Lead Cloud Applications Consultant

OpenText; Southwestern Ontario; On-site; CAD 155,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenText, The Information Company, is seeking a Lead Cloud Applications Consultant to provide technical leadership for a portfolio of strategic cloud customers. You will build trusted relationships, understand business and technical priorities, and guide customers toward successful cloud outcomes throughout their lifecycle.

In this role you will translate complex environments into actionable success plans, lead governance with OpenText stakeholders, and coordinate teams to strengthen platform

Qualifications

• Experience in technical consulting or a customer-facing technology role.
• Hands-on knowledge of cloud-native tech (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm).
• Familiar with ITIL-based service management.
• Strong written and verbal communication; bilingual English/French is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical governance and coordinate cross-functional teams.
• Advise customers with strategic technical decisions and roadmaps.
• Ensure platform health, risk management, and incident response.
• Translate customer needs into actionable technical success plans.
• Drive upgrades, migrations, releases, and capacity planning.
• Develop reusable guidance and best practices for the wider team.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Stakeholder management

Cloud environments

Roadmap alignment

Ambiguity navigation

Risk identification

Cross-functional influence

Empathy and composure

Education

University degree or equivalent

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Helm

SQL Server

PostgreSQL

Oracle

MySQL

IIS

Apache

Tomcat

Job description

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

YOUR IMPACT

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 The Role Offers

• 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 To Succeed

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 such as Content Suite, Exstream, 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. Language Skills: Bilingual capability in English and French is an asset. Personal Attributes: A consultative mindset, strong ownership, sound judgment, curiosity, patience, adaptability, and a commitment to delivering exceptional customer outcomes in a dynamic environment. University or college degree in a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience. 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.

• 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.

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 commitment to diversity and inclusion surpasses legal requirements, evident in our Equal Employment Opportunity Statement of Policy which promotes a respectful and empowering environment for employees of all backgrounds, 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 submit a ticket at Ask HR. Our proactive approach fosters collaboration, innovation, and personal growth, enriching OpenText's vibrant workplace.

Compensation: At OpenText, we offer a thoughtfully designed benefits package that supports your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing. As you move through the hiring process, we’re happy to provide more details about our compensation programs, including variable and commission compensation opportunities for eligible roles, vacation entitlement, and paid time off.

Salary Range: $110,960- $160,960; Depending on the candidate’s education, experience, skills, geographical location, and alignment with internal equity and external market, actual salary may vary and be higher or lower than the range posted.

As part of our commitment to transparency, we use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to assist in various stages of our recruitment process, including resume screening, candidate matching, interview scheduling, and communications. These tools are designed to improve efficiency, reduce bias, and enhance candidate experience. All decisions regarding hiring are made by qualified human professionals, and we continuously monitor our AI systems to ensure fairness and compliance with applicable regulations.