ABOUT THE ROLE
OUP’s application portfolio includes digital customer-facing systems, content and data platforms, ecommerce services, learning and assessment solutions, online journals, and research tools. Within this broader portfolio, the Academic Division depends on a focused set of platforms supporting journals and research publishing, content production, Higher Education learning, interoperability services, dictionary products, and language data applications. Together, these platforms form the Academic Product Technology portfolio and provide the core capabilities required to operate and evolve Academic’s publishing products.
The Solution Architect is the senior architectural lead within Academic Product Technology, responsible for defining, owning, and evolving end-to-end solution architecture across this complex portfolio of platforms and services. This is a senior solution leadership role, responsible for end-to-end solution architecture, making clear trade-offs, and influencing decisions across teams and stakeholders.
You will provide solution leadership across multiple platforms, systems, integration layers, and data flows, ensuring that technology solutions are cohesive, scalable, secure, and aligned with enterprise architecture strategy and Academic product priorities, while working closely with Enterprise Architecture to ensure solutions are fit for purpose and meet agreed standards and patterns.
Operating across a landscape that includes legacy technologies, third-party platforms, and modern cloud-based services, you will apply balanced and pragmatic judgment to determine when to evolve existing systems, integrate new capabilities, design new solutions, or pursue targeted rebuilds where there is a clear rationale.
Acting as a trusted architectural partner to senior non-technical stakeholders, you will translate complex technical decisions into clear business implications, risks, and options, shaping product direction and influencing priorities.
You will work closely with Application Architects, Engineering, and Delivery teams to provide architectural direction and technical leadership, while retaining accountability for overall solution integrity and outcomes across the domain and ensuring solutions are delivered and operated with long-term sustainability.
We operate a hybrid working policy that requires a minimum of 2 days per week in the Oxford office.
