Senior Documentum Platform Architect

Mississippi Power Co; Birmingham (AL); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Southern Company Services in Birmingham, AL seeks a Sr. Documentum Architect to lead the enterprise OpenText Documentum environment, directing the team and owning platform architecture, security, lifecycle management, and post-migration container operations.

The role drives upgrades, validation, and integration efforts, partnering with business partners to translate needs into a practical technical roadmap and delivering secure, scalable solutions.

Qualifications

• Significant experience designing, developing, administering, supporting, and upgrading enterprise OpenText Documentum solutions.
• Experience serving as a technical lead or architect for an enterprise application platform.
• Experience with Linux-based enterprise application environments and Oracle.

Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day technical leadership for the Documentum team, including support ticket resolution, technical direction, work planning, design decisions, issue escalation, mentoring, and knowledge transfer.
• Own the end-to-end architecture and technical health of the enterprise Documentum platform across development, test, production, and disaster recovery environments.
• Take ownership of supporting, maintaining, troubleshooting, and modernizing all Documentum customizations, integrations, workflows, jobs, utilities, and extensions.
• Enforce standards for Documentum development, configuration, source control, testing, deployment, documentation, monitoring, and production support.
• Lead the migration of Documentum components from Linux to containers, including architecture, configuration, deployment, testing, operational readiness, and support transition.
• Own the ongoing container operating model after migration, including vendor image updates, Helm and deployment configuration, security remediation, monitoring, capacity, resiliency, patching, upgrades, and rollback planning.
• Lead investigation and resolution of complex production issues that span Documentum, custom code, Java and application servers, Linux, containers, Oracle, storage, identity, network services, and third-party products.
• Partner with business stakeholders and product owners to understand needs, evaluate requests, define requirements, assess options, and prioritize enhancements, maintenance, and lifecycle investments.
• Translate business priorities into a practical technical roadmap and lead the design, estimation, implementation, testing, release, and support of approved enhancements and upgrades.
• Coordinate with application developers, infrastructure teams, cybersecurity, database administrators, storage teams, enterprise architects, vendors, and business partners to deliver secure and supportable solutions.
• Plan and lead Documentum upgrades, patches, migrations, disaster recovery exercises, performance improvements, and adoption of new platform capabilities.
• Perform architecture, design, code, and implementation reviews and ensure technical risks, dependencies, and support impacts are understood before production deployment.
• Maintain current platform, integration, customization, recovery, and operational documentation.
• Serve as the primary technical contact with OpenText and other vendors for product support, compatibility, defects, security findings, and product direction.
• Participate in on-call support and planned maintenance activities as needed.

Skills

Documentum architecture

OpenText Documentum

Linux to containers migration

Java

Tomcat

REST services

Oracle

Linux shell scripting

Git

CI/CD automation

Security remediation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Information Systems/Engineering

Tools

OpenText Documentum tools: Content Server, D2, Smart View, Documentum Administrator, D2 REST, DFS, xPlore, OTDS, DFC

Migration tools

OpenShift/Kubernetes

Helm

YAML

Container registries

Job description

Southern Company Services in Birmingham, AL seeks a Sr. Documentum Architect to lead the enterprise OpenText Documentum environment, directing the team and owning platform architecture, security, lifecycle management, and post-migration container operations.

The role drives upgrades, validation, and integration efforts, partnering with business partners to translate needs into a practical technical roadmap and delivering secure, scalable solutions.