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- The Information Company 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 prospect 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.

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 are hiring talent AI can't replace to help us shape the future of information management. Join us.

Opentext
- The Information Company 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 prospect 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. 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 are hiring talent AI can't replace to help us shape the future of information management. Join us.

Your Impact OpenText is a world leader in Information Management, where innovation, creativity, and collaboration are key components of our corporate culture. As a member of the Digital Experience Web Development team, you will help design, build, and operate secure, scalable digital platforms and AI-enabled solutions that serve customers and employees globally.

As a

Principal IT Systems Architect focused on AI solutions ,



you will be a recognized internal expert responsible for the architecture, development, and deployment direction of sustainable technical and application solutions. You will translate complex business requirements into target architectures, lead large-scale solution initiatives, establish standards and reusable patterns, and guide solutions from proof of concept through governed production operation.

What The Role Offers Lead the end-to-end architecture of AI-enabled applications, agentic workflows, web platforms, APIs, integrations, data services, and cloud deployment models. Translate business outcomes and non-functional requirements into current-state, target-state, transition, integration, security, data, and operational architectures. Define scalable patterns for AI application hosting, model access, retrieval-augmented generation, orchestration, identity, authorization, secrets, data boundaries, observability, evaluation, and human oversight. Research, evaluate, prototype, test, certify, and select technology products and services required for solution delivery. Establish technology migration strategies, reference architectures, reusable components, architecture guardrails, decision records, and production-readiness criteria. Lead architecture workshops, assessments, technical deep dives, design reviews, and governance checkpoints across business, engineering, infrastructure, security, privacy, legal, data,



and operations stakeholders. Guide solutions through proof of concept, pilot, and production, ensuring clear ownership, measurable value, risk treatment, support models, and lifecycle controls. Identify and resolve significant and unique architectural issues where analysis requires evaluation of complex variables and intangible trade-offs. Provide technical leadership and direction to developers, platform engineers, DevOps engineers, analysts, vendors, and partner teams without relying on direct reporting authority. Lead large-scale projects or programs with sizeable functional impact and accountability for end-to-end technical outcomes. Define and champion engineering standards for secure software delivery, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, testing, AI evaluation, monitoring, reliability, cost management, and incident response. Communicate complex architecture decisions in clear business context to senior leaders and diverse stakeholders. Build formal and informal networks across teams, simplify competing viewpoints, and drive alignment on strategic technology decisions. Monitor industry developments and recommend practical adoption of emerging AI, cloud, identity, security, and web technologies.

What You Need To Succeed Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience. 12 years of related professional experience, including significant architecture and hands-on software or platform engineering experience. Demonstrated experience leading large-scale solution architecture from business requirements through implementation and production operation. Deep expertise across several

📌 Principal Systems Architect (Richmond Hill)
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📍 Richmond Hill