Sr Learning and Development Specialist

The Senior Learning & Development Specialist is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining a future-ready skills-based learning architecture that equips coworkers and leaders at every level to grow, adapt, and perform in a rapidly transforming business environment. This role sits at the intersection of learning strategy, skills taxonomy, and capability development, ensuring that learning content, pathways, and experiences are directly aligned to critical enterprise skills, proficiency levels, and business priorities including AI transformation and business transformation.

Partnering closely with the Director of Learning Strategy & Design, the broader Talent team, HR Business Partners, and business stakeholders, this role will aid in building a scalable, globally consistent skills-based learning ecosystem. This includes translating CDW's skills taxonomy and leadership capability model into structured, multi-modality learning paths that ensure coworkers and people leaders can build the skills they need today and develop the capabilities required for tomorrow.

What you’ll doAs a Sr. Learning & Development Specialist, you will shape and deliver transformative learning experiences that drive enterprise-wide skills development.
• Build and maintain skills-based learning architecture aligned to enterprise skills taxonomy
• Map learning experiences to identified Workday Skills Cloud and proficiency levels
• Design structured multi-modality learning paths in support of high priority skills
• Build and maintain skills content roadmap aligned to business priorities
• Develop prioritized learning pathways for critical skill gaps
• Design, build, and deliver high-impact learning solutions using modern instructional design technology and principles
• Apply appropriate training methods and modalities based on learning objectives and audience needs
• Establish and maintain governance frameworks and SOPs for development assets
• Ensure consistency and quality across all learning deliverables
• Leverage learning technologies and platforms to enhance learner engagement
• Design, build, and deliver high-impact learning solutions using modern instructional design technology and principles
• Apply appropriate training methods and modalities based on learning objectives and audience needs
• Establish and maintain governance frameworks and SOPs for development assets
• Ensure consistency and quality across all learning deliverables
• Leverage learning technologies and platforms to enhance learner engagement
• Champion AI fluency across all learning solutions and modalities
• Identify opportunities to integrate AI-enabled tools and technologies into learning design
• Support enterprise transformation by ensuring learning architecture evolves at pace of business change
• Stay current with emerging AI trends and their implications for learning and development
• Foster a culture of innovation and adaptability within the learning organization

What we expect of you
• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Leadership Development, Organizational Development, or related field (or equivalent experience) and  5+ years of experience working in learning & development roles that have a combination of instructional design, facilitation, program management, consulting, etc OR 9+ years of experience working in learning & development roles that have a combination of instructional design, facilitation, program management, consulting
• 5+ years of experience creating, activating, and evolving development solutions for both the individual contributor and people leader populations
• 5+ years of experience working in a skills-based organization, driving learning architecture to support high priority skills at all levels
• 5+ years of…