VP, Data Center Portfolio & Transformation

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.

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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.

OpenText is a global leader in secure information management for AI, helping organizations unlock the value of information by connecting data, people, and processes while embedding security, governance, and compliance throughout the information lifecycle.

As OpenText advances its Cloud and AI strategy, its infrastructure must evolve to support a more agile, secure, resilient, automated, and economically optimized operating model.

OpenText is seeking a transformational technology executive to serve as Vice President, Global Data Center Portfolio & Transformation.

This leader will be the single accountable executive for the strategy, optimization, and transformation of OpenText's global data center portfolio, leading a multi-year effort to significantly reduce the physical footprint while creating a modern infrastructure foundation for the future.

The mandate includes transforming the current portfolio of approximately 63 data center sites toward a future-state footprint of approximately 10 strategic locations, while determining the optimal placement of workloads across retained facilities, colocation environments, and hyperscale cloud platforms.

• Consolidate and modernize approximately 50% of workloads into a smaller, standardized physical estate.

• Migrate approximately 50% of workloads toward hyperscaler platforms, using rehosting, replatforming, containerization, modernization, or retirement based on workload complexity, criticality, economics, security, regulatory requirements, and change tolerance.

The VP will partner closely with Infrastructure, Enterprise Architecture, Product Engineering, Security, Finance, Procurement, Corporate Development, Facilities, and other executive stakeholders.

• Define and execute OpenText's global data center portfolio strategy, driving consolidation,