Oracle Endeca Search Platform Engineer

Company Overview

McFadyen Digital is the leading advisor and implementer of eCommerce Marketplace solutions. During 15 years of implementing marketplaces weve built dozens of platforms that cumulatively generate billions of dollars of gross merchandise value (GMV). Were honored to have supported 10% of the Fortune 500 with their digital marketplace initiatives. Over 250 global brands like ABB AB InBev ACCO Albertsons American Red Cross American Eagle Outfitters US Army US Agriculture Dept (and many more) have entrusted their digital transformations to McFadyen. We operate global offices across the US Brazil and India. McFadyen Digital has been a trusted employer for over 35 years and believes that people are the most important part of our company. Were proud of our Great Place to Work certification.

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Opportunity

We are seeking an Oracle Endeca Search Platform Engineer to manage and evolve a multi-site on-premise Endeca environment that powers product discovery across our digital storefronts. You will be the go-to expert for MDEX engines DGraphs Forge pipelines and search configurations ensuring search relevance platform reliability and exceptional customer experience. Working cross-functionally with business merchandising infrastructure and application teams you will drive continuous search improvements while supporting a critical 24x7 production platform.

Responsibilities

Top 5 Responsibilities:

1. Manage and support a multi-site Oracle Endeca on-premise environment with dedicated Endeca applications and MDEX engines for each website.
2. Administer monitor and optimize Endeca MDEX engines DGraphs Forge pipelines and search/navigation configurations.
3. Analyze and resolve search relevance navigation faceting and product discovery issues across multiple websites.
4. Monitor and tune Endeca query performance index performance and system resource utilization to ensure optimal customer experience.
5. Investigate and resolve production incidents related to search availability indexing failures performance degradation and application integration issues.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Design maintain and troubleshoot Endeca Forge-based data ingestion pipelines and custom ETL processes sourcing data from flat files.

• Support and enhance Endeca Assembler API integrations consumed by Classic ASP storefront applications.

• Manage deployment version control and release processes using GitLab repositories for custom cartridges scripts and configurations.

• Work with Squid proxy infrastructure to troubleshoot caching routing latency and availability issues between application and Endeca layers.

• Support daily batch operations and scheduling through Tivoli Workload Scheduler (TWS) / OPC including job monitoring failure recovery and dependency management.

• Perform Endeca index builds deployments rollbacks and production validations in a controlled release environment.

• Develop and maintain operational runbooks support documentation deployment procedures and disaster recovery plans.

• Collaborate with business merchandising infrastructure and application teams to implement search enhancements and platform improvements.

• Participate in 24x7 production support and on-call rotations for critical search platform incidents.

Qualifications

Top 5 Qualifications:

1. Proven experience designing and troubleshooting Forge-based data ingestion pipelines and custom ETL processes from flat file sources.
2. Hands-on experience administering Oracle Endeca including MDEX engine management DGraph configuration and search/navigation tuning.
3. Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve search relevance faceting and product discovery issues in a multi-site eCommerce environment.
4. Experience managing GitLab-based deployments including custom cartridges scripts configurations rollbacks and production validations.
5. Strong production support background with experience handling search platform incidents indexing failures and performance degradation under on-call conditions.

Additional Qualifications:

• Familiarity with Endeca Assembler API and integration patterns with Classic ASP or legacy storefront applications.

• Experience with Squid proxy configuration and troubleshooting connectivity between application and search layers.

• Knowledge of Tivoli Workload Scheduler (TWS) / OPC or equivalent batch scheduling tools for job monitoring and failure recovery.

• Ability to create and maintain operational runbooks deployment procedures and disaster recovery documentation.

• Experience tuning Endeca query and index performance for optimal system resource utilization.

• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills comfortable working with business merchandising infrastructure and application teams.

• Fluent English written and verbal.

Additional Information

Our Core Values: Caring Adaptable Proactive Empowering Clients

Keywords: Oracle Endeca MDEX DGraph Forge Assembler API search relevance faceting navigation indexing eCommerce search ETL data ingestion Squid proxy Tivoli Workload Scheduler OPC GitLab on-premise product discovery search tuning production support on-call remote job

Technology & Tools: Oracle Endeca Forge pipelines Assembler API MDEX DGraph Squid proxy Tivoli Workload Scheduler (TWS) GitLab OMS (Order Management Systems) ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) CMS (Content Management Systems)

Equal Opportunity Employer

McFadyens goal is to ensure that our clients are able to maximize the return on their technology investment by providing better service to their clients partners and internal teams. At McFadyen we truly believe our employees are our most valuable asset. Across our locations in the US Brazil and India we offer a world class work culture that enables top notch delivery for some of the worlds most influential companies.

McFadyen Digital is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color age religion sex sexual orientation gender identity / expression national origin disability protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected under federal state or local law where applicable.