ABOUT THE ROLE
OUP’s digital products serve researchers, teachers, and learners across educational and academic institutions. They include a broad range of digital, content and data-centric platforms, learning & assessment services, online journals, research platforms and integration with web and eCommerce application as well as a range of mobile product apps.
The Application Architect will work with our Publishing content lifecycle product/systems owners to understand problem statements and collaborate with Enterprise and Solution Architecture colleagues to define all aspects of solution development, appropriate technology, and workflows to develop, implement and quality assure solutions/applications. Solution or application delivery may be through development of new capabilities through projects and programmes or enhancements to existing applications within value streams.
This role will also work closely with UX, Quality Assurance, Infrastructure, and Cybersecurity & Privacy colleagues to ensure all aspects of delivery, both functional and non-functional, are fully met. Solution delivery may be through development of new capabilities within projects and programmes, or enhancements to existing applications within value streams.
The Application Architect will have hands-on responsibility for contributing to and guiding in-house development teams and partner vendors in the adoption of architectural patterns and code-level implementation of solutions, ensuring that OUP standards, processes and documentation are adhered to. They will also act as a champion for best practices and work to help teams continuously improve their architectural approaches and DevOps processes.
The Application Architect will have hands on experience of programming languages, software frameworks, hosting and cloud services and varied delivery methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban and Scaled Agile.
We operate a hybrid working policy that requires a minimum of 2 days per week in the Oxford office.
