Workday Solutions Architect Talent Management and AI

At Gilead were creating a healthier world for all people. For more than 35 years weve tackled diseases such as HIV viral hepatitis COVID-19 and cancer working relentlessly to develop therapies that help improve lives and to ensure access to these therapies across the globe. We continue to fight against the worlds biggest health challenges and our mission requires collaboration determination and a relentless drive to make a difference.

Every member of Gileads team plays a critical role in the discovery and development of life-changing scientific innovations. Our employees are our greatest asset as we work to achieve our bold ambitions and were looking for the next wave of passionate and ambitious people ready to make a direct impact.

We believe every employee deserves a great leader. People Leaders are the cornerstone to the employee experience at Gilead and Kite. As a people leader now or in the future you are the key driver in evolving our culture and creating an environment where every employee feels included developed and empowered to fulfil their aspirations. Join Gilead and help create possible together.

Job Description

At Gilead our pursuit of a healthier world for all people has led to a cure for hepatitis C revolutionary advances in HIV treatment and prevention and progress across viral and inflammatory diseases and certain cancers.

We set bold ambitions in our fight against some of the worlds most devastating diseases. We are united by a shared commitment to solving complex public health challenges and improving the lives of patients for generations to come.

Gilead is seeking a Workday Solutions Architect focused on Talent Management and AI to help shape the future of our global employee technology experience.

This is an opportunity to do more than optimize an established platform. You will help define how Gilead brings together Workday Talent Performance Skills Career Development Learning Recruiting and emerging AI-enabled experiences to create scalable intuitive solutions for our workforce.

As a senior individual contributor with platform-wide impact you will own the architecture and evolution of these capabilities while ensuring alignment across Core HCM security reporting integrations data and downstream platforms. You will play a key role in leading our Skills strategy and establishing a thoughtful enterprise approach to Workday AI and agents that is secure explainable auditable and grounded in trusted Workday data and business processes.

This role is ideal for a Workday expert who enjoys solving complex problems influencing strategy and building what comes next.

Location: Foster City California
Hybrid schedule: Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday in office

What Youll Do

Shape the Future of Talent Management & AI

• Own and evolve the Workday solution architecture across Performance Talent & Succession Skills Career Development Learning and Recruiting establishing scalable and maintainable standards and guardrails.
• Define the target architecture and roadmap for Workday Skills including skills taxonomy and governance worker and job-profile skills data quality proficiency inferred skills reporting integrations talent experiences and adoption.
• Create connected talent experiences across goals feedback reviews calibration succession development internal mobility learning recruiting and skills-based decision-making.
• Establish the enterprise architecture and governance approach for Workday AI and agentic solutions incorporating human oversight responsible AI controls security privacy testing monitoring auditability and release management.
• Shape and lead implementation of the Workday Self-Service Agent and other AI agents across areas such as recruiting payroll job architecture talent management and HR service delivery.
  

Lead Solution Design & Delivery

• Lead end-to-end discovery and business process design workshops for Talent Performance Skills and AI-enabled experiences.
• Translate complex business needs into clear functional technical data integration security and agent interaction designs.
• Help stakeholders understand architectural decisions trade-offs risks and opportunities while guiding teams toward scalable solutions.
  

Drive Innovation & Platform Evolution

• Lead architectural impact assessments for Workdays semiannual releases guiding testing readiness adoption and post-release optimization.
• Evaluate emerging Workday innovations and AI capabilities developing pilots and value cases and helping define a roadmap based on business outcomes risk feasibility user experience and total cost of ownership.
• Define meaningful measures for Skills adoption and AI agent performance including accuracy completion escalation cycle-time reduction employee experience risk and realized business value.
  

Influence Across the Organization

• Serve as a senior individual contributor and trusted Workday architecture leader with platform-wide influence.
• Provide architectural direction training and design oversight to functional and technical team members.
• Partner closely with business stakeholders IT teams and vendors across multiple strategic initiatives.
• Bring clarity to complex technical topics and help teams turn ideas into secure scalable solutions.
  

Basic Qualifications

• 8 years of relevant experience with a BS/BA or
• 6 years of relevant experience with an MS/MA or MBA

Preferred Skills & Experience

Were looking for someone who brings deep Workday expertise along with the ability to think strategically about what the platform can become.

• 8 years of hands-on Workday experience spanning architecture configuration solution design implementation and support across multiple HCM modules.
• Deep expertise in Workday Talent and Performance including goals feedback reviews calibration talent and succession career development and connections with Recruiting Learning Core HCM reporting and security.
• Experience leading a Workday Skills implementation or enterprise skills transformation including taxonomy governance job and worker profiles data quality inferred skills reporting integrations adoption and operating model.
• Experience implementing Workday AI capabilities or enterprise AI agents including use cases across recruiting payroll job architecture talent management HR service delivery or similar areas.
• Strong understanding of agentic solution design including conversational design workflow orchestration human-in-the-loop controls permissions responsible AI testing monitoring and auditability.
• Experience leading new module implementations redesigns integrations large-scale enhancements and global deployments.
• Ability to make architectural decisions navigate trade-offs troubleshoot complex functional and technical challenges and turn business needs into clear scalable designs.
• Strong communication facilitation and influencing skills including the ability to make complex Workday and AI concepts understandable to nontechnical audiences.
• Ability to successfully navigate multiple priorities and initiatives in a fast-moving global environment.
• Bachelors degree in Information Systems Human Resources Business a related field or equivalent practical experience.
  

What Will Make You Successful

Youll thrive in this role if youre energized by both strategy and hands-on problem solving . You can move from a conversation about talent strategy and employee experience to a detailed discussion about Workday architecture security integrations data or AI governance.

Most importantly youll have the opportunity to help shape how Skills and AI become part of Gileads broader Workday ecosystem influencing solutions that support employees and the business at scale.

People Leader Accountabilities

• Create Inclusion: Understand the business value of diverse teams model inclusion and embed the value of diversity in how teams are supported and led.
• Develop Talent: Understand employees skills experiences aspirations and potential and provide the feedback coaching and insight needed to support their continued development.
• Empower Teams: Connect teams to broader organizational goals and purpose provide the support needed to remove barriers and strengthen connections across the organization.
  

The salary range for this position is: $146540.00 - $189640.00. Gilead considers a variety of factors when determining base compensation including experience qualifications and geographic location. These considerations mean actual compensation will vary. This position may also be eligible for a discretionary annual bonus discretionary stock-based long-term incentives (eligibility may vary based on role) paid time off and a benefits package. Benefits include company-sponsored medical dental vision and life insurance plans*.

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Please apply via the Internal Career Opportunities portal in Workday.

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