Programmer / Migration Consultant

The opportunity:

The Senior Programmer / Technical Consultant, working as part of the Portfolio, Professional Services Group, to be a self-starter, responsible for liaising with customers and/or internal staff, understanding requirements and implementing solutions based on an agreed approach. He/she will need to understand OpenText products and offerings – to bring innovative ideas, to understand the bigger picture and to shape technical solutions to business problems.

The role manages clients as well as internal expectations, and is responsible for the delivery of project engagements. He/she must also be able to work within a team to provide technical insight, creative solutions and options to Professional Services project management, and other technical members of the team. As an on-site representative of OpenText Professional Services, the Technical Consultant networks within the client’s organisation to identify client business objectives, issues, and opportunities both within and external to the engagement itself.

You are great at:

Become familiar with Portfolio/Analytics OpenText software applications

Develop customized solutions

Test and confirm customer requirements and implementations

Lead customer on-site implementations and provide knowledge transfer

Create architectural documents and engagement hand off documents

Provide pre-sales and technical support to sales

Present technical solutions

Assist in the writing of work proposals

Recognize and report additional opportunities during customer engagements

Other duties as assigned

What it takes:

Requirements:

Strong written and verbal English communications skills

Strong customer-oriented focus

Project and time management skills

Knowledge of the Microsoft Office product suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio)

Proven ability to execute tasks to achieve the best possible results for the customer and OpenText

Experience / Education:

Must have:

5+ years of hands-on data warehousing or ECM migration work experience (after College or Graduate program).

Knowledge in Enterprise Content Management (ECM) concepts.

Technical background with high-availability architectures and enterprise solutions.

Good object oriented design and programming background.

Knowledge in general data warehousing concepts and ETL tools.

Programming languages:

HTML, XML, SQL

Thorough understanding of Web technologies and application servers (Websphere, JBoss, BEA Weblogic, etc)

Databases:

Knowledge and development of databases concepts, SQL Server, Oracle, etc.

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Nice to have/optional:

Knowledge of LiveLink/Content Server, Mobius, IBM FileNet P8, IBM FileNet IS, IBM OnDemand, Documentum, eDocs, MS SharePoint, People Soft, JD Edwards, SAP, BPCS etc.

Knowledge on programming languages JAVA, JSP, JavaScript, VBScript, C#, C++, VB, PL SQL, Python, Unix shell scripting.

Knowledge and experience with various operating systems such as Windows, Linux, AIX, Solaris, UNIX and/or Mainframe and JCL

Knowledge of structured data such as EDI, AL3, HL7, X12, XML, FIX/SWIFT and others

Special Requirements:

Ability to travel and work within North America and Globally