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Responsibilities
- Lead architecture for complex enterprise AI solutions, including multi-agent systems spanning applications, services, and deployment environments.
- Define approaches for grounded context, agent harnesses, orchestration, delegation, state management, failure recovery, and human oversight.
- Build proofs of concept and reference implementations to investigate difficult problems and establish technical direction.
- Architect shared platform primitives for evaluation, versioning, deployment, observability, governance, and continuous improvement.
- Identify common product needs and define reusable services and interfaces while preserving application flexibility.
- Evaluate models, frameworks, and emerging patterns and guide build-or-adopt decisions across quality, latency, cost, security, and operational complexity.
- Align architects and product leaders through design documents, diagrams, demonstrations, and technical debate.
- Mentor technical talent and guide adoption of shared architecture and capabilities across business units.
Requirements
- 12+ years of software engineering and architecture experience, including leadership of complex application initiatives.
- Recent hands-on experience architecting and delivering AI applications using Java and Python ecosystems.
- Hands-on depth with relevant agent frameworks, including LangChain/LangGraph and Google ADK, plus sound judgment among alternatives.
- Experience with agent patterns including context assembly, memory, harness design, multi-agent coordination, tool integration, MCP, and A2A.
- Understanding of model capabilities, limitations, economics, model selection, and routing strategies.
- Experience using evaluations and production evidence to diagnose agent failures and guide changes.
- Architectural understanding of agent and tool permissions, untrusted inputs, data boundaries, distributed systems, security, multi-tenancy, and lifecycle design.
- Experience with enterprise integration and cloud, private, or customer-managed deployment requirements is particularly valuable.
- Evidence of establishing architecture or shared capabilities adopted by multiple teams and resolving production challenges.
- Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Benefits
- Office-based position in Richmond Hill or Waterloo, Ontario.
- OpenText offers a benefits package supporting physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing, with vacation entitlement and paid time off.
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About OpenText
OpenText builds enterprise information management software and cloud services spanning content services, customer communications, B2B/EDI integration, eDiscovery, and cybersecurity. It sells licenses, subscriptions, and managed services to large enterprises and governments, with offerings available on-premises and in the cloud. Founded in 1991 and headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, OpenText (NASDAQ/TSX: OTEX) has expanded through major acquisitions, including Micro Focus (2023) and Documentum (2017).