Lead Cloud Applications Consultant - xECM

OpenText; North Sydney Council; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenText is seeking a Lead Cloud Applications Consultant to provide technical leadership for strategic OpenText Cloud customers. You will own the technical success journey, build trusted plans, and align architectural priorities with business outcomes.

You will collaborate with Cloud Operations, Product, Engineering, and Customer Success to drive value and proactively mitigate risks. You will guide customers through upgrades, migrations, and lifecycle events, while acting as a trusted advisor

Qualifications

• Experience in technical consulting or cloud services with customer-facing roles.
• Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures and deployment models.
• Proven ability to guide customers through complex lifecycle events.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end technical success journey for strategic cloud customers.
• Develop customer-specific technical success plans aligned to outcomes.
• Lead technical governance, actions, and risk mitigation with stakeholders.
• Coordinate cross-functional OpenText teams to drive priority outcomes.
• Provide expert guidance during incidents and complex escalations.
• Translate root cause analyses into preventive actions and knowledge.
• Drive upgrades, migrations, and capacity planning across cloud lifecycles.

Skills

Technical leadership

Cloud strategy

Stakeholder management

Executive communication

Cloud governance

Risk management

Customer facing

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT

Relevant cloud certs (optional)

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Helm

SQL

Windows/Linux

Job description

Opentext - The Information CompanyOpenText 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.

The Opportunity

The OpenText Cloud Technical Success Services Team is seeking a Lead Cloud Applications Consultant to provide technical leadership for a portfolio of highly strategic OpenText Cloud customers. This is a consultative, customer-facing role focused on building trusted relationships, understanding each customer's business and technical priorities, and proactively guiding them toward successful outcomes throughout their cloud lifecycle.

As the technical leader on the account, you will develop a deep understanding of the customer's hosted environment, applications, operational priorities, and risk profile. You will translate that understanding into a clear technical success plan, lead technical governance, coordinate the right OpenText stakeholders, and ensure the customer experiences a connected and accountable partnership.

You will act as the customer's trusted advisor and primary technical liaison into OpenText, bringing together Cloud Operations, Product, Engineering, Professional Services, Customer Success, and other teams to drive priorities, manage risk, strengthen platform health, and accelerate value realization.

What You Will Own

• Own the end-to-end technical success journey for assigned strategic cloud customers, from onboarding and stabilization through adoption, optimization, renewal readiness, and ongoing growth.
• Establish and maintain a customer-specific technical success plan aligned to business outcomes, architectural priorities, operational health, service commitments, and lifecycle milestones.
• Serve as the primary technical advisor on the account, providing informed recommendations, clear guidance, and leadership across complex cloud application and platform matters.
• Build trusted relationships with customer technical leaders and stakeholders through proactive communication, transparency, accountability, and a strong understanding of their priorities.
• Act as the customer’s liaison into OpenText, orchestrating cross-functional teams and ensuring technical issues, risks, dependencies, and commitments have clear ownership and momentum.
• Lead recurring technical governance and service reviews, providing meaningful insights into platform health, trends, risks, major initiatives, and recommended actions.
• Proactively identify technical, operational, and lifecycle risks before they affect customer outcomes, and coordinate mitigation plans with the customer and internal teams.
• Provide technical leadership during critical incidents and complex escalations, ensuring effective stakeholder coordination, timely communication, sound technical direction, and disciplined follow-through.
• Review Root Cause Analyses for technical accuracy, clarity, and completeness, and help translate findings into preventive actions and customer-relevant outcomes.
• Guide customers through upgrades, migrations, releases, changes, capacity considerations, resilience planning, and other key events across their cloud lifecycle.
• Champion customer priorities internally, helping OpenText teams understand business impact, urgency, and the technical context required to make informed decisions.
• Develop deep expertise in one or more OpenText solutions or technical domains and use that expertise to strengthen customer outcomes and team capability.
• Create and deliver reusable knowledge, technical guidance, and best practices that improve consistency, readiness, and scale across the broader Technical Success organization.

You Are Great At

• Leading strategic technical conversations with customers and translating complex information into clear decisions, actions, and business-relevant outcomes.
• Building credibility with technical and executive stakeholders through strong judgment, ownership, communication, and follow-through.
• Understanding enterprise cloud environments holistically, including applications, infrastructure, integrations, databases, networks, security considerations, and operational dependencies.
• Connecting customer goals to practical technical roadmaps, success plans, governance mechanisms, and measurable lifecycle outcomes.
• Navigating ambiguity and coordinating multiple teams without losing accountability, urgency, and focus on the customer experience.
• Identifying patterns, risks, and improvement opportunities through operational insights, service trends, and knowledge of the customer environment.
• Influencing across organizational boundaries and creating alignment among customers, Product, Engineering, Cloud Operations, Professional Services, and Customer Success.
• Demonstrating empathy and composure while maintaining a consultative, outcome-focused approach during high-impact situations.

What It Takes

Experience: A minimum of 5–7 years of experience in technical consulting, technical account management, cloud services, enterprise application management, or a comparable customer-facing technology role.

Customer Leadership: Demonstrated experience owning strategic customer relationships, leading technical governance, managing complex stakeholder environments, and guiding customers through critical lifecycle events.

Technical Foundation: Experience with enterprise multi-tiered applications and supporting technologies, including Windows and UNIX administration, TCP/IP networking, relational databases such as Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle, or MySQL, and web or application servers such as IIS, Apache, or Tomcat.

Cloud-Native Technologies: Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm, with the curiosity and willingness to continue developing cloud-native expertise.

Service Management: Experience operating within an ITIL-based service delivery model and an understanding of incident, problem, change, availability, capacity, and service-level management.

Automation and Scripting: Working knowledge of SQL and scripting or programming technologies such as shell, batch, Java, JavaScript, or Python is an asset.

OpenText Experience: Experience with OpenText products such as Content Suite or SuccessFactors is an asset.

Communication: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage technical practitioners, customer leaders, and internal stakeholders effectively.

Personal Attributes: A consultative mindset, strong ownership, sound judgment, curiosity, patience, adaptability, and a commitment to delivering exceptional customer outcomes in a dynamic environment.

Academic

University or college degree in a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.

Work Environment

General office environment. Participation in an on-call rotation is required to provide leadership for major incidents and support scheduled activities outside normal business hours. Additional work outside standard hours may be required based on customer priorities, critical events, project schedules, system reliability issues, deadlines, or time-zone differences.

Success in This Role

• Strategic customers view you as a trusted technical advisor who understands their environment, priorities, and business impact.
• Customer risks and lifecycle needs are identified early, governed clearly, and progressed with accountable ownership.
• Cross-functional OpenText teams remain aligned around customer outcomes, commitments, and technical priorities.
• Customers experience stronger platform health, more effective lifecycle planning, and greater confidence in their OpenText Cloud partnership.

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 at [e-mail]. Our proactive approach fosters collaboration, innovation, and personal growth, enriching OpenText's vibrant workplace.