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About the Role
We are seeking an experienced data modelling professional to join our vibrant and supportive technology development team as Senior Content Data Model Architect. The role will have governance accountability for all OUP Content Data models (mainly in XML), prioritising, reviewing and managing their strategic development, and signing-off the deliverables of Content Data Model Architecture to support business requirements for display, functionality, and accessibility. You will be representing OUP’s Content Data models and the data model team internally and externally at a high level, owning the Data Model roadmap, providing a senior expert escalation point and consultancy and pro-actively raising requirements for related solutions and processes, and ensuring their alignment with domain models and external standards.
Key responsibilities in this role will include:
Lead specialist, expert contributions to the Content Model Strategy, defining core digital content principles and applying these in governance of content schemas/models.
Own the definition of content data model activities on the roadmap and ensure these are prioritised effectively.
Responsible for developing, delivering, reviewing and approving the Content Data Model deliverables, and ensuring appropriate content schemas/models and structures are in place for all content, prioritizing harmonization across content sets and divisions, simplification, format-neutrality, potential for automated generation, and alignment with industry standards and the content domain model.
Design, review, and approve changes to content data model capture instructions, working with appropriate implementation and Content Engineering stakeholders to ensure models and solutions are communicated and tested as required.
Design and regularly review the mapping of Content Data models to the Content Domain model, as well as to functional and display outputs in all formats.
Pro-actively raise and assess requirements for transformations, tools, and process solutions by which content schemas/models can be applied and validated, enabling their controlled application.
Overseeing the deliverables of Content Data Model Architecture, providing leadership guidance and prioritisation, and reviewing team deliverables across divisions
Act as a Content Data model consultant to support the Implementation team's deliverables (e.g. for solution development, validation, scripting, and data transforms), including participating in testing solutions and outputs where appropriate.
Independently represent the team, the Content Data model(s), and digital content principles internally and externally – to build knowledge and awareness within the business and facilitate conversations and consultancy with clients, customers, and readers.
Monitor and translate industry standards, developments, and other impactful requirements into appropriate content data structures and/or values.
Engage in and participate with specific industry initiatives to reflect the requirements and considerations relevant to OUP.
Assess proofs-of-concept against strategic principles and priorities
We operate a hybrid working policy that requires a minimum of 2 days per week in the Oxford office.
About You
To be successful in this role, you will ideally have:
Essential:
Extensive experience of XML formats and related technologies (such as XSLT, XPath, Unicode, XSpec, Schematron, RDF, DITA)
Able to accurately evaluate functional and presentational content data requirements, and proactively ensure that solutions align with strategic principles
Demonstrable knowledge of content structures and ability to write and review/approve clear text capture instructions
Ability to lead and influence stakeholders while working independently on strategic and tactical projects.
Desirable:
Experience of programming languages (e.g. Java, Python, PHP), data validations, and transforms
Knowledge of content management systems and methodologies.
Experience leading the work of a team - assessing, reviewing, managing, and prioritising their deliverables and showing enthusiasm for leading change
Experience working with digital content across academic and/or educational publishing
Demonstrable knowledge of current general trends and technologies in publishing content data model development, standards, and solutions
Parsing or matching content in large quantities of data (for example through exploiting databases or language engineering)
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.
Please see our Rewards and Recognition page for more information.
Please note this advert may be removed before the advertised end date, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
We are committed to supporting diversity in our workforce, and ensuring an inclusive environment where all individuals can thrive. We seek to employ a workforce representative of the markets that we serve and encourage applications from all.