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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.

 

Your Impact:
The ESM R&D team is seeking an Engineering manager, to join our Global R&D team to deliver innovative enterprise software solutions by working in a fast paced challenging and enriching environment. This is a high-growth business, and our solutions are used by enterprise class highly demanding customers across the globe. We are using a Microservices based architecture composed of multiple services running on Kubernetes using Docker Containers.

The Engineering Manager, within Software Engineering R&D is responsible for setting direction and leadership to development teams, working on medium to large scale global projects. She/he will be responsible for Technical Direction to the teams, Project Management and People Management for driving the R&D functions..

What the role offers:

Guiding the team on technical and functional aspects of the project, being a technical hands-on Manager.  Helps team achieve sprint/release goals while partnering with the Product Manager on overall business goals.Work with cross-functional teams to ensure plans & resources are coordinated, and project deliverables are well defined, scoped and achieved.Deliver assigned projects on time, budget and agreed quality standards.Drive the planning, daily stand-ups and result oriented retrospectives.Provide guidance, technical feedback and ensure release goal is achieved.Provide visibility to team impediments/risks and help eliminate them.Provide resource forecasting and optimize usage of resources.Ensure appropriate and timely reporting. Manage communication cross-functionally and escalate promptly when issues arise.Ensure Team development and career progression. Align with internal development process and improve the in-house methodology and delivery processes.Provide guidance, technical feedback and ensure project delivery success.Help the team to be innovative and improve thingsBe part of organization-wide initiatives and drive the changes

What you need to succeed:

BE CS or equivalent experience, 12+ years of industry engineering experience, with at least 4 years in a management or project management position. Must have hands-on full stack development experience in systems level engineering with emphasis on application and communications architectures, data management, and low-level application infrastructure. Must have experience in development of Enterprise scale, mission-critical, highly available, systems-level applications using J2EE, React, Angular, AngularJS, Kubernetes/containers, PostgreSQLExposure and knowledge to building Microservices based applications, hands-on in Cloud Native architecture, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, GCP Cloud Environments, building RESTful Web Services will be an advantage. Proven track record of successful project/program management of mid to large  size projects/products.Prior working experience in product development companies, working on large Enterprise Scale applications would be essential. Agile project management experience is a must. Experience with SAFe is an advantage. Excellent communication and people leadership is mandatory. Ability to organize, plan and create a team environment where everyone in the  team can perform at their best.Ability to serve as a technical leader and mentor at an architectural and coding level to the team. Should have good understanding and hands-on with tools related to CI-CD/DevOps.
 

 One last thing:

OpenText is more than just a corporation, it's a global community where trust is foundational, the bar is raised, and outcomes are owned.
Join 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.

 

 

 

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If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please contact us at hr@opentext.com. Our proactive approach fosters collaboration, innovation, and personal growth, enriching OpenText's vibrant workplace.