Principal Architect

Job description

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OpenText - The Information Company
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.

AI-First.

Future-Driven.

Human-Centered.


At OpenText, AI is at the heart of everything we do—powering innovation, transforming work, and empowering digital knowledge workers.

We're hiring talent that AI can't replace to help us shape the future of information management.

Join us.

The Opportunity
OpenText Professional Services Principal Architect Services Practice role focuses on working with our strategic customers and understanding their challenges, requirements and use cases around initiatives such as Solution implementation using OpenText suite of products through services delivery.

The Principal Architect designs impactful solutions and experiences that cross disciplines, bring together people and technology, and enable end-end Enterprise implementation.

They’re experts in enterprise architecture, software development, information security, and good understanding of OpenText suite of products.

You Are Great At

• Focus on strategic customer opportunities and delivering value to our customers.
  
  
• Create solutions which show the broader value of OTPS services solutions and at times in conjunction with strategic partners
• Work with Product Development and Leadership to shape customer demands for product areas.
  
  
• Develop cross functional team members according to the demands of the business and according to their individual professional goals
• Experience and understanding of multiple technical domains - application, data, integration, big data, mobility, analytics, BPM, CEM/CCM, etc.
  
  
• Intrinsically curious and passionate about researching current and emerging technologies and developing innovative solutions
• Facilitate and participate in the delivery of workshops, best practice and educational sessions with customers and partners
• Understands the business requirements, proposes the solution considering the current & future roadmap of customer.
  
  
• Offers design choices with their pros and cons and recommends the best design suited for the given context.
  
  
• Identifies and manages the requirements and Change requests effectively for consistent communication with all the stakeholders
• Designs and programs complex modules of an application taking into consideration the functional and non-functional aspects
• Takes ownership of solution quality.
  
  Actively and effectively reviews design, source code, takes defect prevention steps in software development
• Provides high level work estimates and assists in task planning & task allocation
• Mentors technical architects and senior engineers within the team, guides them in their work
• Passionate about new technologies/innovations happening around.
  
  Constantly upgrades knowledge on latest technologies and standards
• Should be able to conceptualize and build high quality demos for marketing or analyst briefings, pre-sales opportunities
• Travel within the country and abroad as per project needs

What It Takes

• Should have very good problem solving, analytical, design and Business Consultant skills.
  
  
• He/she should be strong in analysis and design with good work experience in Data analytics, business intelligence, BPM, CEM, ECM, reporting & data visualizations.
  
  
• Has exposure & experience in providing the best end user experience for data visualizations & dashboards
• Hands on experience in Actuate-BIRT / BDA Analytics are preferred
• Experience in public sector, Banking, Financial services & Insurance domains
• Familiarity with software development lifecycle and software estimation is a must.
  
  
• As a technical leader, should be able to influence others in the team by clearly articulating the reasons and providing justifications for technical decisions made
• Must have experience in engaging and interacting with customers
• Should possess excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  
  Must have a flair for clearly documenting design choices or technical decisions made

Furthermore, Principal Architects Possesses In Depth Technical Knowledge On

• Service Oriented Architecture
• W3C Standards, Object Orientation, JAVA, J2EE, Web 2.0 technologies
• SQL, Software Development Methodologies
• Databases, data modeling
• Writing Technical Designs & Testing concepts

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.

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Required Skill Profession

It Management & It Project Management, Software Architecture & Engineering