Global and Skills Architecture Consultant - Assistant Director

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Working for the Global Jobs & Skills Architecture Lead, this role will work to continuously improve and maintain an enterprise-wide skills taxonomy and job architecture, working closely with senior business leaders, our skills‑management vendors and with Talent. The role will lead, design and deliver on technology enablement of the job and skills architecture, including designing AI agents to manage a variety of processes, and prompt engineering to support review and manipulation of large datasets.

The role will consider how changes to skills and the job architecture will impact downstream processes incl: recruitment, reward, learning, workforce planning and resource management, and work across Talent functions at global and region level to ensure the changes are understood and implemented effectively.

• Responsible for maintaining the global skills taxonomy ure the skills taxonomy is accurate and maintained to reflect the skills across the EY organization, working with internal business leaders and third parties/partners. Ensure these skills are reflected in global technology platforms to support additional Talent and business processes.
• Lead on skills intelligence utilising analytics to show how skills attributes, for example skills adjacencies, emerging and declining skills can support key talent activities such as career development, resourcing, internal hiring and workforce planning.
• Identify opportunities to where agentic AI and similar technologies can be implemented to improve the development, maintenance and accessibility of the global skills taxonomy. Wherever possible developing these in‑house or working with appropriate entities to deploy these at a global scale.
• Work closely with the wider skills transformation project team, including AI Innovation and Enterprise Technology to communicate JSA requirements and embed these within the new implementations.
• Work to an agreed governance cycle to review the skills taxonomy and role/job architecture with the required business leaders. Ensure effective review and oversight of changes to these solutions, ensuring that the downstream impacts of these changes are considered and managed effectively (e.g. communications sent out to impacted employees, technology platforms updated).
• Build relationships with selected people in the business to ensure that the skills taxonomy includes key skills needed for the delivery of EY business.
• Anticipate skill gaps or new requirements, and where business leaders highlight key skills to be developed, liaise with L&D Business Partners to consider how learning and development can help address skills gaps or build required capability.
• Contribute to the Global Skills strategy for EY, working with the Talent Strategy and Organization Effectiveness function. Understand how leading skills‑centric organisations operate and what is required at EY to bring visibility and knowledge of skills, and how skills can be used to support effective learning, recruitment, workforce planning and resource management.
• Promote the importance of skills to the EY organization and act as a leading voice and expert on skills and careers across the Talent function and with the business (as required).
• As instructed by the Skills & Career Lead, develop proposals for change to enhance Global skills solutions and/or the career experience ure that appropriate consultation is done with Super Regions and SL stakeholders, and ensure appropriate business case materials are prepared to secure investment through the Global Talent governance process.

• As a member of the Global L&D team, work to define and implement effective skills and career solutions.
• Provide expert guidance to the wider Learning Impact, Innovation…