35.1093, Jobs: Computational Linguistics, General Linguistics: Senior Manager - Data Architecture and Analytics for Cambridge Dictionary, Cambridge University Press & Assessment

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Subject: 35.1093, Jobs: Computational Linguistics, General Linguistics: Senior Manager - Data Architecture and Analytics for Cambridge Dictionary, Cambridge University Press & Assessment

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Date: 28-Mar-2024
From: Cambridge University Press & Assessment  [matt.bailey at cambridge.org]
Subject: Computational Linguistics, General Linguistics: Senior Manager - Data Architecture and Analytics for Cambridge Dictionary, Cambridge University Press & Assessment

University or Organization: Cambridge University Press & Assessment
Department: English
Job Location: Cambridge, United Kingdom
Web Address: https://www.cambridge.org/
Job Title: Senior Manager - Data Architecture and Analytics for
Cambridge Dictionary
Job Rank: Other

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics

Description:

Senior Manager, Data Architecture and Analytics, Cambridge Dictionary

Contract: Full-time, 35 hours per week

Salary: £49,800 - £66,600

Location: Cambridge, hybrid (2 days per week working from the office
are expected)

We have an exciting opportunity on the Cambridge Dictionary team.

Our mission is to contribute to society through the pursuit of
education, learning, and research at the highest international levels
of excellence.

We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading
academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the
University of Cambridge.

About the role:

As Senior Manager, Data Architecture and Analytics, you will work
closely with members of a highly collaborative, agile, and ambitious
international team to support and enable significant business growth
and transformation of the Cambridge Dictionary website as a product
itself and as a driver of new business for the emerging Direct to
Learner (D2L) sector.

As a leader on the D2L product management team, you will manage the
data structure and database systems for the Cambridge dictionary, the
Cambridge corpus, and consumer products; the processes whereby content
is composed for output to platforms and products; the measurement of
the performance of those products; and the lifetime data for users of
those products.

This is a specialised, senior role requiring a deep theoretical
knowledge of computational linguistics, the technical ability to
configure and manage systems in which both linguistic data and user
data are housed and manipulated, and the ability to analyse and report
on complex data to inform product decisions for the dictionary website
and consumer products.

Want to learn more about this role? Please see the attached job
description.

About you:

You have a degree in a field relevant to linguistic data analysis,
ideally an advanced degree in computational linguistics. You are
familiar with dictionaries and corpus linguistics. You have experience
with content management systems, preferably in an educational
publishing environment – familiarity with English Language Teaching
publishing is a plus.

You bring expertise in the structuring of XML data, DTDs, and XSLT
transformations for complex data; in database creation and
maintenance; SQL; and corpus creation. You are proficient in Excel,
web analytics, and Perl scripting; knowledge of Python is desirable.
You understand HMTL, CSS, Javascript, and other web technologies and
how they interact, including SEO.

You are an experienced manager and strong communicator, with great
interpersonal skills with staff and stakeholders alike, whether it's
with colleagues, partners, clients, or vendors. On a practical level,
you're a pragmatic and resourceful problem-solver. You're comfortable
working collaboratively in a fast-paced environment, making decisions
quickly to adapt the roadmap to changing priorities.

Rewards and benefits

We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well
outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a
world-class, flexible rewards package, featuring family-friendly and
planet-friendly benefits including:

 - 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
 - Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance
 - Discretionary annual bonus
 - Group personal pension scheme
 - Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary
 - Green travel schemes

We review applications on an ongoing basis, with a closing date for
all applications being 7th April 2024; interviews are scheduled to
take place the week commencing 8th April 2024.

Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory
background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated
industry.

Application Deadline: 07-Apr-2024
Mailing Address for Applications:
Web Address for Applications: https://careers.cambridge.org/jobs/vacan
cy/senior-manager-data-architecture-and-analytics-cambridge-dictionary
-cambridge/4512/description/
Contact Information:
        Cambridge University Press & Assessment
        Email: matt.bailey at cambridge.org

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