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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.\nAI-First. Future-Driven. Human-Centered.\nAt 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.\nYOUR IMPACT\nAs 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 not only streamline operations but also 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.\nThis is a senior individual contributor role with strong technical leadership influence, ideal for someone who enjoys working at the intersection of platform development, 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.\nWHAT THE ROLE OFFERS\nDefine and own the technical architecture for the enterprise automation program, including tooling, frameworks, and integration patterns.\nDesign scalable automation solutions supporting platform and infrastructure use cases such as provisioning, configuration management, patching, lifecycle operations, observability, and remediation.\nEstablish and maintain automation standards, including:Development and coding standards\nReusability and modular design patterns\nLogging, metrics, and observability requirements\nLifecycle management, versioning, and repository standards\n\nServe as a design authority for complex or high-impact automation initiatives, reviewing solution designs and ensuring alignment with architectural standards.\nPartner with SRE, platform development, security, and product teams to ensure automations are reliable, secure, and production-ready.\nDefine 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.\nContribute to automation enablement through reference architectures, design templates, technical documentation, and knowledge sharing across teams.\nWHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED\n7+ years of experience in platform engineering, infrastructure development, SRE, or automation-centric roles.\nProven experience designing and implementing automation at scale in enterprise environments.\nHands-on expertise with automation technologies such as:Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM)\nConfiguration management and orchestration tools (e.g., Ansible, Puppet, Chef)\nScripting languages (e.g., Python, PowerShell, Bash)\nSource control and CI/CD platforms (e.g., GitLab and GitLab CI/CD)\nAgentic and workflow-driven automation, including event-driven or AI-assisted workflows\n\nStrong understanding of SRE fundamentals and production operations, including reliability and resilience, observability capabilities, and service delivery through automated deployment and runtime operations.\nAbility to operate independently on complex technical problems and influence across teams without direct authority.\nExperience defining automation standards or frameworks adopted by multiple teams and supporting on-premises and cloud environments, including hybrid and multi-cloud platforms.\nExposure to operational intelligence, analytics-driven automation, or AIOps concepts.\nOne Last Thing\nOpenText is more than just a corporation, it's a global community where trust is foundational, the bar is raised, and outcomes are owned.\nJoin us on our mission to drive positive change through privacy, technology, and collaboration. At OpenText, we don't just have a culture; we have character. Choose us because you want to be part of a company that embraces innovation and empowers its employees to make a difference.\nOpenText's commitment to diversity and inclusion surpasses legal requirements, evident in our Equal Employment Opportunity Statement of Policy which 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.\nIf 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. 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