Senior Search Technology Expert

Deliveries

- Support for the design, specifications, test and deployment of a benchmarking and evaluation application for prior art search systems
- Support for the design, specifications, development, test, evaluation and tuning of the search Back End infrastructure and services of the project
- Support for the prototyping, test, evaluation and tuning of text mining modules applied to patent documents
- Provide architectural advices regarding the technical infrastructure of large scale search prototypes
- A pro-active support in proposing alternative technical solutions and design improvements is expected.
- Regular reporting of progress
- Technical documentation

REQUIREMENTS

THE SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE HAS THE FOLLOWING SKILLS:

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.