Manager, Software Development

OPENTEXT - THE INFORMATION COMPANYOpenText is a global leader in information management, where innovation, creativity, and collaboration are the key components of our corporate culture. As a member of our team, you will have the opportunity to partner with the most highly regarded companies in the world, tackle complex issues, and contribute to projects that shape the future of digital transformation.

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At Open Text, AI is at the heart of everything we do—powering innovation, transforming work, and empowering digital knowledge workers. We are hiring talent AI can't replace to help us shape the future of information management. Join us.

The Capture Group of Open Text Enterprise Content Management platforms division is focusing on the development and maintenance of the Capture product line. The Capture technology transforms electronic and paper documents into application-ready information providing a flexible, end-to-end capture solution that includes document capture, document classification, data extraction, information validation, and delivery to backend system.

Your Impact:

You will be responsible for leading a multiple local agile development teams that will evolve the current Capture Product portfolio to the next-generation Capture platform, supporting traditional capture technologies and AI.You will provide technical and project leadership in delivering product components and product versions during the whole software lifecycle. You will be responsible for People management, product delivery, innovation, managing risks and ongoing maintenance.

This position requires strong leadership, excellent communication, and “hands-on” product development skills. You must have strong technical background, and proficient in motivating and leading the team, through vision, strategic positioning, product delivery. You must be highly energetic and passionate about product development (C#, C++ and Angular JS), track performance and show continuous improvement. You will provide mentoring and coaching for the team to develop an iterative, continuous approach to feature delivery.

What the role offers:

As a Manager, Software Development, you will:

Help a team achieve sprint/release goals while partnering with the Product Manager on overall business goals

Work with cross-functional teams to ensure plans & resources are coordinated, and product deliverables are well defined, scoped and achieved

Deliver on time, budget and agreed quality standards

Facilitate planning, daily stand-ups and retrospectives

Provide guidance, technical feedback and ensure release goal is achieved

Provide visibility to team impediments/risks and helps eliminate them Ensure appropriate and timely reporting

Manage communication cross-functionally and escalate promptly when issues arise

Ensure Team development and career progression

Align with internal development process and improve the in-house methodology and delivery processes

Provide guidance, technical feedback and ensure product delivery success

Help the team to be innovative and improve things

Be part of organization-wide initiatives and drive the change

What you need to succeed:

Minimum MS CS or equivalent experience
10+ years of industry engineering experience, with at least 4 years in a leadership role.

Experience with .NET or Java, modern open source projects, dev tools required.

Extensive experience programming/building in Unix architecture.

Strong background in containerization projects and containers technologies (Kubernetes, Docker)
Strong background in Client/server architecture

Experience utilizing Agile development methodologies (or similar) in practice

Ability to recruit, build and lead a strong team in a fast-paced environment through evolution,…