Lead Cloud Applications Consultant, OpenText
CA$111-161k
SQL
Docker
Kubernetes
JavaScript
Python
Java
Postgres
MySQL
Windows
Tomcat
Oracle
Unix
Senior and Expert level
Toronto
Office located in Waterloo, ON
Information management for enterprises
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Information management for enterprises
1001+ employees
B2BArtificial IntelligenceEnterpriseBig dataContentMachine LearningSaaS
Be an early applicant
CA$111-161k
SQL
Docker
Kubernetes
JavaScript
Python
Java
Postgres
MySQL
Windows
Tomcat
Oracle
Unix
Senior and Expert level
Toronto
Office located in Waterloo, ON
1001+ employees
B2BArtificial IntelligenceEnterpriseBig dataContentMachine LearningSaaS
Company mission
To enable intelligent and connected enterprises by managing, leveraging, securing and gaining insight into enterprise information, on-premises or in the cloud.
Role
Who you are
- Leading strategic technical conversations with customers and translating complex information into clear decisions, actions, and business-relevant outcomes
- Building credibility with technical and executive stakeholders through strong judgment, ownership, communication, and follow-through
- Understanding enterprise cloud environments holistically, including applications, infrastructure, integrations, databases, networks, security considerations, and operational dependencies
- Connecting customer goals to practical technical roadmaps, success plans, governance mechanisms, and measurable lifecycle outcomes
- Navigating ambiguity and coordinating multiple teams without losing accountability, urgency, or focus on the customer experience
- Identifying patterns, risks, and improvement opportunities through operational insights, service trends, and knowledge of the customer environment
- Influencing across organizational boundaries and creating alignment among customers, Product, Engineering, Cloud Operations, Professional Services, and Customer Success
- Demonstrating empathy and composure while maintaining a consultative, outcome-focused approach during high-impact situations
- Experience: A minimum of 5–7 years of experience in technical consulting, technical account management, cloud services, enterprise application management, or a comparable customer-facing technology role
- Customer Leadership: Demonstrated experience owning strategic customer relationships, leading technical governance, managing complex stakeholder environments, and guiding customers through critical lifecycle events
- Technical Foundation: Experience with enterprise multi-tiered applications and supporting technologies, including Windows and UNIX administration, TCP/IP networking, relational databases such as Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle, or MySQL, and web or application servers such as IIS, Apache, or Tomcat
- Cloud-Native Technologies: Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm, with the curiosity and willingness to continue developing cloud-native expertise
- Service Management: Experience operating within an ITIL-based service delivery model and an understanding of incident, problem, change, availability, capacity, and service-level management
- Automation and Scripting: Working knowledge of SQL and scripting or programming technologies such as shell, batch, Java, JavaScript, or Python is an asset
- OpenText Experience: Experience with OpenText products such as Content Suite, Exstream, or SuccessFactors is an asset
- Communication: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage technical practitioners, customer leaders, and internal stakeholders effectively
- Language Skills: Bilingual capability in English and French is an asset
- Personal Attributes: A consultative mindset, strong ownership, sound judgment, curiosity, patience, adaptability, and a commitment to delivering exceptional customer outcomes in a dynamic environment
- University or college degree in a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience
- General office environment. Participation in an on-call rotation is required to provide leadership for major incidents and support scheduled activities outside normal business hours. Additional work outside standard hours may be required based on customer priorities, critical events, project schedules, system reliability issues, deadlines, or time-zone differences
- Strategic customers view you as a trusted technical advisor who understands their environment, priorities, and business impact
- Customer risks and lifecycle needs are identified early, governed clearly, and progressed with accountable ownership
- Cross-functional OpenText teams remain aligned around customer outcomes, commitments, and technical priorities
- Customers experience stronger platform health, more effective lifecycle planning, and greater confidence in their OpenText Cloud partnership
What the job involves
- The OpenText Cloud Technical Success Services Team is seeking a Lead Cloud Applications Consultant to provide technical leadership for a portfolio of highly strategic OpenText Cloud customers. This is a consultative, customer-facing role focused on building trusted relationships, understanding each customer’s business and technical priorities, and proactively guiding them toward successful outcomes throughout their cloud lifecycle
- As the technical leader on the account, you will develop a deep understanding of the customer’s hosted environment, applications, operational priorities, and risk profile. You will translate that understanding into a clear technical success plan, lead technical governance, coordinate the right OpenText stakeholders, and ensure the customer experiences a connected and accountable partnership
- You will act as the customer’s trusted advisor and primary technical liaison into OpenText, bringing together Cloud Operations, Product, Engineering, Professional Services, Customer Success, and other teams to drive priorities, manage risk, strengthen platform health, and accelerate value realization
- Own the end-to-end technical success journey for assigned strategic cloud customers, from onboarding and stabilization through adoption, optimization, renewal readiness, and ongoing growth
- Establish and maintain a customer-specific technical success plan aligned to business outcomes, architectural priorities, operational health, service commitments, and lifecycle milestones
- Serve as the primary technical advisor on the account, providing informed recommendations, clear guidance, and leadership across complex cloud application and platform matters
- Build trusted relationships with customer technical leaders and stakeholders through proactive communication, transparency, accountability, and a strong understanding of their priorities
- Act as the customer’s liaison into OpenText, orchestrating cross-functional teams and ensuring technical issues, risks, dependencies, and commitments have clear ownership and momentum
- Lead recurring technical governance and service reviews, providing meaningful insights into platform health, trends, risks, major initiatives, and recommended actions
- Proactively identify technical, operational, and lifecycle risks before they affect customer outcomes, and coordinate mitigation plans with the customer and internal teams
- Provide technical leadership during critical incidents and complex escalations, ensuring effective stakeholder coordination, timely communication, sound technical direction, and disciplined follow-through
- Review Root Cause Analyses for technical accuracy, clarity, and completeness, and help translate findings into preventive actions and customer-relevant outcomes
- Guide customers through upgrades, migrations, releases, changes, capacity considerations, resilience planning, and other key events across their cloud lifecycle
- Champion customer priorities internally, helping OpenText teams understand business impact, urgency, and the technical context required to make informed decisions
- Develop deep expertise in one or more OpenText solutions or technical domains and use that expertise to strengthen customer outcomes and team capability
- Create and deliver reusable knowledge, technical guidance, and best practices that improve consistency, readiness, and scale across the broader Technical Success organization
Our take
Founded in 1991, OpenText has spent more than three decades quietly becoming one of the world's most important players in enterprise information management, Its software helps some of the largest companies, governments and professional services firms tame the vast volumes of unstructured data that modern organisations generate every day.
Rather than standing still, OpenText has consistently evolved with the market. And in 2023, it pushed into the AI era with the launch of OpenText Aviator, a generative AI platform designed to power business networks and streamline IT operations, signalling that the company very much intends to stay relevant as enterprise technology shifts.
This momentum shows no signs of slowing down either. Alongside steady internal innovation, OpenText continues to grow through strategic acquisitions. And the company's culture seems to be keeping pace as well, having recently been named one of Forbes' World's Best Employers, recognized as one of Canada's Top Employers for Young People, and included in TIME's life of the World's BEst Companies, a huge endorsement that its long-term success is being built on more than just software.
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21% employee growth in 12 months
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