Content Platform Architect: XML Publishing & Strategy

CFA Institute; United States; Hybrid; USD 93,000 - 123,000; Full time

Job summary

CFA Institute seeks a Content Architect, Systems to serve as Education’s senior technical authority for the content production and learning delivery ecosystem. You’ll partner with IT to shape platform strategy, influence architectural decisions, and modernize tools for curriculum delivery across print, digital, and learning platforms.

You will lead Education’s transition to next-generation publishing technologies, ensure systems meet instructional and editorial needs, and define governance and

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience with XML publishing workflows in production environments.
• Strong understanding of enterprise content management systems to support complex publishing operations.
• Experience translating operational needs into platform improvements across technical and business stakeholders.
• Proven ability to manage detailed, technically complex production environments with focus on quality and accuracy.
• Experience influencing platform decisions, architectural direction, or technology roadmaps.
• Excellent collaboration skills with IT, Product, vendors, and content teams.

Responsibilities

• Own Education-side architecture for content production and learning delivery platforms.
• Partner with IT to influence long-term roadmaps and architectural direction.
• Collaborate with other Content Architects to align platform with workflows and operations.
• Lead transition to modern XML publishing technologies and replacement of legacy solutions.
• Ensure enterprise systems meet instructional, editorial, accessibility, and operational needs.
• Define standards, governance, metadata structures, and best practices for platform usage.
• Drive automation improvements to reduce manual effort and improve production quality.
• Support curriculum delivery across outputs (Canvas, PDFs, print, eBooks) via single-source publishing workflows.

Skills

XML publishing

Single-source publishing

Enterprise content management

Stakeholder collaboration

Architecture direction

Digital publishing

Tools

RSuite

Canvas

Typefi Orion

Job description

CFA Institute seeks a Content Architect, Systems to serve as Education’s senior technical authority for the content production and learning delivery ecosystem. You’ll partner with IT to shape platform strategy, influence architectural decisions, and modernize tools for curriculum delivery across print, digital, and learning platforms.

You will lead Education’s transition to next-generation publishing technologies, ensure systems meet instructional and editorial needs, and define governance and