Principal Software Architect

OPENTEXT 
OpenText is a global leader in information management, where innovation, creativity, and collaboration are the key components of our corporate culture. As a member of our team, you will have the opportunity to partner with the most highly regarded companies in the world, tackle complex issues, and contribute to projects that shape the future of digital transformation.

The Opportunity:
 
Open Text brings critical technologies to support our customers’ growing needs to digitize and work smarter. We are proven market leaders in Content Services, Business Network, Digital Experience and Cybersecurity. Our organisation brings new categories of AI & Analytics, Application Modernization & Delivery, and Digital Operations Management. OpenText powers and protects information to elevate every person and every organization to be their best. We help customers gain an information advantage and accelerate their digital transformation.

This is an exciting opportunity for a Principal Software Architect to work with a team of driven, experienced engineers, developers, and architects building our next-generation analytics platform for our fast-growing SaaS business.

You are great at:
•       Working closely with other stakeholders – other architects, product managers, customer advocates, and other software development staff – to iteratively design and deliver Non-SaaS and SaaS applications.
•    Exploring new technology options that help to solve challenging problems or address customer needs.
•    Designing and building solutions that are highly scalable and performant with huge amounts of data.
•    Identify and address technical or operational risks.

What it takes:
•       14+ years of experience with recent three years in Software Architecture, design, and development roles.
•    Minimum of two years working with SaaS, Cloud and Server-less technologies.
•    Experience with microservice architectures and services (serverless, containers, Kubernetes, etc.), REST API development, and event-driven architectures.
•    Comprehensive development experience is essential (Java).
•    Good at SQL and Scripting
•    Ability to articulate and present architectural approaches and decisions to various stakeholders.
•    A willingness to roll up your sleeves as needed.
•    Good understanding in JavaScript, Python
•    Experience with automated CI/CD pipelines
•    Certification on Cloud technologies (GCP, AWS)

OpenText's efforts to build an inclusive work environment go beyond simply complying with applicable laws. Our Employment Equity and Diversity Policy provides direction on maintaining a working environment that is inclusive of everyone, regardless of culture, national origin, race, color, gender, gender identification, sexual orientation, family status, age, veteran status, disability, religion, or other basis protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please contact us at hr@opentext.com.