Search Architect

Company: Cognizant
Location: Jersey City
Posted on: June 24, 2022

Job Description:

Cognizant is a strategic partner to the Fortune 2,000, helping the world's most influential companies to build software and solutions, empowering our clients' businesses, and enabling their competitive advantages.

Cognizant DX helps clients reinvent products, experiences, and business models to create new value, differentiation, and drive revenue in the digital economy.

Job Summary

Cognizant is looking for a driven thought leader with experience in tailoring a customized product and solution for our clients. This individual will act as a trusted advisor and be responsible for providing an approach for the overall project. The role is expected to drive technology discussions and analyze the current landscape for gaps in addressing business needs.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

We are looking for a passionate Search Architect. The role is a combination of technical architect, and hands on delivery lead. You will be asked to develop a solid understanding of the business domain, product understanding and deep technical knowledge to deliver the solution.

You should have a proven track record of delivering to strategic business vision, enterprise level architecture strategies, and developing innovative enterprise IT enablement practices that create business value.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

The role is a combination of technical architecture, and hands on delivery. You will be asked to develop a solid understanding of the business domain, product understanding and deep technical knowledge to deliver the solution.
You will spend 40% of your time on code, 40% on architecture, and 20% mentoring engineers and other team members.
You will be leading the architecture as well as hands on development of the core platform.
You will be setting guideline on how to design, implement and operate at both the platform and architecture level, and more importantly contributing meaningfully at code level for continuous improvements and delivery.
Making high-level decisions about each stage of the development process and leading a team of engineers to create the final product.
Leading the architecture as well as hands on development of the core platform
Setting guideline on how to design, implement and operate at both the platform and architecture level but more importantly contributing meaningfully at code level for continuous improvements and delivery.

Develop a solid understanding of the business domain, product understanding
Design and development of Microservice for search application
Leading the team of engineers to create a final product
Finding AI/ML use cases and develop use case realization designs
Designing, developing and deployment of ML training models using ML libraries.



Digital Architecting: Develop Applications Target Architecture Blueprint, Transition Roadmap, High/Low Level Architecture design, Product Evaluations, Current Architecture evaluations, Solution Approach, Industry/Peer comparisons for several key Digital Engagements across channels.

REQUIRED SKILLS

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or Master's Degree in Computer Science/Engineering.

At least 2+ years' experience of contributing to the architect and design and prior 5+ experience as full stack lead engineer.
Cloud infrastructure and services knowledge is a must
SaaS or PaaS experience is desirable.
Previous working experience in retail domain with search engine (Azure Cognitive search, elastic) knowledge is highly desired
Experience with Spring/C# or Node/React technologies is a must.
Understanding of security concepts is a must.
Experience on an Agile team is a must.
Experience with micro-services and/or Domain Driven Design (DDD) is a must.
Exposure to CI/CD and DevOps is a must.
Knowledge of noSQL or Cassandra DB's is desirable.
Experience with architecture diagrams or high level microservices design diagrams depicting how a typical software system might interact with its users, external systems, data sources, and services.
Making high-level decisions about each stage of the development process and leading a team of engineers to create the final product.

AI/ML:

The associate should be help us to extract analytical patterns from data.
Experience in developing, deploying, and maintaining ML algorithms to analyze large volumes of historical data to make predictions.
The person should have knowledge of ML frameworks, libraries, data structures, data models and software architecture.
Come up with AI/ML use cases and develop use case realization designs
Familiar with Elastic AI/ML out of the box capabilities as the data is stored in Elastic
Migration steps from Azure Cognitive Search to Elastic Search.
Strong and Technically sound in Elastic search, able to mentor and Hands on with Index Ingestion, Search APIs & Query pipelines.
Additional Skills - Proficiency in Python with a deep learning framework such as Scikit-learn, TensorFlow or Keras

Why Choose Cognizant?

It takes a lot to succeed in today's fast-paced market, and Cognizant Technology Solutions has become a leader in the industry. We love big ideas and even bigger dreams. We stand out because we put human experiences at the core.

Our associates enjoy robust benefits and training opportunities from our industry recognized, award winning Academy team. You will have access to hundreds of technical training to keep your skillsets fresh and have opportunities to obtain certifications on the latest technologies.

Everything we do at Cognizant we do with passion-for our clients, our communities, and our organization. It's the defining attribute that we look for in our people.

If you're comfortable with ambiguity, excited by change, and excel through autonomy, we'd love to hear from you!

Cognizant is recognized as a Military Friendly Employer and is a coalition member of the Veteran Jobs Mission. Our Cognizant Veterans Network Assists Veterans in building and growing a career at Cognizant that allows them to leverage the leadership, loyalty, integrity, and commitment to excellence instilled in them through participation in military service.

Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer provider and committed to creating a diverse environment. Cognizant considers all applicants without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, age, marital and family status, disabilities, sexual orientation or preference, veteran status or any other classification protected by state, federal or local law.

About Cognizant

Headquartered in the U.S, Cognizant is a member of the S&P-500, Nasdaq-100, Fortune 200, and was recently ranked as the #1 Fastest Growing "All Star" by Fortune Magazine. Cognizant leverages a highly flexible business model, a seamless global delivery network, and deep domain expertise to deliver to a long list of world-class companies that are leaders in their own space.

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Technical Skills

SNo Primary Skill Proficiency Level * Rqrd./Dsrd. 1 Cognitive Computing PL1 Required * Proficiency Legends

Proficiency Level Generic Reference PL1 The associate has basic awareness and comprehension of the skill and is in the process of acquiring this skill through various channels. PL2 The associate possesses working knowledge of the skill, and can actively and independently apply this skill in engagements and projects. PL3 The associate has comprehensive, in-depth and specialized knowledge of the skill. She / he has extensively demonstrated successful application of the skill in engagements or projects. PL4 The associate can function as a subject matter expert for this skill. The associate is capable of analyzing, evaluating and synthesizing solutions using the skill.

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