Senior Documentum Platform Architect

Southern Company; Birmingham (AL); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Southern Company Services in Birmingham, AL, seeks a Senior Documentum Architect to lead the enterprise OpenText Documentum environment. You will direct the Documentum technical team, own platform architecture, and ensure supportability of customizations, integrations, and infrastructure while migrating to Linux and container-based deployment.

You will partner with business stakeholders to prioritize enhancements, plan upgrades, and drive secure, scalable solutions across development, test,

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 and directing the technical work of others.
• Experience owning and supporting custom enterprise applications, integrations, workflows, batch jobs, and platform extensions.
• Experience with Linux-based enterprise application environments and relational databases, preferably Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Oracle.
• Experience leading complex troubleshooting and coordinating resolution across multiple technical teams and vendors.

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.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field

Tools

OpenShift

Kubernetes

D2

Job description

Southern Company Services in Birmingham, AL, seeks a Senior Documentum Architect to lead the enterprise OpenText Documentum environment. You will direct the Documentum technical team, own platform architecture, and ensure supportability of customizations, integrations, and infrastructure while migrating to Linux and container-based deployment.

You will partner with business stakeholders to prioritize enhancements, plan upgrades, and drive secure, scalable solutions across development, test,