Director AI Engineering & Applied AI Platform

OpenText; Cork; On-site; EUR 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenText is seeking a Director for AI Engineering and Applied AI Platform in Cork, Ireland. This role involves building and leading a high-impact AI engineering team while defining and delivering production-ready AI solutions that align with enterprise needs.

The ideal candidate has extensive experience in AI and cloud engineering, with a focus on collaboration, innovation, and driving measurable business impact. OpenText promotes an inclusive and diverse work environment, enhancing career growth for all employees.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in enterprise software or AI, with 5+ years in leadership roles.
• Proven track record in delivering production-grade AI systems.
• Experience in building reusable platforms and frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Build and scale a high-impact AI engineering team.
• Define and deliver reusable, production-grade AI platform capabilities.
• Ensure AI systems are scalable, reliable, and cost-efficient.

Skills

Leadership in AI

Building scalable AI systems

Collaboration with stakeholders

Understanding of enterprise SaaS

Job description

Your Impact

As OpenText accelerates its AI transformation, Ireland is a key strategic R&D investment hub for advanced AI engineering, applied AI platforms, sovereign cloud, cybersecurity, and trusted enterprise innovation. As part of this investment, we’re looking to welcome a Director, AI Engineering and Applied AI Platform (Ireland R&D) to build and lead a high-impact AI engineering capability within our Cork Centre of Excellence. This is a highly visible, build-and-scale leadership role, central to shaping OpenText’s global AI innovation footprint.

You will be responsible for establishing and growing a best-in-class Ireland-based team focused on reusable AI platform capabilities, agentic AI systems, orchestration patterns, evaluation frameworks, and production-grade deployment standards. You will define how trusted enterprise AI is engineered, governed, and scaled across OpenText products and cloud operations. This is not a research-only role – it is about translating AI strategy into real, production-ready capability. You will partner closely with product engineering, cloud operations, security, architecture, legal, compliance, and business leaders to deliver AI solutions that are secure, scalable, and enterprise-ready.

By building reusable platforms, engineering patterns, and strong local capability, you will accelerate AI adoption, improve delivery efficiency, and enable product differentiation across the organization. You will also play a key role in strengthening Ireland as a centre of excellence for trusted enterprise AI development. This role offers broad impact across engineering, product, go-to-market teams, partners, and executive leadership, and is pivotal to advancing OpenText’s innovation agenda.

You’re Great At

• Building & Leading AI Capability: Build and Scale a high-impact AI engineering team in Ireland, establishing Cork as a centre of excellence for enterprise AI.
• Defining & Delivering AI Platform: Own the development of reusable, production-grade AI platform capabilities that drive adoption across products and reduce duplication.
• Advancing Agentic AI & Automation: Lead the development of agentic AI solutions powering enterprise workflows, automation, and intelligent product experiences.
• Ensuring Responsible, Enterprise-Ready AI: Embed governance, evaluation, and responsible AI practices to deliver secure, compliant, and trustworthy systems.
• Driving Production Excellence: Ensure AI systems are scalable, reliable, cost-efficient, and engineered for real-world deployment.
• Championing Innovation & Partnerships: Deliver R&D outcomes (IP, patents, frameworks) and collaborate with Irish universities, research institutions, ecosystem partners and industry bodies to accelerate impact.
• Delivering Business Impact: Align AI initiatives to enterprise clients’ needs and business priorities, driving measurable value, adoption, and competitive advantage.

What You Need To Succeed

• 12+ years in enterprise software, AI, platform, or cloud engineering, with 5+ years in leadership roles.
• Proven track record delivering production-grade AI or software systems at scale.
• Experience building reusable platforms, frameworks, or shared engineering capabilities.
• Strong understanding of modern AI engineering (LLMs, agents, orchestration, evaluation, deployment, lifecycle management).
• Background working with enterprise SaaS, cloud platforms, distributed systems, and APIs.
• Demonstrated ability to build and scale high-performing engineering teams.
• Experience collaborating across product, architecture, security, operations, and business stakeholders.

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.