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Elastic. Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, combines the precision of search with the intelligence of AI to accelerate the results that matter. Elastic provides complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability to help organizations deliver on the promise of AI. What Is The Role: You will work with a services, engineering, product, and sales team and wear many hats. This is a meaningful role as a Consulting Architect (Search) with the opportunity to create an immediate impact on Elastic and our customers. What You Will Be Doing
As a member of our professional services team you will deliver Elastic solutions and Elastic stack expertise to drive customer business value from our products. You will: Work with clients to facilitate strategy, roadmap, design, and sizing in workshops. Advocate for customers, build relationships, and communicate effectively. Deliver end-to-end Elastic projects and develop proof-of-concepts that highlight the value of the Elastic Stack and its solutions. Assist with Elastic solutions adaptation and acceleration, data modeling, query development and optimization, cluster tuning and scaling with a focus on fast search and analytics at scale. Drive objectives, gather requirements, manage project tasks, status, dependencies, and timelines to ensure engagements are delivered on time and meet objectives. Collaborate with engineering, product management, and support teams to identify feature improvements and defects; provide field feedback to product. Engage with the Elastic Sales team to scope opportunities and assess technical risks; mentor team members and learn from them to accelerate skills. What You Bring Along
Minimum 7 years as a consultant, engineer, or architect with deep expertise in Enterprise Search concepts and technology, including generative AI technologies. Experience deploying Elastic Search solutions or similar domains (Solr, Algolia, AWS OpenSearch, Palantir, Unbxd, e-commerce site search engines) and designing/building custom search experiences for major customers. Experience solving complex technical search problems in relevancy, scaling, performance tuning, high query and indexing throughput, and benchmarking clusters for optimal performance. Experience leading Enterprise Search projects at architectural and program levels. Experience with monitoring tools that integrate into service management. Bachelor’s, Master’s or PhD in Computer Science or related engineering field preferred, or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience. Experience delivering professional services engagements and public speaking to engineers, developers, or technical audiences. Ability to capture, prioritize, plan, and implement solutions aligned to customer business requirements related to our technologies. Understanding and passion for open-source technology, with proficiency in at least one programming language. Strong hands-on experience with large distributed systems and application infrastructure from an architecture and development perspective. Knowledge of information retrieval and/or analytics domains. Understanding/certification in Kubernetes, Linux, Java, databases, Docker, AWS, Azure, GCP, Kafka, Redis, VMs, Lucene. Occasional travel may be required. Bonus Points
Certifications and specialization in Data Science, Data Analytics, Data Engineering, Machine Learning, NLP, Data Infrastructure, analytics. Deep understanding of Elasticsearch and Lucene, including Elastic Certified Engineer certification. Experience working with pre-sales to scope customer needs; familiarity with Ansible, JavaScript, Terraform; ECK/Kubernetes experience. Knowledge of machine learning and AI; experience delivering or developing product training; contributing to open-source projects or documentation. Additional Information - We Take Care Of Our People As a distributed company, Elastic values diversity and strives to balance great work with great life. We offer regionally parity benefits where possible and support a wide range of locations and schedules, including generous vacation and parental leave. Competitive pay based on work performed. Health coverage for you and your family in many locations. Flexible locations and schedules for many roles. Generous vacation days. Company matching for charitable donations up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent). Up to 40 hours per year for volunteer projects. Minimum of 16 weeks parental leave. Elastic is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage applicants regardless of race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, veteran status, disability, or any other protected status. If you require accommodation during the application process, please email candidate_accessibility@elastic.co. We respond within 24 business hours. Privacy Statement is available here. Seniority level
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