HCM Solution and Integration Architect
GlaxoSmithKline3 days ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end solution architectures for HR capabilities across the employee lifecycle.
- Apply capability-based architecture to determine system fit, avoid duplication, and guide investment decisions.
- Rationalize the HR integration landscape and define integration patterns, standards, and principles.
- Provide architecture authority and best-fit guidance for Workday and other HCM capabilities.
- Participate in architecture governance forums, design reviews, and investment discussions.
- Maintain capability maps, solution views, spider diagrams, and integration diagrams in enterprise repositories.
- Collaborate with HR Product Owners, Business Partners, Enterprise Architecture, Data, Security, and external vendors.
- Translate complex architecture topics into business-relevant recommendations for senior stakeholders.
- Ensure solutions comply with enterprise architecture guardrails, data principles, and applicable regulatory expectations.
Requirements
- 12–14 years of experience in solution and/or integration architecture.
- Deep hands-on experience with Workday and other HCM tools, including Core HR, Talent, Learning, and integrations.
- Strong knowledge of enterprise architecture principles, capability modeling, platform strategy, and technology lifecycle management.
- Proven experience simplifying fragmented integration landscapes in a global enterprise environment.
- Strong understanding of HR data domains, integration patterns, and downstream consumers such as analytics, payroll, identity, and learning.
- Experience in global, regulated enterprises with strong governance expectations is preferred.
- Familiarity with ServiceNow HRSD, IAM/PAM, data platforms, or integration middleware is preferred.
- Experience with formal architecture governance models is preferred.
- Ability to balance strategic architecture with pragmatic delivery realities and influence without authority.
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About GlaxoSmithKline
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) develops and manufactures prescription medicines and vaccines for infectious disease, HIV, respiratory, oncology and immunology, selling to healthcare systems and distributors worldwide. The London‑headquartered public company was formed in 2000 from the merger of Glaxo Wellcome and SmithKline Beecham, and in 2022 spun off its consumer health business as Haleon. GSK’s revenue comes primarily from proprietary drug and vaccine sales supported by global R&D and commercial partnerships.