Senior Manager, AI & Data Science

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 hub for advanced AI engineering, applied AI platforms, sovereign cloud, cybersecurity, and trusted enterprise innovation.

As part of this investment, we’re hiring aSenior Manager, AI& Data Science to help turn cutting-edge AI strategy into real-world impact. In this role, you’ll lead a high-performing, multidisciplinary team of engineers and data scientists to build and deploy production-grade AI systems that directly drive business and customer outcomes.

This is a hands-on leadership role where you will own end-to-end delivery, translating strategy into execution, setting team direction through OKRs and milestones, and ensuring systems meet high standards for performance, scalability, and reliability. You will play a critical role in aligning AI innovation with tangible business value.

You’re great at:

Owning execution delivery, team performance, and overall operational health.

Leading, coaching, and scaling a high-performing team of 20–30 R engineers and data scientists.

Translating strategic roadmaps into clear quarterly plans, OKRs, and measurable delivery milestones.

Ensuring production AI systems consistently meet SLAs across reliability, performance, and quality.

Ensuring all features and initiatives are directly tied to customer value and business outcomes.

Driving cross-functional alignment with Product, Security, and Platform teams.

Driving technical direction and architectural decisions in partnership with technical leads.

Driving operational excellence through reliability, scalability and security best practices.

Building strong talent pipelines, fostering technical leadership and career development.

Monitoring and optimizing delivery using KPIs, engineering metrics, and data-driven insights.

What you need to succeed:

Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, AI, or a related technical field.

Minimum 8-12 years of experience in software engineering, AI, or data science.

Proven success leading and developing mid-sized, multidisciplinary engineering teams.

Experience managing large-scale software delivery programs from concept to production.

Experience driving cross-functional execution across engineering, security and operations.

Experience operating in Agile environments at scale, ideally across globally distributed teams.

Experience building, scaling and developing global high-performing engineering teams.

Experience establishing team objectives, performance expectations and career development.

Experience operating production systems with availability, reliability, and scalability.

Experience managing competing priorities and resources.

Strong analytical mindset with a data-driven approach to decision-making.

Strong understanding of AI agents and AI solution delivery.

Understanding of cloud-native architectures and AI deployment platforms.

Familiarity with AI governance, security and compliance considerations.

Strong communication and collaboration skills across technical 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.

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