Search Architect

Search Architect

Search Architect

Are you looking for a fast moving, creative environment where you can use your expertise to develop and market cutting-edge interactive and digital products?

AT&T Interactive, a subsidiary of AT&T Inc, is an industry leader in creating local search products that encourage consumers to discover and engage with local businesses across three screens - online, mobile, and TV. attracts over 36 million monthly online unique visitors . is also accessed by millions of users each month via the mobile web. AT&T Interactive consumer apps have a pre-activation presence or have been downloaded through digital app stores on over 40 million mobile phones.

Helping advertisers grow their business, AT&T Interactive's local ad network, one of the industry's most robust, distributes ads to a distinguished list of top publishers whose presence spans online, mobile and TV platforms. AT&T Interactive's wide range of local ad products such as premium listings, performance-based advertising, and search engine marketing provides advertisers an opportunity to reach consumers who are looking for a local business.

AT&T Interactive products are supported by more than 5,000 media consultants from AT&T Advertising Solutions.

Join our dedicated and talented team of individuals all focused on creating the best products in the marketplace. We currently have an opportunity for an experienced Search Architect in our Glendale, CA offices.

RESPONSIBILITIES:
AT&T Interactive is looking for a talented Search Architect to design next-generation local search applications. This is a hands-on architecture position. The Search Architect has a responsibility for ensuring the completeness (fitness-for-purpose) of the architecture, in terms of adequately addressing all the pertinent concerns of its stakeholders; and the integrity of the architecture, in terms of connecting all the various views to each other, satisfactorily reconciling the conflicting concerns of different stakeholders, and showing the trade- offs made in so doing (as between security and performance).Activities will span all phases of product development including requirements, architecture, design, release, and maintenance.
REQUIREMENTS:

• Define, analyze, and review software architecture and requirements for next generation search products.
• Participate in definition, design, and review of software architecture, design, application frameworks, and interfaces.
• Take ownership of technical solutions from the design and architecture through development and unit testing.
• Document technical designs, using flow charts, data flow diagrams, database schemas, descriptive software component documentation, wireframes, etc. as required.
• Lead development and implementation of framework and application software.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to internal technology teams.
• Help guide the technology direction.
• Developing high quality software with predictable and repeatable processes.
• Successful execution of projects within schedule goals.
• Reuse of designs globally both as a contributor and as a beneficiary.
• Critical to successful implementation of global products based on common platform
• Critical to successful deployment of high quality and cost effective products
• Key contributor to system architecture for current and future platforms and Products
• Increase portfolio of Company¹s intellectual property and patents.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field required. MS/Phd a plus.
• Experience in the fields related to text mining/information retrieval/search engines.
• Experience of working with open-source technologies like SOLR, Lucene, Hadoop, Hive, Pig. Experience of contributing to aforementioned open-source projects a plus.
• Experience of working with huge amount of data.
• Experience of working on infrastructure of large scale systems.
• Experience with software development methodologies (e.g., OOA/D, UML, Requirements Management, Configuration Management, and Defect Management) and tools (VCS, bug-tracking software, etc.)
• Experience contributing to or developing a software framework strongly preferred.

We offer competitive salaries, excellent benefits including a matching 401(k), bonuses, and a casual yet high-energy work environment. Send us your resume today.

AT&T Interactive is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer, and we are committed to hiring a diverse and talented workforce. EOE/AA/M/F/D/V

Notice to Recruiting Agencies: search firms, headhunters or consulting firms. All unsolicited resumes sent to an AT&T Interactive email address, to an employee of AT&T Interactive, or to our resume database will be considered property of AT&T Interactive, and we will not be obligated to pay any referral fee associated with such resume. Permission to send resumes may only be granted in writing by AT&T Interactive. We are not accepting additional recruiting service providers at this time. Thank you for your interest in working with AT&T Interactive.

Source: AT&T Interactive internal data, 2010 YTD average through July

source: AT&T Mobility and AT&T Interactive internal data



Company Description:

The largest communications company in the United States. And the world. We are the industry leaders in providing wireless service, high speed internet access, local and long distance voice, and directory publishing and advertising services across the US. We are also developing our business to include next-generation television services with our new AT&T U-VerseSM TV. 

Join our incredibly diverse company of more than 250,000 people and help drive the innovation that keeps AT&T at the leading edge of technology and service. Expect big things from the company that created the communications industry.