Oxford University Press
Publishing and Content Domain Architect
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About the Role
The Publishing and Content Domain Architect role is responsible for working with business stakeholders and external data standards to surface, assess, align, and raise requirements for publishing and content reference data and metadata, including elements, attributes, and structures required for content, publishing, and product functionality, display, discovery, tracking, sales, and reuse across all product formats. It places emphasis on consolidating and providing reference and semantic metadata values across data sets aligned with industry standards. The role will align the data model with associated data application solutions (including system architecture alignment with the data model and testing system developments against the data model); and provide governance and management of reference data and semantic metadata values aligned across OUP’s publishing and content data domains.
The role involves contributing to the Publishing and Content Data strategy and roadmap, leading use case discovery with SMEs, and assessing requirements for data formats, structures, and metadata. Responsibilities include monitoring and regular reviewing reference and semantic data, surfacing enrichment capabilities, raising requirements for data applications, and ensuring alignment with cross-divisional domain models. The role also covers research and development to map, standardize, and propose improvements to data models, testing new metadata solutions, and ensuring efficient system data flows. Additionally, the position acts as an SME, maintains governance documentation, and ensures consistent data definitions and guidelines across domains and divisions.
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We operate a hybrid working policy that requires a minimum of 2 days per week in the Oxford office.
About You
Essential:
- Experience providing use case/business requirements in data or publishing and content data related projects.
- Experience translating business needs to technology and data teams.
- Understanding of data description and modelling techniques (e.g. XML in industry standards such as BITS, JATS, QTI, ONIX), supporting systems, data creation workflow, and implementation.
Desirable:
- Experience of digital publishing processes, ideally across academic and/or educational publishing.
- Experience of assessment, management, and implementation of reference data – attributes, authorities, taxonomies, ontologies, or other classification systems.
- Knowledge of current trends and technologies in ‘semantic web’ development, including natural language processes, AI tools.
- Experience of project ownership and/or project SME and communications roles.
- Knowledge of current general trends and technologies in publishing and content data model and domain model development, standards, and solutions.
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Benefits
We care about work/life balance here at OUP. With this in mind we offer 25 days’ holiday that rises with service, plus bank holidays and Christmas closure (3-days) and a 35-hour working week. We are open to discussing flexibility in respect to working patterns, dependent on role. We also have a great variety of active employee networks and societies.
We help make your money go further by contributing to your pension up to 12%, offering loans and savings schemes through our partnership with Salary Finance, in addition to travel to work schemes and access to a wide range of local discounts.
This role comes with the added benefit of a discretionary annual payment.
Please see our Rewards and Recognition page for more information.
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