Apache Solr & SolrCloud Search Architect

Capgemini; Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 48,000 - 74,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

Retirement benefits

Job summary

Tundra Technical Solutions is seeking an experienced Apache Solr Search Specialist to design, develop, optimize, and support enterprise search solutions in a contract capacity. The role focuses on Solr/SolrCloud architecture, indexing pipelines, and scaling search across enterprise applications.

The ideal candidate will implement full-text search, autocomplete, and ranking; tune relevancy, manage schemas, and integrate Solr with Java-based apps via REST APIs.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with Apache Solr / SolrCloud.
• Expertise in indexing, tokenization, stemming, analyzers, filters, and scoring.
• Experience with configuring schemas, managed schemas, dynamic fields, and custom analyzers.
• Knowledge of relevancy tuning, boosting, faceting, highlighting, and query parsers.
• 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 Git version control.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable search solutions using Apache Solr.
• Configure and manage Solr collections, cores, schemas, and indexing pipelines.
• Develop and optimize complex search queries, filters, facets, boosting, and relevancy tuning.
• Implement full-text search, autocomplete, spell check, 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.
• Work closely with business analysts and application teams to define search requirements and relevancy models.
• Provide recommendations on search architecture, scalability, and best practices.

Skills

Solr/SolrCloud

Indexing/Tokenization

Query tuning

REST APIs

Java/J2EE

Linux scripting

Git

Job description

Tundra Technical Solutions is seeking an experienced Apache Solr Search Specialist to design, develop, optimize, and support enterprise search solutions in a contract capacity. The role focuses on Solr/SolrCloud architecture, indexing pipelines, and scaling search across enterprise applications.

The ideal candidate will implement full-text search, autocomplete, and ranking; tune relevancy, manage schemas, and integrate Solr with Java-based apps via REST APIs.