Senior Content Engineer
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Senior Content Engineer designing scalable XML/DITA content models, metadata, and workflows for College Board’s education platforms. Leading content architecture across Drupal, XDocs, print, digital, and AI-ready experiences.
Responsibilities:
- Design and document structured content models and metadata frameworks for scalable content creation, reuse, maintainability, author workflows, and editorial governance
- Provide technical leadership to engineering partners on consuming, rendering, and scaling structured content across new UIs
- Coach team members on content APIs and prototype solutions aligned with front-end needs
- Integrate content consistently across print and digital workflows
- Improve modeling, tagging, and delivery of complex content for a unified user experience
- Contribute to long-term content architecture strategy for the Authentic Work Platform
- Collaborate with engineers, designers, product teams, and cross-functional partners
- Design content systems balancing author usability with machine readability and flexible front-end rendering
- Lead content migrations, governance improvements, and large-scale model redesigns
- Collaborate on reusable components, content validation, and API integration
- Apply content architecture to personalization, AI-readiness, search, and findability
Requirements:
- 4–6 years of experience designing structured content or data models and workflows for digital products
- Expertise in structured content systems such as XML/DITA
- Experience in production-scale, user-facing environments
- Familiarity with enterprise content management systems such as Drupal and XDocs
- Experience with authoring workflows and metadata structures
- Ability to read and debug delivery APIs
- Scripting transformation experience
- Ability to analyze markup and metadata for modeling decisions
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Systems-thinking and architectural approach to scalable, maintainable, reusable content design
- Strong influencing and negotiation skills across cross-functional teams
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field and 4–6 years of experience with structured content systems, or equivalent experience in a content engineering role
- Ability to travel 3–5 times per year to College Board offices or on College Board business
- Authorization to work in the United States
- Curiosity and willingness to adopt emerging and AI-driven technologies
- Ability to learn and apply new digital tools independently and proactively
- Commitment to growth, feedback, iterative learning, and user input
- Ability to make data-informed decisions and solve complex problems
- Collaborative and empathetic approach
Benefits:
- Fully remote work option
- Optional hybrid schedule for candidates near College Board offices (Tuesday and Wednesday in office)
- Annual bonuses
- Merit-based raises and promotions
- Competitive compensation adjusted by location
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Supportive team and meaningful career
- Professional development and investment in employee development and success
- Mission-driven workplace
- Global/occasional in-person business travel opportunities



















