SOLR & SpaCy

Job Description:

• We are seeking an experienced Senior Consultant with strong expertise in Apache SOLR SpaCy and enterprise search technologies to design develop and optimize intelligent search and NLP driven solutions
• The ideal candidate should have hands on experience in implementing scalable search platforms text analytics information retrieval and Natural Language Processing NLP solutions for enterprise applications

Key Responsibilities:

• Design develop and maintain enterprise search solutions using Apache SOLR
• Build and optimize search indexes query processing ranking faceting and relevancy tuning
• Develop NLP solutions using SpaCy for text extraction entity recognition classification and semantic search
• Implement advanced search features such as autocomplete spell correction synonym handling and relevance optimization
• Work closely with business stakeholders to understand search and content discovery requirements
• Integrate search platforms with enterprise applications APIs and data sources
• Monitor and improve search performance scalability and availability
• Develop custom NLP pipelines and machine learning based text processing solutions
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues related to search indexing and query execution
• Mentor junior team members and contribute to solution architecture and design discussions

Technical Requirements:

• Strong experience with Apache SOLR Lucene
• Hands on expertise in SpaCy and Python based NLP development
• Strong programming experience in Python Java or related technologies
• Experience with information retrieval text mining and search relevance tuning
• Good understanding of REST APIs and microservices architecture
• Experience working with JSON XML and large scale structured unstructured datasets
• Knowledge of indexing tokenization stemming and ranking algorithms
• Familiarity with Git CI CD pipelines and Agile development methodologies

Additional Responsibilities:

• Experience with Elasticsearch OpenSearch
• Exposure to Machine Learning and Generative AI use cases
• Knowledge of Transformer models BERT or LLM based search implementations
• Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure AWS or GCP
• Knowledge of vector databases and semantic search technologies

Preferred Skills: