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Job Description:<\/b><\/span>Lead II – Software Engineering<\/span>Who we are:<\/b><\/span>At UST, we help the world\u2019s best organizations grow and succeed through transformation. Bringing together the right talent, tools, and ideas, we work with our client to co-create lasting change. Together, with over 26,000 employees in 25 countries, we build for boundless impact\u2014touching billions of lives in the process. Visit us at .<\/span>You Are:<\/b><\/span>Sr. Development Manager Search (Solr)<\/span>The Opportunity:<\/b><\/span>\u00b7 Own the delivery and evolution of Waters’ enterprise Search platform, enabling intelligent and personalized search experiences across Waters.com and digital channels.<\/span>\u00b7 Lead the Search engineering squad, ensuring on-time and high-quality delivery of features and platform capabilities.<\/span>\u00b7 Define and drive a robust roadmap that aligns with customer needs, digital strategy, and data relevance.<\/span>\u00b7 Collaborate across engineering, product, and business teams to define technical direction and remove blockers related to data ingestion, indexing, ranking, and query performance.<\/span>\u00b7 Ensure continuous integration, delivery, monitoring, and observability practices are in place for high availability and reliability of the search infrastructure.<\/span>\u00b7 Stay current with evolving Search, AI\/ML, and NLP technologies to guide platform modernization and relevancy innovation. Drive best engineering practices including domain-driven design, microservices, cloud-native architecture, and DevOps culture.<\/span>\u00b7 Leadership Technologies: Search Technologies (Apache Solr), Java\/J2EE, Microservices, REST APIs, Cloud platforms (AWS\/Azure), React (preferred), DevOps tools (CI\/CD), Git, Atlassian suite, Monitoring\/Observability tools<\/span>What you need:<\/b><\/span>\u00b7 10+ years in software engineering with 5+ years in technical leadership or management roles, ideally within enterprise Search Deep expertise in Search technologies such as Apache Solr and other modern search stacks.<\/span>\u00b7 Strong backend engineering background, including Java, J2EE, Spring Boot, REST APIs, and scalable microservices<\/span>\u00b7 Solid understanding of Search fundamentals: relevance tuning, NLP, faceting, ranking, synonyms, stemming, and query parsers.<\/span>\u00b7 Experience with data pipelines and real-time indexing Knowledge of web project lifecycle including front-end\/back-end development.<\/span>\u00b7 Familiarity with front-end frameworks (e.g., React) and their integration with Search APIs.<\/span>\u00b7 Experience building platforms in Cloud environments (AWS preferred), with strong focus on security and performance.<\/span>Bonus points if:<\/b><\/span>\u00b7 Background in observability, logging, and monitoring for high-performance systems. Experience leading teams in agile\/scrum environments with proven track record of managing cross-functional delivery. Strong communication, influencing, and stakeholder management skills.<\/span>\u00b7 Passion for building great user experiences through search and discovery innovations.<\/span>What we believe:<\/span>We\u2019re proud to embrace the same values that have shaped UST since the beginning. Since day one, we\u2019ve been building enduring relationships and a culture of integrity. And today, it’s those same values that are inspiring us to encourage innovation from everyone, to champion diversity and inclusion and to place people at the center of everything we do.<\/span>Humility:<\/span>We will listen, learn, be empathetic and help selflessly in our interactions with everyone.<\/span>Humanity:<\/span>Through business, we will better the lives of those less fortunate than ourselves.<\/span>Integrity:<\/span>We honor our commitments and act with responsibility in all our relationships.<\/span>Equal Employment Opportunity Statement<\/b><\/span>UST is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that no one should be discriminated against because of their differences, such as age, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity and expression, religion or sexual orientation.<\/span>All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law.<\/span>UST reserves the right to periodically redefine your roles and responsibilities based on the requirements of the organization and\/or your performance.<\/p>\n