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Manager, Software Development

Open Text Corp

  • Gaithersburg, MD
  • 5 days ago

    Highlights

    Providing senior people leadership for a distributed team of consultants across USA, including hiring strategy, performance management, goal setting, compensation reviews, leadership development, and succession planning. Hands-on experience with integration platforms, data translation software, and industry communication protocols and data formats (e.g., IBM Sterling, HTTP, SFTP, Web Services, REST APIs, XML, EDI, X12, IDoc, flat files).

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationGaithersburg, MD
    IndustryComputer Software
    Company Size5,000 to 9,999 employees
    Year Founded1991
    Websitehttp://www.opentext.com/

    Description

    YOUR IMPACT

    Work with talented Business Network team members with diverse skillsets, providing solutions for complex customer challenges. You will leverage your interpersonal and leadership skills to develop deep, trusted partnerships with team members and customers.

    WHAT THE ROLE OFFERS

    The Manager, Cloud Services is responsible for setting strategic direction and providing senior leadership to a team of system integration consultants. You will own people leadership, guide resolution of highly complex integration issues, and define and execute strategies for training, processes, and tools used by the team. You will partner with other Systems Integration teams to ensure lean, scalable integration of OpenText processes across the organization.

    This role requires strong senior leadership, executive-level communication, and hands-on EDI project implementation expertise. You must bring deep A2A/B2B experience and demonstrate the ability to motivate, lead, and scale teams through vision, strategic positioning, and mature leadership practices. You are highly driven, delivery-focused, and accountable for defining goals, success metrics, and continuous improvement across the organization. You will actively mentor and coach leaders and consultants to grow talent and organizational capability.

    YOU ARE GREAT AT

    • Providing senior-level consulting services to clients on end-to-end system design requirements supporting trading partner EDI / electronic commerce integrations.
    • Acting as a trusted advisor to client leadership, internal project management, and technical stakeholders.
    • Serving as the escalation and decision point for complex technical challenges, ensuring consistency of integration architecture, standards, and delivery practices.
    • Overseeing quality and governance of project deliverables, setting best practices, reviewing outputs for technical consistency, and approving deliverables prior to client review.
    • Providing senior people leadership for a distributed team of consultants across USA, including hiring strategy, performance management, goal setting, compensation reviews, leadership development, and succession planning.
    • Championing and institutionalizing continuous improvement initiatives across tools, processes, and delivery models.
    • Reporting to senior and executive leadership with clear insights into performance, risks, and strategic opportunities.
    • Ensuring ongoing professional growth, engagement, and retention of top consulting talent.
    • Maintaining and evolving deep knowledge of current and future OpenText products and integration platforms.
    • Guiding the team in adopting emerging technologies, particularly Artificial Intelligence, and developing strategies to integrate them effectively into existing processes.

    WHAT IT TAKES TO SUCCEED

    • Proven senior leadership capabilities, including developing leaders, communicating vision, and inspiring high-performing teams.
    • Strong executive presence with the ability to build rapport and credibility quickly at all levels.
    • Excellent judgment with strong Systems Integration and Technical / Business acumen, and the ability to assess people, processes, and platforms at scale. Hands-on experience with integration platforms, data translation software, and industry communication protocols and data formats (e.g., IBM Sterling, HTTP, SFTP, Web Services, REST APIs, XML, EDI, X12, IDoc, flat files).
    • Strong understanding of European e-Invoicing mandates.
    • Minimum of 7+ years of customer-facing experience.
    • Demonstrated experience leading and scaling teams of consultants and technical professionals.
    • Additional Spanish, Portuguese or European language skills are a plus.

    ONE LAST THING

    OpenText is more than a global technology leader-we are a values-driven community built on trust, accountability, and innovation. Here, ownership matters, collaboration is essential, and your work makes a real impact. Join us to help shape the future of information management while building a career where your voice is heard and your contributions truly matter.

    About Company

    Who We Are

    OpenText is the leader in Enterprise Information Management (EIM).
    Our EIM products enable businesses to grow faster, lower operational costs, and reduce information governance and security risks by improving business insight, impact and process speed.

    Our Promise to our Customers

    OpenText strives to...

    • enrich the way people use information
    • foster innovation
    • be trusted in our relationships
    • be committed to excellence in all that we do
    • work with our stakeholders, demonstrating honesty and passion towards common goals

    Working at OpenText

    There are several reasons for our top employer awards. Here are a few:

    We’re a world class company.

    At OpenText, we offer the stability of a blue chip and the spirit of a start-up.

    OpenText launched in 1991 as a small spin-off company from the University of Waterloo in Canada. Twenty-two years later, we’re a truly global company with more than 8200 employees in over 140 offices around the world.

    Working for OpenText means working for a truly global, world-class company with a solid customer base, stable cash flow, and the resources to execute well. We’ve grown to $1.3B annual revenue in 2013. And, most impressive has been our consistent upward growth, steered by an experienced leadership team.

    We have an entrepreneurial culture.

    While we’re big in many ways, we’ve maintained an entrepreneurial culture common to many technology company “start-ups”. We drive hard to achieve excellence. We value innovation, creativity, and collaboration.We welcome new opportunities and learn to pivot. It’s all about being smart, fast, and responsive to our customers.

    Our values direct us.

    Our values ensure we deliver on our mission and vision every day. Our values guide our actions with all of our stakeholders. It’s the OpenText way.

    • Customer: We need to obsess over our customers and ensure they are wildly successful.
    • Trust: Our customers entrust us with their most competitive information, we need to be their most trusted partner
    • Excellence: What we do, we do well. The highest form of excellence is mastery
    • Innovation: What we create, we do purposefully to impact the world.
    • Best Place to Work: We spend far too much time at work for it not to drive personal meaning. We need to leverage the collective genius and have the courage to shape a better future. Nothing is off the table.

    Diversity makes us strong.

    At OpenText, we serve customers of many cultures in many different countries.

    We embrace diversity because we believe the best products, solutions, and customer service results from a workplace in which varied viewpoints are welcomed and encouraged. The wide-ranging backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives of our employees are a powerful competitive advantage and crucial to our continued business success.

    We are committed to hiring and maintaining a diverse workforce. We are also committed to fostering an environment - one in which the best people can do their best work and reach their full potential. This outcome is achieved in a work environment characterized by respect for lifestyle, cultural, and ethnic differences.

    We have you covered.

    We take care of our employees. We offer a generous compensation and benefits plan that is competitive to your position, responsibilities, and region of the world.

    We’re an equal opportunity employer.

    OpenText is an equal opportunity employer that recruits and hires world-class talent regardless of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, marital status, sex, age, veteran status, or sexual orientation.

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