Consulting Architect - Search
Elastic · Posted Sep 11
Search, observability, security, and analytics platform services
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About the role
Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale, and its Search AI Platform is used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500. The Consulting Architect - Search joins the Global Capability Center and professional services team, serving as a trusted technical architect and consultant focused on the strategic design and hands-on implementation of the Elastic Stack with a focus on Search AI. The role involves translating complex enterprise business challenges into robust, scalable, value-driven Elastic solutions, working across time zones with both remote support and required on-site client engagement.
What you will do
- As a member of our professional services team you will deliver Elastic solutions and Elastic stack expertise to drive customer business value from our products.
- Work with clients to facilitate strategy, roadmap, design, and sizing in workshops.
- You will apply your soft skills to advocate for your customers, build relationships and exhibit strong communications skills.
- Comfortability working remotely or on-site in a highly distributed team.
- Your activities will include end-to-end delivery of ground-breaking Elastic projects to our customers, as well as development of proof-of-concepts that highlight the value of the Elastic Stack and its solutions.
- Other topics will include Elastic solutions adaption and acceleration along with data modeling, query development and optimization, cluster tuning and scaling with a focus on fast search and analytics at scale.
- Daily tasks include driving and handling the objectives, requirements gathering, project tasks, project status, dependencies, and timelines, to ensure engagements are delivered optimally and on time while meeting and exceeding the customer objectives.
- Your goal is to make your customers love Elastic and achieve amazing value from the platform!
- Work across teams with engineering, product management, and support teams to identify feature improvements, extensions, and product defects.
- Facilitate feedback from the field back to the product.
- Engage with the Elastic Sales team to scope opportunities while assessing technical risks, questions, or concerns.
- Be a mentor to your team members, while also learning from them to accelerate your skills
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Elastic Certification: Required – Active Elastic Certified Engineer certification is mandatory.
- Experience: Minimum of 7+ years as a Consulting Architect, Senior Technical Consultant, or equivalent senior IT functional role.
- Consulting History: A strong history of working as a Consultant delivering professional services engagements in complex enterprise environments.
- Domain Expertise: Proven experience in deploying solutions using Elastic core domain: Enterprise Search.
- Experience in solving complex technical search problems in terms of relevancy, scaling, performance fine-tuning, building a platform to handle high query throughputs and indexing throughput, benchmarking clusters to achieve optimal performance.
- Experience in leading and delivering Enterprise Search projects at both the architectural and program level.
- Experience in GenAI, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and vector embeddings.
- Deep understanding of distributed architecture including application, database and systems.
- Cloud & Infrastructure: Hands-on experience with on-prem systems and/or major public/private cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Technical Depth: Hands-on experience in Linux, networking, security, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and infrastructure automation.
- Programming/Scripting: Experience utilizing programming or scripting languages in a corporate environment (e.g., Python, Javascript, Go).
- Communication: Exceptional customer advocacy, relationship-building, and soft skills including whiteboarding and driving architectural conversations. Proven ability to lead and articulate technical solutions to stakeholders.
- Travel: Ability and willingness to travel to client sites periodically as required for project success (up to 20%)
- Work Style: Comfortable working effectively in a highly distributed and remote team, spanning multiple global time zones.
- BS or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
Preferred qualifications
- 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 and support
- Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary
- Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
- We strive to have parity of benefits across regions and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.
- Elastic is the type of company where you can balance great work with great life.
About Elastic
Elastic is a search AI company that builds self-managed and SaaS offerings for search, logging, security, observability, and analytics. Powered by the Elasticsearch platform, the company helps thousands of organizations worldwide transform massive volumes of data into actionable insights and real-time answers. Its modern search solutions are widely integrated across enterprise tech ecosystems to support advanced AI applications and automated security workloads.
- Industry
- Software
- Company size
- 5001-10000 employees
- Founded
- 2012
- Location
- Mountain View, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $162M raised
- 2012-11-01Series A$10M
- 2013-03-01Series B$24M
- 2014-06-05Series C$70M
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer
Founder and Chief Technology Officer
Chief Financial Officer
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