Consultant/Strategist

Profs4U is looking for a Consultant/Strategist for a client in the Netherlands,

Contract period of 4 months +
Work location: the Hague
Starting 02/09/2013. 40 hours per week,
Hour rate between 55-60 euro, ex vat.
Closing date 10/07/2013 - 12:00

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The goal of the ITR Stream II program is to improve the efficiency of the search performed by the examiners while maintaining or improving its quality for both the examiners and the external users. To tackle those challenges, Stream II aims at achieving a higher degree of user assistance and automation of prior art search. This goal supposes to take advantage of modern search technologies and to adapt the existing search process and functionalities.

The following services are required:
Contributing to the realisation of the search Back End infrastructure and services introduced by the ITR project TAPAS (based on ElasticSearch/Lucene)
Participation to the realisation of a benchmarking environment for prior art search systems
Technical advices and support on the foundation of a large-scale cloud-oriented search service infrastructure
Supporting prototyping activities around the usage of text mining for Information retrieval and prior art search applications
Deployment of components and applications in the EPO environments in line with Architectural Guidelines regarding introduction of new services ...

Liaise with the project team and the different projects in the IRT Roadmap program for testing and acceptance of the deployments Supporting the operation and system during development and test phase Support the project and technical managers for technical decisionsOpleidingsprofiel

The successful candidate has the following skills:

4.1. soft skills
Ability to transfer advanced knowledge on new search technologies
Pragmatic and result-oriented
Diplomatic, positive and open-minded
Willingness to integrate in heterogeneous teams and international environment
Ability to come up with ideas and proposals for enhancements to the products
Proven experience in agile project management methodologies (Scrum, XP).
Good project management skills including -but not limited to-requirement gathering and

analysis, estimating, planning and reporting
Good communication skills in English and ability to write technical documents
Entrepreneurship attitude
Proactive participation in addition to initiative
Good team player, able to integrate quickly in a complex environment

technical skills The selected candidate must have the skills and proven experience in the following techniques and technologies:

A strong theoretical background in Information Retrieval Solid practical experience with state of the art open source search engines (eg Lucene, Solr, ElasticSearch, Lemur, etc.): data preparation, prototyping, indexing, querying, customising, testing, scaling Good comprehension of modern retrieval and ranking algorithms (BM25, statistical language models)
Distributed and scalable search architecture
Text mining Search evaluation methodologies and practices
Java programming (including -but not limited to-JEE, Web development n-tier technologies and testing tools like jUnit)
Object Oriented modelling and design (UML and Design Patterns), JBoss Application Server XML, XSD, XSL, XPATH, XQUERY NOSQL document database solutions, eg MongoDB, CouchDB, MarkLogic, etc.

The preferred candidate will have proven experience in the following domains
Deployment and production-level operation of distributed search technologies
Performance monitoring for distributed search systems
Machine learning (Decision tree, MLP, SVM, etc.)
Statistical Natural Language Processing (HMM, CRF, etc.)
Semantic-based information retrieval methods (eg Latent Semantic Indexing)
Analytical skills, including data analysis skills Test driven development in an Agile environment
Spring framework and suite of tools, including -but nor limited to-Spring MVC RDBMS database technologies
jMeter performance test tool Operating Systems: Linux or zLinux Javascript programming Maven 2 Hudson Continuous Integration server Nexus artefact repository manager

The following optional skills would also be appreciated

Knowledge in patent information
Knowledge of technical and scientific information
Knowledge of technical and scientific knowledge-based framework (eg multilingual terminological databases, ontologies)
Semantic analysis of text (word sense disambiguation, concept extraction, etc.)
BIRT reporting framework BPM and BPMN
Cloud-based computing Database interface technologies: ORM, JAXB, Hibernate JDBC or SQLJ