Senior Java developer to design, build and tune Solr search solutions. Responsibilities include Solr 6.x+ implementations, Lucene API usage, data ingest/text extraction with Tika/OpenNLP, search relevancy tuning, SolrCloud/Zookeeper management, connector integration for CMS/datastores, CI/CD for deployments, and search workflow/customization (facets, synonyms, phrase/field search).
Title: Sr. Java Developer with (Solr)
Location: – Mooresville, NC
Rate: $Open
Duration: 6-8 Months
Requirements
- Needs strong Java development fundamentals, along with the Solr expertise.
- Hands on experience in using at least Solr 6.x, or above.
- Hands on experience in implementing data gathering & text extraction, tagging or document classification using frameworks like apache TIKA, and SOLR connectors for popular cms like teamsite, drupal, adobe-cq, file-systems, dbs or index update handlers.
- Hands on experience in writing & using OOTB & customized query relevancy techniques to boost & burry the documents using document rank and other attributes.
- Good knowledge on Search and Information retrieval concepts.
- Hands on experience of using Apache Lucene core APIs.
- Understanding of SOLR, SOLRCloud, LucidWork Fusion Search platform eco-systems,
- Understanding of data load & extract techniques to support natural language processing using Apache TIKA, Apache OpenNLP.
- Understanding of ‘keyword search’, natural language search’, intent & semantic based and cognitive search techniques.
- Experience in Customizing search workflows that includes faceted search, keywords search, phrase search, field search, query expansion using synonyms.
- Experience in search results tuning by optimizing query load, offline sorting, shard based search.
- Has experience in CICD for in-house & cloud based implementations.
- Has experience in Zookeeper to manage SOLR implementation for synchronization, fault tolerance, service registry.
Benefits
Note: If interested please send your updated resume to [email protected] and include your Rate requirement along with your contact details with a suitable time when we can reach you. If you know of anyone in your sphere of contacts, who would be a perfect match for this job then, we would appreciate if you can forward this posting to them with a copy to us.
We look forward to hearing from you at the earliest!
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