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Sr. Technical Project Manager

OpenText2 days ago
Waterloo, ON
Senior Level

About the role

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 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.

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.

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.

Your Impact:
This role is critical to our strategic success. By expertly managing engineering integrations and divestitures, you will directly enable the company’s growth initiatives, ensuring that technologies and teams are efficiently brought into our fold and that strategic separations occur smoothly. Your work will minimize disruption, accelerate time-to-value for acquisitions, and maintain operational continuity during divestitures. Ultimately, you will empower our engineering organization to scale effectively, maintain high standards of technical excellence, and contribute to the overall agility and profitability of OpenText.

**What the role offers:**As Senior Technical Project Manager, you will:

  • Develop and execute comprehensive Engineering project plans for acquisitions and divestitures, covering infrastructure, tools, processes, and people.
  • Partner with due diligence teams to identify integration complexities, risks, and opportunities, embedding findings into project plans.
  • Define integration/divestiture milestones, timelines, and success metrics in alignment with Engineering leadership.
  • Lead and facilitate preparation meetings with Subject Matter Experts and review sessions with Senior Leadership to ensure alignment and communication.
  • Manage multiple concurrent projects, prioritizing tasks, allocating resources, tracking progress, and resolving critical blockers.
  • Foster collaboration by building strong relationships with acquired teams and internal SMEs, driving knowledge transfer, best practices, and continuous improvement.

What you need to succeed:

  • 5+ years of experience in technical project management
  • Outstanding communication, interpersonal and negotiation skills, with a proven ability to build to build strong relationships, influence stakeholders, and foster collaboration across diverse teams and levels
  • Ability to manage, communicate, and present at the executive level
  • Exceptional project management skills with the ability to track progress against goals and manage multiple concurrent projects
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and manage multiple priorities effectively
  • Bring proven experience in acquisitions, post-merger integrations, and divestitures within the tech industry, supported by Engineering expertise and certifications such as PMP and Agile.

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.

OpenText's efforts to build an inclusive work environment go beyond simply complying with applicable laws. Our Employment Equity and Diversity Policy provides direction on maintaining a working environment that is inclusive of everyone, regardless of culture, national origin, race, color, gender, gender identification, sexual orientation, family status, age, veteran status, disability, religion, or other basis protected by applicable laws.

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

About OpenText

Software Development
10,000+

OpenText is a world leader in Information Management, helping companies securely capture, govern and exchange information on a global scale. OpenText solves digital business challenges for customers, ranging from small and mid-sized businesses to the largest and most complex organizations in the world. For more information about OpenText (NASDAQ/TSX: OTEX), visit www.opentext.com