance and employee assistance programs.
  • Additional benefits are available according to local policy and eligibility.

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About Capgemini

10,000+ employees

Capgemini is a global IT services and consulting firm that delivers strategy, cloud, AI, software engineering, and managed services to large enterprises and public-sector clients. Founded in 1967 and headquartered in Paris, it is publicly traded on Euronext Paris and operates in 50+ countries. The group expanded its engineering capabilities by acquiring Altran in 2020, now operating as Capgemini Engineering.

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