OpenText Developer - Advanced

• Design, build, and maintain high-volume batch applications with predictable throughput, restart ability expectations, and stable rendering behavior.
• Strong command of template/layout architecture: modular reusable components, shared style libraries, page sets, conditional regions, dynamic tables, keep/float rules, overflow handling, and deterministic pagination.
• Advanced business-rule implementation: suppression logic, eligibility, multi-product/customer variations, jurisdiction/state logic, and effective-dating of disclosures.
• Deep understanding of print-oriented composition concerns (page numbering, duplex rules, address blocks/windows, inserts stubs, banners/messages, statement cycles).

PDF + AFP output engineering (expert)

• PDF fidelity: consistent rendering across environments, font embedding/substitution strategy, image handling, barcode quality where relevant, and output size/performance trade-offs.
• AFP fundamentals (as used in CCM/print streams): page segments/overlays/resource usage concepts, font/resource management, print production constraints, and ensuring deterministic AFP output for vendor/mainframe print flows (as applicable).
• Ability to design channel-parity rules: same content logic producing correct output in both PDF and AFP, with controlled exceptions (e.g., resource constraints).

Data integration and data-model discipline (expert)

• Define and govern data contracts for composition: hierarchical structures, repeat groups, record-level vs document-level attributes.
• Build robust mapping/transformation with clear handling of nulls, defaults, formatting (dates/currency), and special characters/multi-byte text.
• Implement data validation gates (pre-compose checks) and clear "fail vs fallback" behavior to avoid silent compliance defects.
• Performance-aware data usage: avoid per-record expensive operations; design for batch scale (e.g., repeat handling, conditional evaluation costs).

Performance, scalability and stability in batch (expert)

• Diagnose and improve throughput by tuning: layout complexity, conditional logic hotspots, image usage, font/resource loading patterns, and I/O.
• Understand and manage memory footprint and batch sizing strategies to prevent long-run degradation.
• Design for re-run safety and operational recovery: consistent job parameters, deterministic outputs, and clear checkpoint/restart approaches supported by your environment.

Testing and quality for regulated communications (expert)

• Build a golden-sample regression suite: baseline outputs (PDF/AFP), controlled datasets, and repeatable comparisons (page-level, content-level).
• Edge-case testing: long strings, overflow, missing data, unusual characters, extreme repeat counts, boundary effective dates/jurisdictions.
• Clear defect triage: isolate whether an issue is data, rules, layout/pagination, or resources/fonts; fast root cause and fix validation.

Release management, governance and auditability (critical)

• Version control and promotion discipline for templates/rules/resources with traceability (what changed, why, approvals).
• Change impact analysis across templates/products and disclosures; rollback readiness.
• Strong PII controls: masking in lower envs, secure handling of sample datasets, retention practices aligned to policy.

Operations and orchestration (senior hands-on)

• Integrate with enterprise schedulers and upstream/downstream handoffs (data extracts in, print streams out).
• Produce operational runbooks: parameters, expected runtimes/volumes, failure modes, restart steps, reconciliation checks.
• Monitoring mindset: identify the right job-level KPIs (volumes processed, rejects, runtime, output counts, exception reasons).

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain OpenText Exstream applications and customer communication templates.
• Elicit and analyze business requirements, translating them into robust technical solutions.
• Develop, test, and deploy document templates, workflows, and batch processes.
• Integrate Exstream solutions with enterprise systems and diverse data sources.
• Diagnose and resolve issues related to document generation, formatting, and production.
• Contribute across the full SDLC: requirements, design, development, testing, and deployment.
• Tune performance and ensure high availability and reliability of Exstream implementations.
• Produce clear technical documentation and facilitate knowledge transfer and handovers.
• Keep current with new OpenText Exstream features and industry best practices.

• Demonstrated experience as an OpenText Exstream developer.
• Hands-on expertise with OpenText Exstream Design Manager, Communication Builder, and related tooling.
• Proficiency in document composition, template development, batch processing, and event?driven processing.
• Knowledge of data integration with columnar data, XML/XSD, and other common data formats.
• Familiarity with Java, SQL, and scripting languages is a plus.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem?solving abilities.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to operate independently in a remote setting.