[Web4lib] Job Opportunity (CACI) : Lucene Search Consultant to assist Library of Congress digital initiatives (DC)

[Terry Harrison]

Lucene Search Consultant
(Washington, DC)

CACI-ISS has an immediate, full-time onsite opportunity for a 
developer/architect well versed in search and discovery to assist the 
Library of Congress in their ongoing digital initiatives.
 
Ideal candidates are familiar with a variety of concepts, practices, and 
procedures, and will rely on extensive experience and judgment to plan and 
accomplish goals. Expect a wide degree of creative license and latitude.

The ideal candidate will have solid, practical experience with Lucene and 
be able to understand and optimize how to improve the existing 
relationships between the retrieval and repository layers of the 
application.


Duties:
Develop a layer in our repository architecture to efficiently locate and 
retrieve content from different content repositories.

Develop index and access methods for efficient search and retrieval of 
textual and non-textual content from different repositories.

Develop interfaces between the retrieval layer and underlying repository 
architecture.

Develop semantic models for efficient location and retrieval of digital 
content from different repositories.


Skills:
Degree Bachelor's or higher in Computer Science or related field. 

A degree in Library Sciences, Information Sciences or Decision Sciences 
with strong experience in software engineering would be considered.

Working experience (tuning, interfacing, development) with commercial and 
open source search engines using large and heterogeneous datasets. 
Significant experience working with Lucene is a must.

Experience in implementation of index and access methods for databases and 
for other content-based systems. 

Working knowledge of semantic aspects of search and retrieval.

Knowledge of data mining and knowledge discovery is a plus.



Email resume and salary expectations to:
teharrison at caci.com