Director, HR Domain Architect

About the Team:

Enterprise Systems is the backbone of GSK’s internal operations in Digital & Tech, enabling GSK Global Functions teams such as Finance, Procurement, HR, Legal, Compliance, WREF, CGA and Corporate Secretariat to run seamlessly. This team designs and delivers cutting-edge digital platforms that power critical processes, ensuring efficiency, compliance, and scalability across the enterprise.    

Our HR Digital & Tech team transforms how GSK attracts, develops, and retains talent through innovative technology solutions. From managing global HR platforms to delivering data-driven insights, this function ensures our people have the tools and experiences they need to thrive. Partnering closely with HR business teams, we create solutions that simplify processes, enhance employee engagement, and enable strategic workforce planning. If you’re passionate about technology that empowers people, this is where you can make an impact.

Job Purpose:

The Director, HR Domain Architect defines and governs the architectural framework for the HR Digital & Tech Domain, ensuring that technology decisions support business goals and enable the successful delivery of domain Products, such as Workday, Payroll & Time, etc. The role partners with senior stakeholders to guide solution direction, establish domain standards and principles, and provide architectural leadership across solutions delivered within the domain. The HR Digital & Tech Domain Architect ensures that products are designed in a way that is scalable, interoperable, and aligned to agreed business and technology objectives.

This role operates under GSK's "Performance with Choice" hybrid working approach, typically expecting 2–3 days per week in the office, with the specific pattern agreed between the successful candidate and their manager based on role and team needs.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and maintain the architectural framework, standards, and schematics for the HR Digital & Tech Domain, including domain-specific principles, patterns, data flows, and interface models.
• Introduce and govern a Domain Standards Catalogue (e.g., principles, reference patterns, SLAs, reusable assets), ensuring lifecycle ownership, version control, and adoption across delivery teams.
• Partner with senior Business and IT stakeholders to guide domain technology decisions, ensuring alignment to business goals, risk appetite, and product delivery priorities.
• Partner with VP Global HR D&T, Data and Digital Enablement Director and HR Tech Tower Leads to define long term architecture simplification and consolidation strategy
• Partner with HR Tech Delivery Director on key architecture decisions and delivery of top priority projects
• Lead business case development for new technology investments, ensuring alignment with key stakeholders and funding submission.
• Provide architectural guidance to Solution Architects and delivery teams, enabling consistent design approaches; define reusable domain contracts and interface specifications with versioning, observability, and interoperability requirements.
• Produce and maintain architecture artefacts for the domain (e.g., reference architectures, models, integration schematics, contract definitions, security patterns) required to support delivery and operational readiness.
• Support compliance and governance processes (e.g. Architecture Review Board, Change Advisory Board), including architecture review checkpoints, exemption criteria, design sign-off, and updates to the domain technical debt register.
• Assess architectural compliance and technical debt trends within the domain, contributing actionable recommendations to improve scalability, reliability, maintainability, and product lifecycle sustainability.
• Maintain a regular cadence with Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise AI, Cyber Security, and Product Teams to align on standards, resolve cross-domain design challenges, and support enterprise-level use cases and digital ecosystem interoperability.
• Track and report key architecture KPIs for the domain (e.g., pattern adoption, application rationalisation, exemptions closed, technical debt reduction, readiness score, contract/interface reuse index).
• Lead your team in using approved AI tools to improve productivity and ways of working, role-modelling responsible use and follow GSK’s Responsible AI, privacy and security requirements.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in a relevant field (e.g., Computer Science, Information Technology, or Engineering), or equivalent experience.
• 19 to 25 years in architecture or technical design roles, including experience applying architecture principles within a product or domain context.
• Demonstrated ability to define architectural patterns, standards, or frameworks.
• Experience reviewing and guiding solution designs to ensure alignment with architectural requirements.
• Practical experience documenting domain models, interface specifications, and other architectural artefacts.
• Exposure to evaluating technology decisions and advising stakeholders with clear architectural rationale.
• Experience collaborating with business and product teams to anchor architecture to value and delivery needs.
• HR Domain experience
• Experience on workday, skills platform, learning platforms, SAP SuccessFactors, Microsoft azure.
• Industry certifications highly desirable (e.g., TOGAF, cloud certifications).

Preferred Skills:

• Strong analytical and conceptual modelling skills.
• Ability to communicate architectural concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to challenge and influence design decisions constructively.
• Strong documentation and design-modelling skills.
• Awareness of emerging technologies and ability to apply them within the context.
• Ability to work in a very fast-paced and fluid environment
• Comfortable with ambiguity and change
• Very detailed oriented

Skills

Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases – to impact health at scale.

People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we’re committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people.

Inclusion at GSK:

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