Search Technology Specialist Job (New York, NY, USA): Job Requisition Number:41666 The Role: Bloomberg is looking for a Search Technology Specialist to join its Foundational Services - Search Solutions team. This is a new team that is focused on providing a standardized Bloomberg Search Engine platform built over Apache Solr that can be leveraged by a variety of Bloomberg applications. The vision is to build and support a core search engine that can be targeted and customized towards different application verticals for domain-specific and cross-domain searches. Search Solutions is a core search infrastructure team that works to enhance and extend search technologies used across the company. We work to optimize and improve performance of the core search engine, develop and add new functionalities as needed by our applications and strive to contribute back to the open source Apache Solr project. Some of the areas of interest include OLAP analytics engine, federated search, alerting and spatial search. The team is also responsible for the development and management of the infrastructure, services, interfaces and operational toolkits that makes it easy for application teams to deploy data sets, query across them and develop search related products. We are looking for individuals with a deep background in search technologies with strong experience in Solr & Lucene (or other search engines). The ideal candidates will have a solid track record developing large scale distributed indexing and search systems. Candidates must have hands on programming and development experience and be able to take ownership of the business requirements and develop solutions that meet our application needs. This is a wonderful opportunity to join a talented group of engineers working with the best of search technologies and take part in the architecture, design and build of a search service platform. Qualifications: - Expert in Solr & Lucene (or other search engine technology) - Very strong hands on programming knowledge in Java (a minimum of 5 years of experience) - Experience with building large-scale distributed indexing & search systems. - Excellent problem solving and multi-tasking skills, with a creative and flexible attitude - Knowledge of C++/Python/JavaScript/Spring is a plus - Contributions to the open source Apache SOLR project is a plus - Experience with related Apache projects such as Zookeeper, Camel etc. is a plus The Company: Bloomberg, the global business and financial information and news leader, gives influential decision makers a critical edge by connecting them to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas. The companys strength - delivering data, news and analytics through innovative technology, quickly and accurately - is at the core of the Bloomberg Professional service, which provides real time financial information to more than 315,000 subscribers globally. Bloombergs enterprise solutions build on the companys core strength, leveraging technology to allow customers to access, integrate, distribute and manage data and information across organizations more efficiently and effectively. Through Bloomberg Law, Bloomberg Government, Bloomberg New Energy Finance and Bloomberg BNA, the company provides data, news and analytics to decision makers in industries beyond finance. And Bloomberg News, delivered through the Bloomberg Professional service, television, radio, mobile, the Internet and three magazines, Bloomberg Businessweek, Bloomberg Markets and Bloomberg Pursuits, covers the world with more than 2,400 news and multimedia professionals at more than 150 bureaus in 73 countries. Headquartered in New York, Bloomberg employs more than 15,000 people in 192 locations around the world.TAWZIF
Posted on: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 12:48:29 +0000
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