Domain Architect, Publishing and Content

Oxford University Press; Oxford; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading academic publisher located in Oxford is looking for a Domain Architect to enhance publishing and content data strategies. The successful candidate will work with business stakeholders to align requirements for metadata and reference data across various formats. The position entails monitoring data quality, ensuring compliance with industry standards, and proposing data model improvements. Offering competitive salary, generous holiday allowance, and a hybrid working model, this role prioritizes work/life balance and inclusivity.

Benefits

25 days’ holiday plus bank holidays

Pension contribution up to 12%

Loans and savings schemes

Travel to work schemes

Wide range of local discounts

Discretionary annual payment

Qualifications

• Ideally have experience in publishing and content-related data projects.
• Demonstrable knowledge of current trends in semantic web development.
• Experience in project management roles.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the Publishing and Content Data strategy.
• Monitor and review reference and semantic data.
• Research and propose improvements to data models.

Skills

Experience providing business requirements

Translating business needs to technology

Understanding of data description techniques

Experience in digital publishing processes

Assessment and management of reference data

Knowledge of semantic web technologies

Project ownership experience

Familiarity with publishing standards

Job description

Domain Architect, Publishing and Content x 2

The 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, and reuse across all product formats. It places particular emphasis on consolidating and providing reference and semantic metadata values across data sets aligned with industry standards (particularly ONIX, BITS, JATS, QTI). The role supports the alignment of 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 provides 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 enabling 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.

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/be:

• Demonstrated experience of providing use case/business requirements in data or publishing and content data related projects
• Demonstrated 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
• Experience of digital publishing processes, ideally across academic and/or educational publishing
• Assessment, management, and implementation of reference data – attributes, authorities, taxonomies, ontologies, or other classification systems
• Demonstrable 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
• Demonstrable knowledge of current general trends and technologies in publishing and content data model and domain model development, standards, and solutions

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.

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.

£30,000 - £35,000 dependent on skills and experience