Principal Architect - OpenText Professional Services

About the role

OpenText Professional Services is looking for a Principal Architect to work with strategic clients on their challenges, requirements and use cases, including solution implementation using the OpenText suite of products through services delivery. The role combines enterprise architecture expertise with a deep understanding of OpenText products, and involves close collaboration with clients, sales and product leadership.

Key responsibilities

• Work with clients and sales to understand their challenges and propose detailed solutions aligned with their current and future roadmap
• Deliver workshops, best practice and educational sessions with clients and partners
• Manage requirements and change requests and provide high-level work estimates and task planning support
• Design and program complex application modules, review design and source code, and take defect prevention steps
• Mentor technical architects and senior engineers, and build high-quality demos for marketing, analyst briefings and pre-sales
• Take ownership of solution quality and document design choices and technical decisions

Required profile

• Strong problem-solving, analytical and design skills, with good experience in data analytics, business intelligence, BPM, CEM, ECM, reporting and data visualisation
• Exposure to public sector, banking, financial services and insurance domains
• Familiarity with the software development lifecycle and software estimation is a must
• Ability to influence the team, engage with clients and travel domestically and abroad as needed

Required skills

• Actuate-BIRT/BDA Analytics (preferred)
• Service Oriented Architecture, SQL, databases and data modelling
• Technical design and testing concepts
• Preferred: W3C standards, object-oriented design, Java, J2EE, Web 2.0