Skills Architect Program Manager

The 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.

The 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.

The 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. The 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.

• Design and continuously evolve Lam’s enterprise skills architecture, including taxonomy structure, proficiency levels, definitions, relationships, and role‑based skills profiles.
• Establish architecture standards and governance criteria for creating, modifying, consolidating, and retiring skills.
• Analyze business needs, workforce priorities, and labor‑market trends to identify emerging, declining, and critical skills.
• Maintain the quality and integrity of the skills taxonomy by resolving duplicate, outdated, overlapping, or poorly defined skills.
• Evaluate proposed changes and recommend scalable enhancements aligned with enterprise standards and business requirements.
• Maintain architecture documentation, decision rationale, and quality controls.

• Lead enterprise skills architecture priorities and roadmap initiatives.
• Plan and facilitate skills discovery, design, and validation sessions with business and functional stakeholders.
• Translate business requirements and SME input into architecture recommendations, decisions, and implementation plans.
• Maintain the roadmap, backlog, dependencies, decision log, and implementation priorities.
• Monitor adoption, assessment, and taxonomy-health data to improve the skills framework and employee experience.
• Analyze and surface skills insights, gaps, and trends to inform enterprise upskilling and reskilling priorities.

• Define how enterprise skills architecture is represented across Lam, independent of any specific technology platform.
• Establish skills‑mapping principles across jobs, learning content, development plans, career pathways, talent acquisition, and workforce planning.
• Partner with HRIS and technology teams to translate architecture requirements into system configurations and integrations.
• Assess the downstream impact of taxonomy changes and validate skills tagging, content mapping, recommendations, and role profiles across systems.
• Identify and resolve architecture and data inconsistencies between platforms.

• Serve as the enterprise subject‑matter expert for skills…