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This full-time, on-site Consulting Architect role is part of Elastic's Global Capability Center, which supports customers around the world. The listing gives the location as India.…
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This full-time, on-site Consulting Architect role is part of Elastic's Global Capability Center, which supports customers around the world. The listing gives the location as India. The posting describes a senior position centered on planning and building Elastic Stack solutions, with Search AI as the emphasis, in complex enterprise settings. The architect would facilitate workshops on strategy, roadmap, design, and sizing, lead end-to-end delivery of Elastic projects, and build proofs…
Job Description
This full-time, on-site Consulting Architect role is part of Elastic's Global Capability Center, which supports customers around the world. The listing gives the location as India. The posting describes a senior position centered on planning and building Elastic Stack solutions, with Search AI as the emphasis, in complex enterprise settings.
The architect would facilitate workshops on strategy, roadmap, design, and sizing, lead end-to-end delivery of Elastic projects, and build proofs of concept that show the value of the platform. The work includes shaping data models, writing and improving queries, and tuning and scaling clusters for quick search and analysis. The person would also track objectives, requirements, status, and timelines, pass field feedback to product teams, and support the sales team in scoping opportunities.
The posting asks for a senior consultant with at least seven years in consulting architecture or an equivalent role, deep experience with enterprise search relevancy and performance, and work on GenAI, retrieval-augmented generation, and vector embeddings. The role requires holding a current Elastic Certified Engineer credential. The role blends remote work with client visits on site, includes travel of up to 20%, and involves collaboration across time zones.
Responsibilities
- Facilitate workshops on strategy, roadmap, design, and sizing with clients
- Lead end-to-end delivery of Elastic projects, including proofs of concept
- Model data, develop and optimize queries, and tune and scale clusters for fast search and analytics
- Manage requirements, project tasks, status, dependencies, and timelines
- Coordinate with engineering, product, and support groups on enhancements and defects
- Pass feedback from the field to the product teams
- Scope opportunities with the Elastic sales team and assess technical risks
- Mentor team members while learning from them
Requirements
- Active Elastic Certified Engineer certification
- Seven-plus years in consulting architecture, senior technical consulting, or comparable IT leadership
- Record of delivering professional services in complex enterprise environments
- Experience deploying Enterprise Search solutions, including relevancy, scaling, performance tuning, and cluster benchmarking
- Experience leading Enterprise Search projects at both architecture and program level
- Experience with GenAI, retrieval-augmented generation, and vector embeddings
- Strong sense of distributed design spanning applications, databases, and systems
- Hands-on experience with on-premises systems and/or AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Working knowledge of Linux, networking, security, containers such as Docker and Kubernetes, and infrastructure automation
- Scripting skill in languages such as Python, JavaScript, or Go
- Strong customer advocacy and communication, including whiteboarding and leading architecture discussions
- Ability to travel to client sites, up to 20% of the time, and to work in a distributed team across time zones
- A bachelor's or master's in computer science or a closely related technical area
Qualifications
- Experience with similar search products such as Solr, Algolia, or OpenSearch
- Cloud provider generative AI certification
- Additional Elastic certifications or a specialization in machine learning or data analytics
- Experience working with pre-sales teams to scope needs and deliver against a statement of work
- Teaching or conference speaking experience on enterprise infrastructure tools
- Track record of contributing to open-source projects or their documentation
Core Skills
Benefits
- Pay set by the role itself rather than by past earnings
- Health coverage for employees and families in many locations
- Flexible scheduling options for many roles
- Generous annual vacation allowance
- Match of up to $2,000 for financial donations and service, plus up to 40 volunteer hours per year
- Parental leave of at least 16 weeks
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Where is this role located?
The listing gives the location as India and marks the role as on-site. The posting does not name a specific city.
Is this role remote?
The posting blends remote work with required client visits on site, with travel of up to 20%.
What is the pay for this role?
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What experience does the employer look for?
The posting asks for an active Elastic Certified Engineer certification and at least seven years in senior consulting or equivalent IT roles.
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