Lead Automation Architect

Overview

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 are hiring talent AI can\'t replace to help us shape the future of information management. Join us. YOUR IMPACT: As a Lead Automation Architect, you will establish the technical foundation of this initiative designing architectures, frameworks, and reusable patterns that empower teams to build automation once and scale it across multiple platforms and services. You will champion best practices that streamline operations, accelerate delivery, and improve overall service resilience. We are looking for a strategic, automation-driven technical leader who thrives on defining standards and collaborating across functions to deliver highly reliable, scalable services for OpenText’s enterprise cloud platforms. In this role, you will be a driving force behind a new enterprise-wide automation program aimed at reducing operational toil, enhancing system reliability, and enabling intelligent, scalable IT operations. This is a senior individual contributor role with strong technical leadership influence, ideal for someone who enjoys working at the intersection of platform engineering, SRE, and automation strategy. You’ll have the opportunity to make a visible, organization-wide impact by shaping how automation is adopted and scaled across diverse teams and environments. Responsibilities

Define and own the technical architecture for the enterprise automation program, including tooling, frameworks, and integration patterns. Design scalable automation solutions supporting platform and infrastructure use cases such as provisioning, configuration management, patching, lifecycle operations, observability, and remediation. Establish and maintain automation standards, including:

Development and coding standards Reusability and modular design patterns Logging, metrics, and observability requirements Lifecycle management, versioning, and repository standards

Serve as a design authority for complex or high‑impact automation initiatives, reviewing solution designs and ensuring alignment with architectural standards. Partner with SRE, platform engineering, security, and product teams to ensure automations are reliable, secure, and production‑ready. Define and enforce repository standards, including structure, branching and release strategies, documentation requirements, access controls, and lifecycle governance to ensure automation assets are secure, maintainable, discoverable, and reusable at scale. Contribute to automation enablement through reference architectures, design templates, technical documentation, and knowledge sharing across teams. Qualifications

7+ years of experience in platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, SRE, or automation‑centric roles. Proven experience designing and implementing automation at scale in enterprise environments. Hands‑on expertise with automation technologies such as: Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM) Configuration management and orchestration tools (e.g., Ansible, Puppet, Chef) Scripting languages (e.g., Python, PowerShell, Bash) Source control and CI/CD platforms (e.g., GitLab and GitLab CI/CD) Agentic and workflow‑driven automation, including event‑driven or AI‑assisted workflows Strong understanding of SRE fundamentals and production operations, including reliability and resilience, observability capabilities, and service delivery through automated deployment and runtime operations. Ability to operate independently on complex technical problems and influence across teams without direct authority. Nice to have

Experience defining automation standards or frameworks adopted by multiple teams and supporting on‑premises and cloud environments, including hybrid and multi‑cloud platforms. Exposure to operational intelligence, analytics‑driven automation, or AIOps concepts. EEO and Accommodation

OpenText is committed to diversity and inclusion and maintains an Equal Employment Opportunity policy that promotes a respectful and empowering environment for employees of all backgrounds, 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 submit a ticket at Ask HR. Compensation and AI Usage Disclosure

Compensation: OpenText offers a benefits package that supports physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing. Details about compensation programs, vacation entitlement, and paid time off are shared during the hiring process. Salary Range: $98,080-147,120; actual salary may vary based on education, experience, skills, location, internal equity, and external market conditions. AI Usage Disclosure: OpenText uses artificial intelligence tools to assist in recruitment processes. All hiring decisions are made by qualified humans, and AI systems are monitored for fairness and compliance.

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