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

What it takes:


10+ years of software development experience with 5+ years leading system design
2+ years of experience leading projects or teams
Strong planning, analysis, and problem-solving skills
Ability to scope discussions and effectively communicate solutions to different audiences at various levels of detail
Strong background in distributed application architectures and network communications
Public/hyperscaler and private cloud technology savvy
Exposure to evolution of services from customer premises to various cloud infrastructures
Literacy in many competing front-end and back-end patterns, frameworks, services, and solutions with the ability to weigh them against desired technical outcomes
Enterprise Architecture including experience connecting to backoffice system like Salesforce, SAP and Netsuite including IPaaS (Integration Platform as a Service).
Experience with data governance system models including data residency application across points of presents
Very strong communication skills
Self-directed with consensus building and (data driven) influence management skills

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