Lucidworks Fusion Architect

Job Summary

Cognizant is seeking an Architect to design, optimize, and govern large-scale search and data experience solutions using Lucidworks Fusion, Coveo, and related components for industrial manufacturing and automotive clients. The role involves building robust pipelines, intuitive applications, and high-relevance search experiences, while mentoring teams on best practices and ensuring secure, scalable, and maintainable hybrid deployments supporting global business operations.

About the Role

The role focuses on designing and implementing search platforms, providing technical leadership, managing releases, overseeing production support, driving relevance tuning, coordinating with vendors, and promoting AI-powered search modernization.

Responsibilities

• Act as the primary onsite contact for all Lucidworks Fusion Search-related initiatives.
• Gather and analyze business requirements from product owners and business stakeholders.
• Translate business needs into technical solutions and implementation roadmaps.
• Conduct requirement clarification sessions, design discussions, and solution walkthroughs.
• Present search platform capabilities, enhancements, and release updates to stakeholders.
• Drive prioritization of search enhancements and defect remediation activities.
• Define end-to-end enterprise search architecture leveraging Lucidworks Fusion, Solr, AWS, and associated technologies.
• Provide technical direction to offshore development and support teams.
• Review solution designs, indexing strategies, search relevance tuning, and data integration approaches.
• Establish best practices for Fusion configurations, pipelines, query profiles, collections, and data sources.
• Lead root cause analysis for critical platform issues and performance bottlenecks.
• Own monthly and quarterly release planning activities.
• Review release scope, deployment plans, and implementation schedules.
• Coordinate with Lucidworks support teams during major production deployments.
• Govern release readiness reviews, risk assessments, and rollback planning.
• Ensure successful deployment across Authoring, Production, and Backup environments.
• Oversee production health monitoring and operational excellence.
• Monitor ingestion pipelines, indexing jobs, query performance, and system stability.
• Manage incident response, severity handling, and stakeholder communications.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to minimize production issues.
• Lead search relevance tuning and optimization initiatives.
• Analyze user search behavior and recommend platform improvements.
• Drive search analytics and KPI-based optimization across business applications.
• Govern QA environment setup and refresh activities.
• Validate release readiness through functional, integration, and end-to-end testing.
• Ensure Fusion configurations are properly migrated across environments.
• Coordinate testing cycles with business users and QA teams.
• Provide day-to-day guidance to offshore developers, DevOps engineers, and support teams.
• Review work estimates, sprint plans, and delivery commitments.
• Ensure adherence to coding standards, release processes, and support procedures.
• Facilitate daily standups, defect triages, and technical review sessions.
• Oversee AWS-hosted search-related services and integrations.
• Coordinate support for microservices running on AWS Fargate, EC2, and DocumentDB environments.
• Ensure application scalability, reliability, and performance compliance.
• Drive CI/CD, infrastructure automation, and cloud optimization initiatives.
• Coordinate with Lucidworks technical support teams for product issues and enhancements.
• Track support tickets and escalation management.
• Participate in platform upgrade planning and roadmap discussions.
• Ensure adherence to vendor-recommended best practices.
• Drive adoption of AI-powered search capabilities and intelligent search enhancements.
• Evaluate opportunities for vector search, semantic search, GenAI integrations, and agentic search experiences.
• Support enterprise AI initiatives across the search portfolio.
• Identify opportunities for automation, operational efficiency, and improved user experience.

Qualifications

• 10 - 13 Years of experience in search architecture and implementation.
• Proven track record in delivering complex search solutions for large-scale enterprises.
• Strong understanding of Lucidworks Fusion, Coveo, and related technologies.
• Experience with AWS, Solr, and microservices.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to lead offshore teams and coordinate with vendors.
• Proficiency in SQL and data modeling.
• Experience with AI and machine learning in search applications.

Skills

• Search architecture and implementation.
• Lucidworks Fusion, Coveo, and related technologies.
• AWS, Solr, and microservices.
• SQL and data modeling.
• AI and machine learning in search applications.

Benefits

• Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance.
• Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off.
• 401(k) plan and contributions.
• Long-term/Short-term Disability.
• Paid Parental Leave.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

Pay

The annual salary for this position is between $130,000/Year to $163,000/Year depending on the experience and other qualifications of the candidate. This position is also eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program and stock awards, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant’s applicable plans.

Schedule

This is a hybrid role and fully remote candidates will not be considered.