About the role
Hiring Manager: Lev Dranikov Talent Acquisition Advisor: Sarah Dinneen Job Code Level: DAM3 Refer Your Friends! 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're hiring talent that AI can't replace to help us shape the future of information management. Join us. Your Impact: As OpenText accelerates its AI transformation, Ireland is a key strategic R&D investment hub for advanced AI engineering, applied AI platforms, sovereign cloud, cybersecurity, and trusted enterprise innovation. As part of this investment, we’re looking to welcome a Director, AI Engineering and Applied AI Platform (Ireland R&D) to build and lead a high-impact AI engineering capability within our Cork Centre of Excellence. This is a highly visible, build-and-scale leadership role, central to shaping OpenText’s global AI innovation footprint. You will be responsible for establishing and growing a best-in-class Ireland-based team focused on reusable AI platform capabilities, agentic AI systems, orchestration patterns, evaluation frameworks, and production-grade deployment standards. You will define how trusted enterprise AI is engineered, governed, and scaled across OpenText products and cloud operations. This is not a research-only role - it is about translating AI strategy into real, production-ready capability. You will partner closely with product engineering, cloud operations, security, architecture, legal, compliance, and business leaders to deliver AI solutions that are secure, scalable, and enterprise-ready. By building reusable platforms, engineering patterns, and strong local capability, you will accelerate AI adoption, improve delivery efficiency, and enable product differentiation across the organization. You will also play a key role in strengthening Ireland as a centre of excellence for trusted enterprise AI development. This role offers broad impact across engineering, product, go-to-market teams, partners, and executive leadership, and is pivotal to advancing OpenText’s innovation agenda. You’re great at: Building & Leading AI Capability: Build and Scale a high-impact AI engineering team in Ireland, establishing Cork as a centre of excellence for enterprise AI. Defining & Delivering AI Platform: Own the development of reusable, production-grade AI platform capabilities that drive adoption across products and reduce duplication. Advancing Agentic AI & Automation: Lead the development of agentic AI solutions powering enterprise workflows, automation, and intelligent product experiences. Ensuring Responsible, Enterprise-Ready AI: Embed governance, evaluation, and responsible AI practices to deliver secure, compliant, and trustworthy systems. Driving Production Excellence: Ensure AI systems are scalable, reliable, cost-efficient, and engineered for real-world deployment. Championing Innovation & Partnerships: Deliver R&D outcomes (IP, patents, frameworks) and collaborate with Irish universities, research institutions, eco-system partners and industry bodies to accelerate impact. Delivering Business Impact: Align AI initiatives to enterprise clients’ needs and business priorities, driving measurable value, adoption, and competitive advantage. What you need to succeed: 12+ years in enterprise software, AI, platform, or cloud engineering, with 5+ years in leadership roles. Proven track record delivering production-grade AI or software systems at scale. Experience building reusable platforms, frameworks, or shared engineering capabilities. Strong understanding of modern AI engineering (LLMs, agents, orchestration, evaluation, deployment, lifecycle management). Background working with enterprise SaaS, cloud platforms, distributed systems, and APIs. Demonstrated ability to build and scale high-performing engineering teams. Experience collaborating across product, architecture, security, operations, and business stakeholders . One Last Thing: OpenText is more than just a corporation; it's a global community where trust is foundational, the bar is raised, and outcomes are owned. AI is a central pillar of OpenText’s innovation strategy. It enables differentiated product experiences, intelligent automation, trusted enterprise decisioning, and new forms of client value across our global portfolio. OpenText's efforts to build an inclusive work environment go beyond simply complying with applicable laws. Our Employment Equity and Diversity Policy provides direction on maintaining a working environment that is inclusive of everyone, regardless of 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.