{"id":1661198,"url":"https://alion.io/job/lam-research-skills-architect-program-manager","title":"Skills Architect Program Manager","company":{"id":58649,"name":"Lam Research","domain":"lamresearch.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/lam-research","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Eightfold","truth_index":{"grade":"C","score":58,"open_postings":791,"ghost_share":0.427,"stale_share":0.028,"repost_share":0.721,"time_to_fill_p50_days":70,"computed_at":"2026-10-03T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"Management","role_family":"Management","seniority":"staff","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":[],"countries":[],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":12,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Power BI","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-24T17:13:39Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-01","last_verified_at":"2026-10-03T23:39:47Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":9,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":9},"description":"The group you’ll be a part of\nThe Global Human Resources Group operates on the understanding that our people are our most valuable assets. They think globally to optimize our workforce, integrate our Core Values into everything we do, and deliver the HR solutions to enhance the employee experience and enable future growth.\nThe impact you’ll make\nThe Skills Architect Program Manager is responsible for designing, governing, and continuously evolving Lam Research’s enterprise skills architecture. This role owns the structure and integrity of the skills framework, including skills taxonomy, role-based skills profiles, proficiency models, skill definitions, and relationships across jobs, learning, talent, and workforce processes.\nThe role combines skills architecture expertise with program management to translate workforce, business, and labor market insights into scalable skills solutions. The role leads skills validation, develops taxonomy recommendations, establishes architecture standards, and manages the implementation of approved changes across various talent and learning platforms. The role also surfaces actionable skills insights and data to identify workforce capability needs and inform broader upskilling and reskilling efforts across Lam.\nWhat you’ll do\nSkills Architecture & Governance\nDesign and continuously evolve Lam’s enterprise skills architecture, including taxonomy structure, proficiency levels, definitions, relationships, and role-based skills profiles.\nEstablish architecture standards and governance criteria for creating, modifying, consolidating, and retiring skills.\nAnalyze business needs, workforce priorities, and labor-market trends to identify emerging, declining, and critical skills.\nMaintain the quality and integrity of the skills taxonomy by resolving duplicate, outdated, overlapping, or poorly defined skills.\nEvaluate proposed changes and recommend scalable enhancements aligned with enterprise standards and business requirements.\nMaintain architecture documentation, decision rationale, and quality controls.\nSkills Program Management\nLead enterprise skills architecture priorities and roadmap initiatives.\nPlan and facilitate skills discovery, design, and validation sessions with business and functional stakeholders.\nTranslate business requirements and SME input into architecture recommendations, decisions, and implementation plans.\nMaintain the roadmap, backlog, dependencies, decision log, and implementation priorities.\nMonitor adoption, assessment, and taxonomy-health data to improve the skills framework and employee experience. \nAnalyze and surface skills insights, gaps, and trends to inform enterprise upskilling and reskilling priorities.\nEcosystem Integration\nDefine how enterprise skills architecture is represented across Lam, independent of any specific technology platform. \nEstablish skills-mapping principles across jobs, learning content, development plans, career pathways, talent acquisition, and workforce planning.\nPartner with HRIS and technology teams to translate architecture requirements into system configurations and integrations.\nAssess the downstream impact of taxonomy changes and validate skills tagging, content mapping, recommendations, and role profiles across systems.\nIdentify and resolve architecture and data inconsistencies between platforms.\nWhat you’ll do (continued)\nStakeholder Partnership\nServe as the enterprise subject-matter expert for skills architecture, taxonomy design, and role-based skills modeling.\nAdvise HR Business Partners, Talent Acquisition, Workforce Planning, Talent Management, Global Inclusion Learning & Development, HRIS, and business leaders on skills architecture decisions.\nFacilitate alignment between business needs, enterprise standards, governance requirements, and system constraints.\nTranslate complex architecture concepts into clear recommendations for business and executive audiences.\nSuccess Measures\nQuality, consistency, and scalability of the enterprise skills architecture\nAccuracy and relevance of skills taxonomy and role-based profiles\nSuccessful implementation and adoption of approved architecture enhancements\nAlignment of skills across talent, learning, career, and workforce processes\nTimely delivery of roadmap priorities, architecture decisions, and actionable skills insights that inform upskilling, reskilling, and workforce capability priorities\nWho we’re looking for\nMinimum of 12 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 8 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 5 years experience; or equivalent experience.\n5+ years of experience in skills architecture, talent management, job architecture, workforce development, learning, HR technology, or a related field.\nExperience designing or significantly enhancing enterprise skills frameworks, taxonomies, or role-based skills models.\nExperience translating business and workforce requirements into scalable skills solutions.\nExperience facilitating skills discovery and validation with SMEs, HR partners, and business leaders.\nStrong analytical, consulting, program-management, and executive-communication capabilities.\nExperience working across interconnected HR, talent, and learning platforms.\nPreferred qualifications\nExperience with Eightfold, Cornerstone, Workday, SuccessFactors, or similar platforms.\nExperience designing skills taxonomies, proficiency frameworks, and relationships among skills, roles, jobs, and learning content.\nKnowledge of job architecture, competency models, occupational frameworks, and skills-based talent practices.\nExperience with workforce analytics, labor-market intelligence, skills-gap analysis, and executive reporting.\nExperience supporting talent and learning system integrations.\nProficiency with Power BI, Excel, or related reporting tools.\nOur commitment\nWe believe it is important for every person to feel valued, included, and empowered to achieve their full potential. By bringing unique individuals and viewpoints together, we achieve extraordinary results.\nLam Research (\"Lam\" or the \"Company\") is an equal opportunity employer. Lam is committed to and reaffirms support of equal opportunity in employment and non-discrimination in employment policies, practices and procedures on the basis of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, or military and veteran status or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. It is the Company's intention to comply with all applicable laws and regulations. Company policy prohibits unlawful discrimination against applicants or employees.\nLam offers a variety of work location models based on the needs of each role. Our hybrid roles combine the benefits of on-site collaboration with colleagues and the flexibility to work remotely and fall into two categories - On-site Flex and Virtual Flex. ‘On-site Flex’ you’ll work 3+ days per week on-site at a Lam or customer/supplier location, with the opportunity to work remotely for the balance of the week. ‘Virtual Flex’ you’ll work 1-2 days per week on-site at a Lam or customer/supplier location, and remotely the rest of the time.\n#LI-DM1\nOur Perks and Benefits\nAt Lam, our people make amazing things possible. 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