Principal Software Engineer

Opentext - The Information Company

As the Information Company, our mission at OpenText is to create software solutions and deliver services that redefine the future of digital. Be part of a winning team that leads the way in Enterprise Information Management.

The Opportunity

OpenText is looking for an experienced Architect to be a key member of the global El Dorado Architecture team. El Dorado is new and leading service/business integration platform which will serve to unify selling, provisioning, management and billing (full lifecycle orchestration) of all OpenText Small and Medium Business Products. The successful candidate will help develop, steer and deliver our new architecture and will be the Architecture Team liaison for the Engineering organization in India. This is a rare opportunity to participate from the earliest stages of development of a cloud native, hyperscaler-enabled, API-driven and Responsive Web business enablement infrastructure that will ultimately be a market conduit for hundreds of diverse products and marshal billions of dollars of business for OpenText partners and customers. Due to the diversity and scale of integration requirements, applied technologies will span Linux/Windows/Azure/Amazon environments. Candidate subsystem technologies, will include React, Angular, Kubernetes/containers, IPaaS, MongoDB, Redis, Postgresql, Elasticsearch, API Gateway Micro Frontend and many other contemporary software enablers.

You Are Great At
• Translate business and project specific needs/requirements into a cloud structure that is resource usage aware and scalable across a distributed system
• Designing the cloud environment with cloud security principles and data integrity throughout the system
• Adopt or design and maintain reference architectures for the platform and across services
• Manage central backlog of architecture work items
• Actively participate in a global Architecture Council to Steer Architecture Initiatives
• Develop and maintain a deep understanding of high level service designs across the entire product/service portfolio
• Participate in meetings with current and potential partner, vendors and acquisition targets and be comfortable working at a peer level with the CTO or Chief Architect of such organizations
• Evaluate vendors and technology using an Architecture-team-developed standards
• Keep abreast of new technologies that might be beneficial to the organization
• Do or facilitate proof-of-concepts, often involving coding
• Attend industry forums in order to be able to see what new technologies are attractive for us
• Contribute to competitive positioning and analysis at an architectural level
• Give architectural guidance for El Dorado R&D projects and steer common architecture subsystem choices and patterns across teams
• Attend and represent strategic technology topics with company senior management.
• Liaise directly with business stakeholders to understand business problems and propose/drive effective solution architectures