Lead AI-Driven Search & Personalization Architect

Rapsys Technologies Pte Ltd.; Texas; On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Rapsys Technologies Pte Ltd. seeks a Principal Search & Recommendation Architect to lead strategy, architecture, and modernization of personalized digital shopping experiences across HEB.com and mobile apps.

You will define real-time personalization roadmaps, oversee search relevance, recommendations, and next-gen AI-powered discovery, collaborating with product, engineering, data science, and executives.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in machine learning, search, recommendation systems, or personalization platforms.

Responsibilities

• Own enterprise search and recommendation architecture across digital commerce platforms.
• Lead development of personalized search experiences, product ranking algorithms, and recommendation strategies.
• Design and implement customer behavior models, customer segmentation frameworks, and next-best-action capabilities.
• Drive roadmap for personalized search rankings, recommendation engines, basket recommendations, loyalty personalization, digital coupon optimization, and mobile app personalization.
• Architect real-time ranking systems utilizing customer behavior signals and event streams.
• Build and scale semantic search and vector search solutions.
• Evaluate and integrate LLM-powered shopping experiences and conversational commerce capabilities.
• Partner with business stakeholders to improve conversion rates, basket size, customer engagement, retention, and digital revenue growth.
• Lead cloud modernization—migration of ML workloads from AWS and Databricks toward GCP services.
• Lead semantic search, vector search, and LLM-enabled shopping initiatives; drive AWS to GCP modernization.
• Establish architecture standards for feature stores, MLOps processes, experimentation frameworks, and model governance.
• Mentor engineering and data science teams while influencing strategy across organizations.

Skills

Machine learning

Search relevance

Recommendation systems

Personalization platforms

Product ranking models

Python

Spark

Databricks

Kafka

MLOps

Experimentation frameworks

Executive communication

Tools

AWS

GCP

Job description

Rapsys Technologies Pte Ltd. seeks a Principal Search & Recommendation Architect to lead strategy, architecture, and modernization of personalized digital shopping experiences across HEB.com and mobile apps.

You will define real-time personalization roadmaps, oversee search relevance, recommendations, and next-gen AI-powered discovery, collaborating with product, engineering, data science, and executives.