Barclays Now is the main intranet platform in the Barclays network. Serving strongly diversified content to more than 180.000 employees, having a federated, centralized search solution has been key to the success of the project.
Sease has worked with Barclays with the focus of improving the search capabilities of the Barclays Now intranet platform.
// Activities Covered
Software Engineering
Design and development of a federated search solution across a number of diversified data sources
Refactor of the Search-API layer introducing unit and integration tests
Search relevancy tuning (field weighting, stemming and partial match)
Advanced search relevancy tuning (including personalisation of search results)
Advanced spellcheck design and configuration
Faceting design and implementation
Apache Solr upgrade analysis, design and roadmap proposal
SolrCloud live incidents troubleshooting and investigations
Design and development of the automated release process through all the environments
Supervise and coordinate the search team through all the processes
Agile
Mentor Agile ceremonies in a sprint based approach ( Backlog grooming, Sprint planning, Stand Up meeting, Sprint Retrospective) encouraging best practices and curating a productive Jira workflow
Business Analysis
Supervise the business analysis tasks with direct collaboration with Senior Stakeholders to gather requirements and elaborate appropriate solutions