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DirectWest, a wholly owned subsidiary of SaskTel, is looking for a Search Engineer for its Mysask411 platform.
The Search Engineer will be responsible for:
1. Modelling user personas, identifying users typical needs and designing & configuring search functionality that will meet those needs
2. Discovering, selecting and generating features that provide appropriate information when a user searches
3. Integrating new sources of information to support user and business relevance requirements
4. Transforming and cleaning data sources through transformation and analysis to support matching rules
5. Continually monitoring search results and user interactions to identify new problems and unexpected use cases
6. Interpreting user behavioral data to evaluate search relevance
7. Recommending UI/UX enhancements to support search features such as refinements and recommendations
8. Documenting configurations and managing versions per best practices
9. Maintaining the stability and high availability of the search platform along with monitoring and responding to alerts
10. Troubleshooting & explaining problems identified by end users
11. Proactively identifying solutions
Ideally, the successful candidate will have a degree in computer science or software engineering and several years experience with Solr, Lucene or Elastic search technology., as well as strong collaboration skills. DirectWest would also consider developing the right candidate who already possesses strong software development/engineering and collaboration abilities into our Search Engineer.
This position offers an impressive compensation package, bonus opportunity, matched pension contributions & medical/dental/vision benefits.
If this exciting and challenging opportunity is a fit for you, then wed love to hear from you! It is important that you refer to directwest.com/careers for more application info.