Application Architect: API & Cloud Platform Leader

Oxford University Press; Oxford; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Hybrid working

Pension up to 12%

Salary Finance loans

Christmas closure

discretionary annual payment

Job summary

Oxford University Press is seeking an experienced Application Architect to shape technology across content, editorial, API and integration platforms. You will translate business requirements into practical technical solutions, guiding architecture for new products, enhancements, migrations and platform improvements across a global audience.

This role is highly collaborative, providing technical leadership to internal teams and external partners.

Qualifications

• Experience providing technical leadership to development teams, acting as a trusted technical authority and coach.
• Experience designing, reviewing, and assuring application architectures, integrations, and cloud-hosted solutions.
• Experience working with Agile delivery teams, including Scrum and Kanban methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Define and assure application, API, integration and data-flow designs across platforms.
• Translate business requirements into practical, secure, maintainable technical solutions.
• Guide architecture of new products, enhancements, migrations and platform improvements.

Skills

APIs

Integrations

Cloud platforms

Enterprise apps

DevOps

CI/CD

Automated testing

IaC

Security

Performance

Accessibility

Stakeholder comms

Job description

Oxford University Press is seeking an experienced Application Architect to shape technology across content, editorial, API and integration platforms. You will translate business requirements into practical technical solutions, guiding architecture for new products, enhancements, migrations and platform improvements across a global audience.

This role is highly collaborative, providing technical leadership to internal teams and external partners.