16 days ago
Base Salary
$90k - $120k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable enterprise search solutions using Apache Solr.
- Configure and manage Solr collections, cores, schemas, managed schemas, dynamic fields, and indexing pipelines.
- Develop and optimize search queries, filters, facets, boosting, highlighting, query parsers, and relevancy models.
- Implement full-text search, autocomplete, spell checking, synonym management, and ranking algorithms.
- Analyze and improve search performance, indexing efficiency, and query response times.
- Integrate Solr with Java-based and web applications through REST APIs.
- Troubleshoot search issues, index corruption, replication, and cluster-related problems.
- Support SolrCloud deployments, sharding, replication, and high-availability configurations.
- Collaborate with business analysts and application teams to define search requirements.
- Recommend search architecture, scalability approaches, and best practices.
Requirements
- Strong hands-on experience with Apache Solr and SolrCloud.
- Expertise in indexing, tokenization, stemming, analyzers, filters, scoring, relevancy tuning, boosting, faceting, and highlighting.
- Experience with Solr administration, performance tuning, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
- Strong understanding of REST APIs and integration patterns.
- Experience with Java/J2EE-based applications.
- Familiarity with Linux environments and scripting.
- Experience with version control tools such as Git.
- Preferred experience with Elasticsearch and comparative search architectures.
- Preferred experience implementing Apache Solr solutions in Guidewire environments.
- Knowledge of AWS, Azure, or GCP is preferred.
- Experience with Guidewire, insurance, financial services, or large-scale enterprise applications is preferred.
- Exposure to CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, security, access control, and search governance is preferred.
Benefits
- Paid time off including vacation, company holidays, personal days, and sick leave, with vacation generally ranging from 12 to 25 days based on employee grade.
- 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.
- Employee assistance programs and other benefits based on local policy and eligibility.
- Regular full-time employees receive a comprehensive benefits package.
About Capgemini
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.