EBSCO Information Services

Principal Architect – Search

EBSCO Information Services

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: MassachusettsUnited States

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Salary

💰 $169,710 - $242,445 per year

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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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software engineeringsoftware architectureOpenSearchElasticsearchcloud platformsJavaPythonsearch system designdata modelingquery optimization