Bedford, Freeman & Worth Publishing Group L.LC is a confederation of these unique publishing houses: Bedford/St.
Martin’s, WH Freeman & Company, and Worth Publishers.
Focusing on the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, each of these three companies pursues its own publishing program independent of the others.
Each boasts in its portfolio a number of landmark books, as well as innovative electronic and multimedia products, and each is known throughout the educational publishing world for superior text development and production.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Position Description: Director.
Digital Platforms is responsible for delivering enterprise reliability, security, and scalability of our digital platforms that support individual and institutional customers and internal content-related workflow.
This position requires hands on leadership, team building and a proven track record in building and running enterprise systems.
Major Responsibilities: Manage digital system platforms for high availability, reliability, scalability, and security.
Manage the infrastructure and systems that support a full SDLC.
Oversees the design, development, and integration of technologies needed to create a unified digital workflow for all output formats.
Develops, maintains, and enhances integration with core infrastructure system including SSO, search, analytics, helpdesk, and ecommerce.
Manage and integrate DRM systems.
Manage the development of data warehouse services and access control.
Develop and maintain secure, custom and standards-based integrations with customer institutions.
Ensure appropriate integration to channel and media distribution partner systems for print on demand, mobile content delivery, streaming content, etc.Manage technology aspects of RFP processes for applicable systems Required Skills / Knowledge: Recent hands on experience in developing and/or managing Microsoft-based enterprise web-based systems.
Strong SQL database backgroundTechnical managerial experience managing LAMP-based system.
Strong general digital security and ecommerce security experience.
Content management system experience (eg Documentum) Experience Needed: 10-15 years hands on and technical managerial experience Publishing industry experience (desired, but not required)Experience in working with stakeholders in introducing new technology and workflow into organizations.
Experience managing overseas resourcesModerate budget experience Educational Background Required: BS in Computer Science, Information Science, or applicable degree.
Director, Digital Platforms Job in New York, New York US