Director, HR Domain Architect

Overview

Define and govern the architectural framework for the HR Digital & Tech Domain, ensuring technology decisions support business goals and the successful delivery of domain products such as Workday and Payroll & Time.

What you'll do

• 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 following GSK's Responsible AI, privacy and security requirements.

What you'll need

• 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.

Nice to have

• Industry certifications highly desirable (e.g., TOGAF, cloud certifications).
• 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 detail oriented.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru Luxor North Tower.
• Work mode: Hybrid under GSK's "Performance with Choice" approach, typically 2–3 days per week in the office, pattern agreed with manager.