Sr. Director, Software Engineering

OPENTEXT - THE INFORMATION COMPANY

OpenText 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.

AI-First. Future-Driven. Human-Centered.

At OpenText, 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.

As a global leader in secure information management, OpenText empowers businesses to stay ahead of the ever-evolving cyber threats. Our Cybersecurity Enterprise portfolio is formidable, offering innovative solutions that safeguard organizations from malicious attacks, data breaches, and cyber vulnerabilities. By joining our team, you'll be at the forefront of developing and implementing state-of-the-art security technologies, protecting critical assets and sensitive information for clients worldwide.

Your Impact:

The Mission: To scale a high-throughput, intelligent analytics platform capable of contextualizing billions of daily events, turning raw logs and behaviour analytics into actionable mitigation strategies before exploitation occurs.

As the threat landscape evolves at an unprecedented, machine-speed velocity, our defensive architectures must move faster. We are seeking a visionary, execution-oriented Senior Director of Development for Cybersecurity Security Analytics to lead the next generation of our enterprise detection, response, and telemetry analysis platforms.

In this high-impact executive role, you will own the architectural strategy, product delivery, and engineering execution for our core Security Analytics engine. You will lead a world-class, cross-geographical engineering organization, leveraging modern AI/ML technologies to redefine how enterprise telemetry is ingested, analyzed, and automated. This role demands a unique combination of elite technical leadership, strategic business acumen, and a deep understanding of how to build AI-driven security products while utilizing AI to accelerate the software development lifecycle (SDLC) itself.

What the role offers:

Strategic Vision & Roadmap Execution

• Partner seamlessly with executive leadership (CTO, CISO, VP of Product) to translate corporate market strategy into an actionable, multi-year engineering vision and technical roadmap.


• Balance long-term foundational architecture investments with short-term commercial execution requirements, ensuring predictable, high-quality feature delivery.


• Drive innovation within SIEM, SOAR, and behavioral analytics frameworks to maintain a competitive edge against emerging autonomous threat vectors.

Global Engineering Leadership & Agile Scaling

• Direct and scale a multi-tier, cross-geographical engineering organization across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific, fostering a culture of extreme ownership, high collaboration, and engineering excellence.


• Optimize Agile/Scrum development methodologies across distributed teams, removing friction from continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to achieve rapid release cycles.


• Mentor and develop engineering managers, architects, and principal engineers, establishing robust technical leadership pipelines.

AI Innovation & SDLC Acceleration

• Lead the design and implementation of AI/ML models natively into security analytics solutions, moving beyond signature-based detection into automated contextual reasoning, anomaly isolation, and proactive threat hunting.


• Pioneer the integration of Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) into the development lifecycle to accelerate code generation, automate regression testing, and streamline vulnerability remediation, safely driving down software time-to-market.

Customer Engagement & Market Alignment

• Act as a key technical executive champion for marquee enterprise customers, Advisory Boards, and strategic partners, converting sophisticated user feedback into platform capabilities.


• Collaborate with product management to deeply understand user personas (SOC Analysts, Incident Responders, CISOs) to design intuitive, high-efficiency analytics workflows.

What you need to succeed:

• 12+ years of progressive software engineering experience, with a minimum of 5+ years in a senior leadership role (Director or above) directly managing complex enterprise security products.


• Deep architectural understanding of high-scale data ingestion, streaming analytics (e.g., Kafka, Flink), log management, SIEM, SOAR, or cloud-native security platforms.


• Proven success managing and scaling large (50+ engineers), cross-functional, multi-site development teams with an inclusive, high-performance operating model.


• Practical knowledge of data science fundamentals, neural networks, or LLM orchestration frameworks, with explicit experience launching AI-assisted security features or workflow automation.


• Elite command of Agile principles, modern DevSecOps frameworks, microservices architectures, and secure coding practices.


• Superior communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate complex technical trade-offs to non-technical executive board members, while maintaining deep credibility with staff engineers.


• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Cyber Security, Data Science, or a related technical discipline.

PREFERRED ATTRIBUTES

• Prior experience scaling enterprise ARR through critical platform transitions (e.g., legacy on-prem log infrastructure to cloud-native AI-driven detection).


• Active involvement in the cybersecurity or open-source community, staying ahead of disruptive security developments and emerging defensive paradigms.

One last thing:

OpenText is more than a corporation—it’s a global community built on trust, character, and purpose. Here, we act ethically, care deeply about people, and always put our customers first. We help teams succeed through collaboration, tackle challenges with resilience, and innovate with intention.

Join us on our mission to drive positive change through privacy, technology, and teamwork. At OpenText, we don’t just have a culture—we live our values. Choose us because you want to be part of a company that empowers you to make a meaningful impact.

OpenText's commitment to diversity and inclusion surpasses legal requirements, evident in our Equal Employment Opportunity Statement of Policy which promotes a respectful and empowering environment for employees of all backgrounds, culture, national origin, race, color, gender, gender identification, sexual orientation, family status, age, veteran status, disability, religion, or other basis protected by applicable laws.

If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please submit a ticket at Ask HR. Our proactive approach fosters collaboration, innovation, and personal growth, enriching OpenText's vibrant workplace.

Compensation: At OpenText, we offer a thoughtfully designed benefits package that supports your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing. As you move through the hiring process, we’re happy to provide more details about our compensation programs, including variable and commission compensation opportunities for eligible roles, vacation entitlement, and paid time off.

AI Usage Disclosure: As part of our commitment to transparency, we use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to assist in various stages of our recruitment process, including resume screening, candidate matching, interview scheduling, and communications. These tools are designed to improve efficiency, reduce bias, and enhance candidate experience. All decisions regarding hiring are made by qualified human professionals, and we continuously monitor our AI systems to ensure fairness and compliance with applicable regulations.