Documentum Architect, SR
Southern Company1 day ago
Birmingham, AL, USASenior
Responsibilities
- Provide day-to-day technical leadership, mentoring, planning, design direction, escalation support, and knowledge transfer for the Documentum team.
- Own the end-to-end architecture, technical health, supportability, and lifecycle management of the enterprise Documentum platform across all environments.
- Support, troubleshoot, maintain, and modernize Documentum customizations, integrations, workflows, jobs, utilities, and extensions.
- Lead the migration of Documentum components to Linux and container-based deployment, including architecture, configuration, testing, operational readiness, and transition to support.
- Own the container operating model, including image updates, Helm and deployment configuration, security remediation, monitoring, capacity, resiliency, patching, upgrades, and rollback planning.
- Investigate and resolve complex production issues spanning Documentum, custom code, Java application servers, Linux, containers, Oracle, storage, identity, network services, and third-party products.
- Partner with business stakeholders and product owners to define requirements, prioritize enhancements, assess options, and create technical roadmaps.
- Lead the design, estimation, implementation, testing, release, and support of approved enhancements and upgrades.
- Coordinate with application developers, infrastructure, cybersecurity, database, storage, architecture, vendor, and business teams to deliver secure and supportable solutions.
- Lead upgrades, patches, migrations, disaster recovery exercises, performance improvements, architecture reviews, code reviews, implementation reviews, and production support.
- Maintain platform, integration, customization, recovery, and operational documentation and serve as the primary technical contact with OpenText and other vendors.
- Participate in on-call support and planned maintenance activities as needed.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field is preferred, with equivalent relevant education and experience potentially considered under company guidelines.
- Significant experience designing, developing, administering, supporting, and upgrading enterprise OpenText Documentum solutions.
- Experience serving as a technical lead or architect for an enterprise application platform and directing the technical work of others.
- Experience owning and supporting custom enterprise applications, integrations, workflows, batch jobs, and platform extensions.
- Experience with Linux-based enterprise application environments and relational databases, preferably Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Oracle.
- Experience partnering with business stakeholders to prioritize work, define requirements, evaluate solutions, and deliver enhancements and upgrades.
- Experience leading complex troubleshooting and coordinating resolution across multiple technical teams and vendors.
- Deep knowledge of Documentum architecture, repositories, security, content storage, indexing, rendition, workflows, jobs, and integration patterns.
- Knowledge of Documentum technologies including Content Server, D2, Smart View, Documentum Administrator, D2 REST, DFS, xPlore, OTDS, DFC, and migration tools.
- Knowledge of container platforms and practices, preferably Red Hat OpenShift or Kubernetes, including Helm, YAML, registries, secrets, persistent storage, resource management, image scanning, and deployment promotion.
- Working knowledge of Java, Tomcat or comparable application servers, REST services, SQL, Oracle, Linux shell scripting, Git, and automated deployment or testing practices.
- Ability to set technical direction, make architecture decisions, communicate complex topics, manage priorities, raise risks, drive decisions, and follow work through production stabilization.
- Preferred qualifications include recent OpenText Documentum modernization experience, hands-on Linux and OpenShift or Kubernetes migrations, production container support, D2 customizations, DFC or Java custom code, REST integrations, workflow solutions, migration utilities, PDF rendition products, technical roadmaps, and automation with Bash, Python, PowerShell, CI/CD tools, or infrastructure-as-code practices.
Benefits
- Participation in an on-call rotation and planned work outside normal business hours may be required.
- Occasional travel may be required based on business needs.
About Southern Company
Southern Company is an investor-owned utility holding company headquartered in Atlanta and traded on the NYSE (SO). Through subsidiaries it provides electric service in Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi and natural gas distribution in Georgia, Illinois, Tennessee, and Virginia, serving about 9 million customers. Its portfolio spans regulated utilities and competitive generation (Southern Power), with energy from natural gas, renewables, and nuclear (including Vogtle units in Georgia).