Principal Engineer : Marketplace Search

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Principal Engineer: Marketplace Search 

Amex GBT is a place where colleagues find inspiration in travel as a force for good and – through their work – can make an impact on our industry. We’re here to help our colleagues achieve success and offer an inclusive and collaborative culture where your voice is valued. 

The Marketplace Search team builds features and experiences to empower our travelers to search for all our product offerings and allow travelers to book their complete trips on the platform.  

Summary of Job Description :

To provide nextGen Search architecture and leadership to Marketplace Team across our GBT Solutions. This position will closely work with Product owners, business partners and Search engineers to come up with nextGen architecture plans, technology choices, design and lifecycle, and information integrity. A search principal engineer will resolve,  develop architectural approaches & solutions, conduct architectural reviews and recommend how to proceed with the applications (replace, retire, maintain, etc.).

What you'll do:

• Owning the development of nextGen Architecture Solutions for Marketplace Team.
• Leading in the evaluation of new technology around Search – Semantic search, LLMs, Vector Databases.

• Drive overall search platform roadmap and implementations 

• Participate in the Architecture assessment and design for infrastructure domains that provide core capabilities for the Marketplace. 

• Participate in the Architecture design of integrated systems across Marketplace and GBT solutions. 

• Define which data is extracted and the rules by which it is transformed for simple to moderately sophisticated projects. 

• Participate in nextGen technology evaluation and recommendations. 

• Participate in the development and maintenance of current and planned north star architecture. 

• Applies a GBT wide view to support the adoption of standards and practices and promote reuse, specifically around AI Search. 

• Participate in the design and implementation of Marketplace data model and metadata structures. 

• Participates in the analysis of technology industry and market trends to resolve their potential impact on the Marketplace Architecture. 

What You Will Have: 

• Ability to effectively communicate with internal and external teams that include business partners and third-party vendors. 

• Guides engineers and resources on the techniques and approaches used in design processes.