Primark
Solution Architect - HR

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Solution Architect - People & Culture
Duration: Initial 6 Months
Location: Reading or Dublin (Hybrid basis)
Job Type: Inside IR35 Day Rate
We're looking for an experienced Solution Architect to support a number of strategic colleague experience and HR transformation programmes across its global technology landscape.
This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in shaping the architecture and future direction of Workday Learning, Workday Evolve and wider colleague-facing platforms, ensuring solutions are secure, scalable and aligned to enterprise architecture standards.
What you'll be doing
- Leading the end-to-end solution architecture for Workday Learning and related colleague experience platforms
- Defining and governing learning-related data architecture, including ownership models, system-of-record principles and foundational data dependencies
- Designing authentication and access solutions supporting Workday SSO, MFA and secure colleague access across all user populations
- Establishing architecture patterns for learning access across shared retail devices, kiosks and frontline colleague technology
- Assessing and governing integration impacts across HR systems, identity platforms, employee experience technologies and third-party learning solutions
- Defining target-state colleague journeys across Workday Learning and MY P&C to ensure a seamless user experience
- Supporting legacy learning platform archiving, data retention and decommissioning activities
- Developing architecture roadmaps and target-state designs supporting Workday Evolve and broader Workday transformation initiatives
- Defining solution architecture standards, integration principles and architectural blueprints across the Workday ecosystem
- Assessing the impact of new capabilities, localisation requirements and regulatory changes across the Workday landscape
- Providing architectural leadership across multiple concurrent HR and colleague experience transformation workstreams
- Collaborating with business, HR, technology and delivery stakeholders to ensure successful solution outcomes
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What we're looking for
- Proven experience as a Solution Architect delivering enterprise-scale technology solutions
- Strong experience designing and implementing Workday Learning and broader Workday architecture solutions
- Deep understanding of solution architecture principles, frameworks and best practices, including TOGAF or equivalent
- Strong knowledge of HR, Learning and Talent technology ecosystems
- Experience defining enterprise architecture roadmaps, solution blueprints and target-state architectures
- Knowledge of Identity & Access Management technologies, including SSO, MFA, Entra ID and SailPoint
- Experience with enterprise integration architecture and API-led design approaches
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence technical and non-technical audiences
- Experience working across large-scale HR or workforce transformation programmes
- Retail industry experience and an understanding of frontline colleague technology would be highly beneficial
- 8+ years' technology experience, including 5+ years delivering enterprise-scale architecture solutions
- Relevant degree or professional qualifications preferred


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