Consulting Architect - Search

The role

You will serve as a technical architect and consultant to design and implement Elastic Stack solutions with a focus on Search AI. You will work with enterprise customers to translate business challenges into scalable solutions through workshops, proof-of-concepts, and end-to-end delivery.

What you will do

• Deliver Elastic solutions and expertise to drive customer business value
• Facilitate strategy, roadmap, design, and sizing in workshops
• Perform end-to-end delivery of Elastic projects
• Develop proof-of-concepts highlighting Elastic Stack value
• Handle data modeling, query development, optimization, and cluster tuning
• Manage project objectives, requirements, tasks, status, dependencies, and timelines
• Identify feature improvements and product defects by working with engineering and product teams
• Engage with Sales teams to scope opportunities and assess technical risks
• Mentor team members

Required qualifications

• Active Elastic Certified Engineer certification
• Minimum of 7+ years as a Consulting Architect, Senior Technical Consultant, or equivalent senior IT functional role
• History of delivering professional services engagements in complex enterprise environments
• Proven experience in deploying solutions using Elastic core domain: Enterprise Search
• Experience solving complex technical search problems regarding relevancy, scaling, performance fine-tuning, and benchmarking clusters
• Experience leading and delivering Enterprise Search projects at architectural and program levels
• Experience in GenAI, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and vector embeddings
• Deep understanding of distributed architecture including application, database and systems
• Hands-on experience with on-prem systems and/or major public/private cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Hands-on experience in Linux, networking, security, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and infrastructure automation
• Experience utilizing programming or scripting languages (e.g., Python, Javascript, Go)
• BS or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field

Nice to have

• Familiarity/Experience in implementing similar products in Search Domain (Solr, Algolia, Open Search)
• Any cloud service provider's Gen AI certification
• Additional Elastic Certifications (e.g., Elastic Certified Analyst, Specializations) and/or specialization in machine learning, data analytics
• Experience working closely with a pre-sales organization in scoping customer needs and delivering against a Statement of Work (SOW)
• Experience as a technical instructor or public speaker on enterprise infrastructure software
• Experience contributing to an open-source project or documentation

Benefits

• Competitive pay
• Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
• Flexible locations and schedules for many roles
• Generous number of vacation days each year
• Match up to $2000 for financial donations and service
• Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects
• Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave

About the company

Elastic is the Search AI Company that enables everyone to find answers in real time using all their data at scale. The Elastic Search AI Platform is used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500.