VP, Global Data Center Transformation & Hybrid Cloud

OpenText; Mississauga; On-site; CAD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenText is seeking a transformational technology executive to serve as Vice President, Global Data Center Portfolio & Transformation. This leader will drive consolidation, modernization, and cloud adoption across a global footprint of data centers, with a multi-year plan to reduce sites from ~63 to ~10 and optimize workload placement between on-premises, colocation, and hyperscale cloud platforms.

The role partners with Infrastructure, Enterprise Architecture, Product Engineering, Security, and

Qualifications

• 15+ years of progressive leadership experience across global data center infrastructure, cloud transformation, technology operations, or related enterprise technology environments.
• Proven experience leading large-scale data center consolidation, modernization, migration, and site-exit programs.
• Experience managing complex environments spanning data centers, colocation, private cloud, and hyperscale cloud.
• Strong financial and commercial acumen, including ownership of significant capital and operating budgets.
• Experience developing and executing multi-year technology transformation strategies with measurable business outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute OpenText's global data center portfolio strategy, driving consolidation, modernization, site optimization, and cloud adoption across owned, leased, colocation, private cloud, and hyperscale environments.
• Lead a large-scale infrastructure transformation program, reducing complexity and creating a more standardized, automated, secure, resilient, and cost-effective operating model.
• Establish workload placement and migration strategies, determining the optimal path for workloads across on-premises, colocation, and cloud platforms through modernization, migration, or retirement.
• Partner with Infrastructure, Enterprise Architecture, Product Engineering, and Cloud teams to accelerate hybrid cloud transformation and support OpenText's Cloud and AI strategy.
• Own global capacity planning and infrastructure investment decisions across facilities, compute, storage, network, power, and cooling while optimizing total cost of ownership.
• Develop business cases, financial models, and multi-year roadmaps that align infrastructure investments with growth, modernization, M&A activity, and technology lifecycle strategies.
• Collaborate with Security, Risk, and Compliance teams to ensure infrastructure decisions meet security, resilience, privacy, regulatory, and data sovereignty requirements.
• Support acquisition integrations and divestitures by establishing scalable and repeatable infrastructure integration and separation strategies. Influence executive stakeholders and drive governance, risk management, and performance reporting for one of OpenText's most strategic transformation initiatives.

Job description

OpenText is seeking a transformational technology executive to serve as Vice President, Global Data Center Portfolio & Transformation. This leader will drive consolidation, modernization, and cloud adoption across a global footprint of data centers, with a multi-year plan to reduce sites from ~63 to ~10 and optimize workload placement between on-premises, colocation, and hyperscale cloud platforms.

The role partners with Infrastructure, Enterprise Architecture, Product Engineering, Security, and