Hybrid Cloud API & Platform Architect

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 and savings

Travel to work schemes

Job summary

Oxford University Press is seeking an experienced Application Architect to shape architectures across content, editorial, API and integration platforms. You will translate requirements into practical technical solutions and provide leadership to internal teams and external partners.

This 18-month fixed-term contract supports a hybrid working pattern with a minimum of two days per week in the Oxford office. You will drive security, performance and maintainability across modern and legacy

Qualifications

• Strong experience designing and guiding application architectures across APIs, integrations and data flows.

Responsibilities

• Define and assure architecture designs for new products and platform migrations.
• Guide development teams and external partners with architecture principles in Agile environments.
• Ensure security, accessibility, performance, resilience and maintainability from outset.
• Communicate complex concepts clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Skills

APIs

Cloud platforms

Enterprise applications

DevOps practices

Security and resilience

Stakeholder communication

Architecture leadership

Tools

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Cloud automation

Job description

Oxford University Press is seeking an experienced Application Architect to shape architectures across content, editorial, API and integration platforms. You will translate requirements into practical technical solutions and provide leadership to internal teams and external partners.

This 18-month fixed-term contract supports a hybrid working pattern with a minimum of two days per week in the Oxford office. You will drive security, performance and maintainability across modern and legacy