VP, Data Center Portfolio & Transformation

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Open Text is a global leader in secure information management for AI, helping organizations unlock the value of information by connecting data, people, and processes while embedding security, governance, and compliance throughout the information lifecycle.

As Open Text advances its Cloud and AI strategy, its infrastructure must evolve to support a more agile, secure, resilient, automated, and economically optimized operating model.

Open Text is seeking a transformational technology executive to serve as Vice President, Global Data Center Portfolio & Transformation.

This leader will be the single accountable executive for the strategy, optimization, and transformation of Open Text's global data center portfolio, leading a multi-year effort to significantly reduce the physical footprint while creating a modern infrastructure foundation for the future.

The mandate includes transforming the current portfolio of approximately 63 data center sites toward a future-state footprint of approximately 10 strategic locations, while determining the optimal placement of workloads across retained facilities, colocation environments, and hyperscale cloud platforms.

The transformation will balance two complementary strategies:

• Consolidate and modernize approximately 50% of workloads into a smaller, standardized physical estate.
• Migrate approximately 50% of workloads toward hyperscaler platforms, using rehosting, replatforming, containerization, modernization, or retirement based on workload complexity, criticality, economics, security, regulatory requirements, and change tolerance.

The VP will partner closely with Infrastructure, Enterprise Architecture, Product Engineering, Security, Finance, Procurement, Corporate Development, Facilities, and other executive stakeholders.

• Define and execute Open Text'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 Open Text'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 Open Text's most strategic transformation initiatives.

• 15+ years of progressive leadership…