Over 400 jobs for Cork and Galway as Canadian AI data giant doubles Irish workforce

They already have 150 staff at their Cork

OpenText will be expanding in Cork

A Canadian company that already has 150 staff working in Cork is planning to double their Irish workforce – working at the cutting edge of data management for Artitical Intelligence (AI) firms.

OpenText has been operating in Cork Airport Business Park since 2014 and has today announced a €105 million investment that will create 400 new jobs across the company’s sites in Ireland over the next three years.

The commitment, which doubles OpenText’s investment in Ireland, will significantly expand the company’s agentic AI, cybersecurity, sovereign cloud, and digital operations capabilities in service of European, Middle East & African (EMEA) economies and public sectors.

This is the single largest investment into Ireland by a technology company headquartered in Canada. The €105 million investment is directed at operations and R&D across three areas foundational to trusted enterprise AI — agentic AI, sovereign cloud, and cybersecurity — that will create high-skilled roles at OpenText in Cork and Galway. Irish-based developers and researchers will design, deploy, secure and operate these AI & cloud capabilities for EMEA markets.

OpenText announced the investment in Dublin marking a significant milestone in Canada-Ireland technology and economic collaboration. It comes as Canadian prime minister Mark Carney is visiting Ireland.

“Organisations across Europe are looking for trusted partners that can help them deploy AI securely, govern it responsibly, and operate with confidence across increasingly complex digital environments,” said Shannon Bell, EVP, Chief Digital Officer and CIO, OpenText.

“This investment expands our EMEA R&D and operations capacity to deliver the trusted AI, cybersecurity, and cloud capabilities our clients already rely on globally, while giving European organisations greater regional support and flexibility across the cloud environments of their choice.”Scaling Trusted AI Operations for EMEA

OpenText’s expanded European operations will increase regional capacity for organisations operating in highly regulated and mission-critical environments, including organisations requiring greater control over data governance, cyber resilience, and cloud deployment models.

The company says the investment is part of OpenText’s cloud-of-choice strategy to enable clients with the flexibility to operate across hybrid public cloud, private cloud, and sovereign cloud systems.

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