Workday Skills Solutions and Taxonomy Lead

Skills Solutions & Taxonomy Lead

The Skills Solutions & Taxonomy Lead is responsible for designing, implementing, and governing the enterprise-wide skills framework. This includes developing a scalable taxonomy, aligning jobs to evolving skill sets, and establishing business rules for managing the skills inventory. The role ensures operationalization of skills data across talent processes, platforms, and analytics to support workforce transformation and future-of-work initiatives. You will lead, mentor, and inspire staff and peers to achieve best practices and consistently demonstrate our Guardian Values of "We do the right thing," "We believe people count," "We courageously shape our future together" and "We go above and beyond for the people we serve."

You will :

• Develop and maintain a comprehensive skills taxonomy aligned to business capabilities and job architecture.
• Define business rules for skills usage, job alignment, and inventory management.
• Maintain skills metadata (definitions, categories, proficiency levels).
• Partner with HR, business leaders, and technology teams to embed skills into workforce planning, talent acquisition, learning, and performance processes.
• Lead the integration of skills data into core systems (e.g., Workday, recruiting platforms, learning systems).
• Design workflows for automated skills assessment, mapping, and updates.
• Establish protocols for job deconstruction and reconstruction based on evolving skill needs.
• Implement data governance frameworks for skills data quality, consistency, and lifecycle management.
• Define metadata standards, proficiency levels, and validation rules.
• Monitor taxonomy usage and ensure alignment across systems and teams.
• Version control and audit trails for taxonomy updates.
• Work cross-functionally with HRTPs, COEs, IT, analytics, and external partners (e.g., Draup, TechWolf, HiredScore).
• Facilitate workshops and design sessions to align skills updates and use cases.
• Serve as SME for skills-related initiatives and transformation programs.
• Compliance & Privacy monitoring for adherence to legal & regulatory requirements, internal data policies, data capture for legal defensibility of workforce related decisions, etc.

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Location : Hybrid role - 3 days in a Guardian office located in Hudson Yards, NYC; Stamford, CT; or Bethlehem, PA. 2 days WFH, travel to Guardian offices as determined by the People Leader.

Salary Range : $129,500.00 - $212,750.00 The salary range reflected above is a good faith estimate of base pay for the primary location of the position. The salary for this position ultimately will be determined based on the education, experience, knowledge, and abilities of the successful candidate. In addition to salary, this role may also be eligible for annual, sales, or other incentive compensation.

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