
Principal Architect – Search
EBSCO Information Services
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Massachusetts • United States
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Salary
💰 $169,710 - $242,445 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Serve as the primary architect with a deep understanding of the EIS proprietary search platform, and design and implement the roadmap to a modern, scalable cloud-native search solution
- Champion the adoption of advanced search capabilities including vector embeddings, hybrid search, NLP, relevancy optimization, and end-to-end observability and telemetry for search performance
- Provide expert-level guidance in tuning OpenSearch clusters, including indexing strategies, data modeling, query optimization, and data lifecycle management
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering and architecture
- 5+ years of hands-on experience with OpenSearch or Elasticsearch at significant operational scale
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, MIS, Computer Engineering or other technical related degree or equivalent experience
- Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred, AWS OpenSearch Service a plus)
- Deep understanding of, distributed search and indexing architectures, cluster performance tuning and results ranking capabilities
- Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Java or Python
- Proven experience designing high availability, mission critical, fully automated, large scale search systems
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, Vision, Life and Disability Insurance and Flexible spending accounts
- Retirement Savings Plan
- Paid Parental Leave
- Holidays and Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Mentoring program
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Hard Skills & Tools
software engineeringsoftware architectureOpenSearchElasticsearchcloud platformsJavaPythonsearch system designdata modelingquery optimization