Director, HR Domain Architect

Job Title: Director, HR Domain Architect Company: GSK SAP Module: SAP SUCCESSFACTORS Roles & Responsibilities: 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. Skills Architecture Governance, HR Systems Implementation, Human Resources (HR) Technology Solution Integrations, Human Resources Integration, Reference Architectures, Solution Architecture, Stakeholder Management, The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF), Workday HCM Important notice to Employment businesses/ Agencies GSK does not accept referrals from employment businesses and/or employment agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site. All employment businesses/agencies are required to contact GSK's commercial and general procurement/human resources department to obtain prior written authorization before referring any candidates to GSK. The obtaining of prior written authorization is a condition precedent to any agreement (verbal or written) between the employment business/ agency and GSK. In the absence of such written authorization being obtained any actions undertaken by the employment business/agency shall be deemed to have been performed without the consent or contractual agreement of GSK. GSK shall therefore not be liable for any fees arising from such actions or any fees arising from any referrals by employment businesses/agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site. Work Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Availability: Full time

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). It has come to our attention that the names of GlaxoSmithKline or GSK or our group companies are being used in connection with bogus job advertisements or through unsolicited emails asking candidates to make some payments for recruitment opportunities and interview. Please be advised that such advertisements and emails are not connected with the GlaxoSmithKline group in any way. Key Skills: SAP SuccessFactors Salary: Not disclosed