Senior OpenText Technical Lead to support a large content migration (Open Text) to cloud and new integrations to core systems

Location: Downtown Toronto - predominately remote (onsite once a month)

Contract: Until Dec 31, 2026 (14 months)

Hours: 40 per week

Technical Lead for the OpenText Migration Project is responsible for overseeing all technical aspects of the migration and solution, ensuring the successful transfer of data, processes, and integrations to the new OpenText platform. This individual will lead and facilitate technical discussions with a variety of stakeholders and vendors, to resolve technical challenges, provide expert recommendations and effectively drive decisions. The Technical Lead will also manage risk, ensure quality, and guide the project team through complex technical challenges.

Must Haves:

• Must have experience with OpenText Content server
• Experience in leading a large-scale migration
• Experience as a Technical lead
• Opentext on prem to cloud project
• Implementation of a migration project
• Strategy, data mapping
• Really need someone to be a leader and voice
• Be able to drive discussions, drive the technical outcomes
• BOTH technically strong and have the soft skills to communicate and work with stakeholders, manage push back

Responsibilities

1. Provide Technical Leadership and Lead Technical Solutioning Discussions

- Facilitate and drive technical conversations, workshops, and resolve technical issues with project teams, vendors and stakeholders.

2. Provide Expertise in OpenText Migration

- Oversee and provide subject matter expertise for the migration of OpenText environments from on-premise to cloud platforms.

- Ensure seamless integration of OpenText solutions with other enterprise applications (e.g., SAP, Microsoft 365, Salesforce).

3. Design and Oversee Complex Solution Integrations

- Lead the technical design and integration of multiple business systems, ensuring interoperability and optimal performance.

- Resolve issues related to development and deployment activities across various platforms.

4. Apply and Promote Industry Standards and Best Practices

- Ensure all technical solutions adhere to industry standards, best practices, and organizational guidelines specific to ECM and OpenText.

- Stay current with new methodologies, tools, and approaches, and advocate their adoption where appropriate.

Knowledge & Skills

1. Technical Leadership

- Demonstrated technical leadership to facilitate complex technical discussions to resolve technical challenges and drive decisions.

-- Demonstrated authority in solution design, making informed architectural decisions and advocating for best practices.

2. Facilitation & Stakeholder Management

- Skilled at engaging and facilitating discussions among diverse stakeholders (business, technical teams, vendors, and external partners).

- Ability to extract and synthesize requirements, priorities, and constraints from multiple sources to inform technical direction.

- Experience managing and aligning multiple vendors to ensure cohesive delivery and timely resolution of issues.

3. Communication & Influence

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, able to translate complex technical concepts for both technical and non-technical audiences.

- Confident presenting technical recommendations and negotiating outcomes with authority and diplomacy.

- Experience building consensus and securing buy-in for proposed solutions.

4. OpenText Migration & Enterprise Integration Expertise

- Demonstrated experience with OpenText migration projects, with a focus on migrating from on-premise OpenText environments to OpenText Cloud.

- Ability to oversee end-to-end technical design, development, and deployment involving OpenText and major enterprise applications (such as SAP, Microsoft 365, or Salesforce).

5. Industry Standards and Best Practices

- Comprehensive knowledge of industry standards and best practices specific to OpenText and enterprise content management systems (ECM).

- Skilled in systems analysis, architectural design, development, testing, and deployment methodologies, including tools and techniques relevant to content management.

6. Specialized OpenText Knowledge

- Deep, hands-on knowledge of niche OpenText technologies, specifically OpenText Extended ECM (xECM) and Content Server, including configuration, customization, and integration capabilities