Lead Data Architect & Developer

As a Lead Data Architect & Developer at OpenText, you will be pivotal in shaping our enterprise data strategy and building scalable, high-quality data models. This hybrid role involves driving data architecture, governance, and model design, while also supporting integration, decision-making, and digital transformation. You will collaborate with engineering, product, and business teams to ensure the data ecosystem supports current needs and future growth, maintaining conceptual, logical, and physical data models across cross-functional workflows.

Must Have

• Shape enterprise data strategy and build scalable, high-quality data models
• Drive data architecture, governance, and model design
• Support integration, decision-making, and digital transformation
• Collaborate with engineering, product, PMs, and business teams
• Architect, maintain, and govern conceptual, logical, and physical data models
• Establish and enforce data standards, governance frameworks, taxonomies, and metadata best practices
• Support integration efforts and design common data sets across platforms
• Create tools/processes that improve productivity across teams
• Partner with QA to automate processes and ensure high-quality delivery
• Work with globally distributed teams and provide production support
• Mentor team members and foster a culture of technical excellence
• 8+ years in data architecture with strong experience in data modeling, governance, and Java-based development
• Expertise in relational and NoSQL databases, JSON structures, and industry-standard modeling tools
• Experience with RESTful APIs, microservices, cloud platforms, and CI/CD pipelines
• Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field

Good to Have

• Exposure to Python
• AI model integration
• EDI

Description

AI-First. Future-Driven. Human-Centered.

At OpenText, AI is at the heart of everything we do—powering innovation, transforming work, and empowering digital knowledge workers. We're hiring talent that AI can't replace to help us shape the future of information management. Join us.

OpenText Business Network is the global leader in B2B and A2A integrations. We boost the competitiveness of businesses worldwide by connecting them with their business partners seamlessly, through the world’s largest and most scalable information network. In Business Network, we create frictionless interaction between companies—from the cloud to the client—through a secure, reliable, and data-rich platform: Trading Grid.

Your Impact

As a Lead Data Architect & Developer, you will shape our enterprise data strategy and build scalable, high-quality data models that enable interoperability across systems. This role blends strategy and hands-on development—driving data architecture, governance, and model design while supporting integration, decision-making, and digital transformation. You’ll collaborate with engineering, product, PMs, and business teams to ensure our data ecosystem supports current needs and future growth.

What the Role Offers

• Architect, maintain, and govern conceptual, logical, and physical data models across cross-functional workflows.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, PMs, and business teams to align architecture with business goals and convert pain points into technical requirements.
• Establish and enforce data standards, governance frameworks, taxonomies, and metadata best practices.
• Support integration efforts and design common data sets across platforms to reduce redundancy and improve data quality.
• Create tools/processes that improve productivity across Product, Engineering, Professional Services, and Project Management teams.
• Partner with QA to automate processes and ensure high-quality delivery while following Agile practices.
• Work with globally distributed teams and provide production support when needed.
• Mentor team members and foster a culture of technical excellence.

What You Need to Succeed

• 8+ years in data architecture with strong experience in data modeling, governance, and Java-based development.
• Expertise in relational and NoSQL databases, JSON structures, and industry-standard modeling tools.
• Experience with RESTful APIs, microservices, cloud platforms, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong communication and leadership skills with the ability to collaborate across geographies.
• Exposure to Python, AI model integration, and EDI (nice-to-have).
• Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.

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.