Publishing and Content Engineer

Job description

About the Role

We are looking for a Publishing and Content Engineer to help shape the future of content delivery across our products and platforms. In this role, you'll be responsible for maintaining and enhancing the validation, transformation, and quality control processes that ensure publishing and content data meets the highest standards. Your work will enable the efficient creation, delivery, and reuse of content, supporting both established publishing programmes and innovative new digital products.

Working closely with Data Architects, suppliers, system specialists, and business stakeholders, you'll analyse publishing workflows, identify opportunities for improvement, and develop technical solutions that drive efficiency and quality. You'll create and maintain transformation scripts, support XML and digital publishing processes, implement semantic metadata and AI-driven solutions, and act as an escalation point for complex content data issues. From troubleshooting data challenges to supporting new functionality releases, you'll play a vital role in ensuring content moves seamlessly through the publishing lifecycle.

This is an exciting opportunity for a technically minded problem-solver who enjoys turning complex data challenges into practical business solutions. You'll have the chance to influence data governance, improve content quality and discoverability, and help deliver products to market more efficiently. If you're motivated by continuous improvement, enjoy collaborating across diverse teams, and want to make a tangible impact on the future of digital publishing, we'd love to hear from you.

We operate a hybrid working policy that requires a minimum of 2 days per week in the Oxford office.

About You

Essential:

• Experience of XML formats and related technologies (such as XSLT, XPath, Unicode, XSpec, Schematron, RDF, DITA, ONIX).
• Able to accurately evaluate functional and presentational publishing and content data requirements.
• Able to effectively assess and resolve publishing and content data errors, identifying and addressing root causes.
• Quick-to-learn, tech-savvy, and possess exceptional problem-solving, organizational, and time-management skills.
• Demonstrable knowledge of data structure and mechanisms to write digital publishing and content data transformation scripts and capture instructions.
• Excellent organizational, problem-solving, communication and time-management abilities.
• Experience working with publishing and content data across academic and/or educational publishing.

Desirable:

• Experience of programming languages (e.g. JavaScript, Python, PHP).
• Understanding of the software lifecycle (e.g. Agile and DevOps methodologies) and associated tools.
• Knowledge of publishing and content data management systems and methodologies.
• Knowledge/experience of automated semantic classification and reference data solutions including AI, data mining, and knowledge engineering tools and processes.

Benefits

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.

Queries

Please contact [email protected] with any queries relating to this role.

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.