Sr. Manager Application Development-Search
The Sr. Manager Application Development plans, organizes, and administers the programs and activities of at least one major application development or support area. This position will manage teams in development, installation, and maintenance of integrated information technology. This role will specialize within search platform management and strategy.
This position is located in Springfield, MO.
AREAS OF FOCUS
Search Strategy & Planning:
- Develop and execute a comprehensive search strategy aligned with business goals and customer needs.
- Define and report on metrics to measure search effectiveness.
- Conduct search analytics and customer behavior analysis to identify areas for improvement.
Search Platform Management:
- Manage and maintain Solr cloud clusters, ensuring high availability, performance, and scalability.
- Configure and optimize search indexes, schemas, and query pipelines.
- Implement and manage search relevance tuning, including boosting, weighting, and synonym management.
- Monitor search platform performance and troubleshoot issues.
Data Integration & Quality:
- Develop and implement data ingestion pipelines and processes.
- Ensure data quality and consistency for search indexing for a complex catalog.
- Provide a highly personalized search experience for all commerce channels.
Team Leadership & Collaboration:
- Lead and mentor search engineers and analysts.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product/stakeholders, engineering, and data science.
- Communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS
- Manage the analysis, design, development, implementation, and testing of application projects utilizing the approved development methodologies and standards.
- Lead multiple teams to achieve results by providing direction, timely developmental feedback, and coaching
- Provide leadership and growth coaching for reporting teams; document strategies and objectives for all reporting team members to grow within the company.
- Build effective teams, allocate personnel, guide teams in using established best practices and collaborate with other managers on the development of new best practices and standards where needed.
- Lead decisions regarding hiring and promoting team members.
- Responsible for all new and modified systems in area of responsibility.
- Assess the value of projects and prioritize accordingly.
- Guide users in formulating requirements; advise on alternatives and on the implications of new or revised applications.
- Collaborate with key stakeholders to determine software project requirements and design, project prioritization and planning, and monitoring and reporting progress of all projects.
- Manage capacity planning and resource allocation, team operating, and capital budget planning process.
- Oversee third party evaluation and contract review.
- Maintain a broad knowledge of technology trends, equipment, and/or systems.
- Ensure team member compliance with O’Reilly policies and procedures, including Data Integrity, Software Development Methodology, Project Tracking, and all required regulatory standards.
- Actively lead the department; prepare and give presentations to the department where appropriate.
- Analyze project proposals and requirements.
- Conduct research and feasibility studies.
- Coordinate and manage the efforts of multiple application development teams.
- All other duties as assigned.
SKILLS/EDUCATION/KNOWLEDGE/EXPERIENCE/ABILITIES
Required:
- 12+ years of software development experience and/or leadership experience in an area applicable to O’Reilly
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related field (10+ years O’Reilly software development or functional experience considered in lieu of degree)
- Proven experience in search relevance tuning, query optimization, and performance monitoring.
- Strong understanding of information retrieval principles and search algorithms.
- Experience with data integration and ETL processes.
- Experience with search analytics and reporting tools.
- Experience with cloud-based search solutions.
- Experience with Java and/or Python.
- Expertise in Solr and/or Elasticsearch configuration and administration.
- Proficiency in query languages (e.g., Lucene query syntax, Elasticsearch DSL).
- Familiarity with DevOps practices and tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
- Experience with machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) in search applications.
- Experience with e-commerce search or enterprise search solutions.
- Expert knowledge of established programming procedures and programming languages related to the position and technology base
- Exceptional problem-solving, conflict resolution, and mediation skills
- Excellent oral and written communications skills
- Flexible scheduling availability including nights and weekends Must work well in a team environment with the ability to lead and manage a team
- Ability to implement and troubleshoot programming changes and modifications
- Ability to write technical instructions in the use of programs and/or program modifications
- Excellent project management skills
Desired:
- Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Advanced Education in Project Management and Leadership
- ITIL Certification
O’Reilly Auto Parts has a proven track record of growth and stability. O’Reilly is full of successful career stories and believes in a strong promote-from-within philosophy, encouraging you to grow your career along with the organization.
Total Compensation Package:
Competitive Wages & Paid Time Off
Stock Purchase Plan & 401k with Employer Contributions Starting Day One
Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance with Optional Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Team Member Health/Wellbeing Programs
Tuition Educational Assistance Programs
Opportunities for Career Growth
O’Reilly Auto Parts is an equal opportunity employer. The Company does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin or ancestry (including immigration status or citizenship), sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation, and related medical conditions,) age (40 and over), veteran status, uniformed service member status, physical or mental disability, genetic information (including testing or characteristics) or another protected status as defined by local, state, or federal law, as applicable.
Qualified individuals with a disability may be entitled to reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act. If you require a reasonable accommodation during the application or employment process, please send an email to: rar@oreillyauto.com or call 417-862-2674, ext. 68901, and provide your requested accommodation, and position details.
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