Lifecycle Architect

Viasat; Greater London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Viasat in the United Kingdom is seeking a Lifecycle Architect to own the end-to-end design of the employee lifecycle—from onboarding through transfers, promotions and offboarding. You will translate people strategy into scalable, human-centered process blueprints and partner with Tier 1/2 teams and HR Technology to ensure practical delivery.

You’ll map journeys, define Tier 0 self-service, enablement assets, governance and compliance, and build analytics dashboards to monitor cycle times,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in HR, organizational design, business administration, or related field.
• 4–7+ years of progressive experience in HR Operations, Process or Service Design, or HR Project Management.
• Lifecycle Design: success designing global employee lifecycle programs with measurable improvements.
• Service Delivery Exposure: experience with HR Shared Services or case management and Tier 1/2 impact.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end employee lifecycle journey maps for major events (onboarding, transfers, promotions, leaves, offboarding).
• Create Tier 0 self-service, Tier 1 assisted, and Tier 2 escalation pathways.
• Translate business requirements into human-centered process designs with compliance in mind.
• Partner with Tier 1/2, HR Technology, and Legal for practical, scalable solutions.
• Establish governance, data integrity, and change management for lifecycle docs.
• Own analytics framework: KPIs for lifecycle quality, process cycle times, and deflection.

Skills

Process design

Journey mapping

Workday

ServiceNow

Agile design thinking

Content design

Analytics

Stakeholder collaboration

HRIS systems

Education

Bachelor’s degree in HR or related field

MBA preferred

Tools

Miro

Lucidchart

Visio

Workday

ServiceNow

AI chatbots

Job description

About Us

One team. Global challenges. Infinite opportunities. At Viasat, we’re on a mission to deliver connections with the capacity to change the world. For more than 35 years, Viasat has helped shape how consumers, businesses, governments and militaries around the globe communicate. We’re looking for people who think big, act fearlessly, and create an inclusive environment that drives positive impact to join our team.

About Us

One team. Global challenges. Infinite opportunities. At Viasat, we’re on a mission to deliver connections with the capacity to change the world. For more than 35 years, Viasat has helped shape how consumers, businesses, governments and militaries around the globe communicate. We’re looking for people who think big, act fearlessly, and create an inclusive environment that drives positive impact to join our team.

What You'll Do

The Lifecycle Architect is an individual contributor responsible for the end-to-end design, architecture, and continuous optimization of the employee lifecycle experience—spanning onboarding, transfers, promotions, and offboarding. Reporting directly to the Leader of Employee Lifecycle Enablement and Service Delivery, this role owns the experience layer: translating people strategy into process blueprints, enablement frameworks, and self-service solutions that employees and managers can genuinely use. Critically, the Lifecycle Architect does not work in isolation. A core part of this role is partnering tightly with other lifecycle design and enablement roles as well as Tier 1 (HR Shared Services) and Tier 2 (complex case management) service delivery teams to ensure that designed experiences hold up in practice—informing how agents are trained, how knowledge articles are written, and how escalation paths are structured so the intended experience is consistently delivered at every point of contact.

The day-to-day

Employee Lifecycle Journey Design

• Architect and own the end-to-end journey maps for all major lifecycle events (Onboarding, Transfers, Promotions, Leaves of Absence, and Offboarding), documenting process flows, decision logic, system touchpoints, and role ownership at every step.
• Design for the full-service tier model, ensuring each lifecycle event has a coherent Tier 0 self-service path, a clear Tier 1 assisted support motion, and a well-defined Tier 2 escalation route—so no employee or manager falls through the cracks.
• Translate business and compliance requirements into human-centered process designs that balance operational rigor with a seamless employee experience.
• Identify and eliminate friction, using service delivery data, employee feedback, and root-cause analysis to simplify legacy processes, remove redundant steps, and improve end-to-end cycle times.

Enablement Design & Self-Service (Tier 0)

• Lead the design and ongoing maintenance of Tier 0 self-service assets—knowledge base articles, guided workflows, AI chatbot conversation flows, and manager toolkits—ensuring content is accurate, up-to-date, and written in plain language.
• Apply UX and content design principles to build self-service experiences that genuinely deflect Tier 1 contacts, co-creating with employees and managers through user testing, empathy mapping, and iterative refinement.
• Partner with HR Technology to define UI/UX requirements for People systems (e.g., Workday, ServiceNow), ensuring system experiences reflect intended process designs.
• Define and track Tier 0 performance, including self-service deflection rates and knowledge article effectiveness, using insights to continuously prioritize and improve the enablement content library.

Service Delivery Partnership (Tier 1 & Tier 2 Enablement)

• Serve as the primary design partner to Tier 1 and Tier 2 service delivery teams, ensuring process designs are operationally viable and that agents have the training materials, SOPs, and knowledge resources needed to deliver the intended experience at every interaction.
• Develop and maintain agent-facing enablement assets: standard operating procedures (SOPs), process guides, decision trees, escalation matrices, and onboarding/training materials for all lifecycle events.
• Establish structured feedback loops with service delivery, using case volume data, agent insights, and escalation patterns to identify where experience designs are breaking down and feed those findings back into the design cycle.
• Participate in quality review cycles, auditing case handling against process design intent and flagging systemic gaps for redesign, content refresh, or agent enablement uplift.

Governance, Compliance & Data Integrity

• Build and maintain governance models defining ownership, change management protocols, and version control for all lifecycle process documentation and enablement assets.
• Ensure all process designs comply with global labor laws and data privacy regulations (e.g., GDPR, CCPA), partnering with Legal and Total Rewards to embed compliance checkpoints directly into lifecycle workflows.
• Maintain data integrity standards across lifecycle transactions in HRIS platforms (e.g., Workday), defining field-level requirements, downstream dependencies, and audit controls.

Analytics & Continuous Improvement

• Own the measurement framework for lifecycle experience quality, defining KPIs including process cycle times, completion rates, Tier 0 deflection rates, and employee satisfaction at key lifecycle moments.
• Conduct regular root-cause analysis on process failures, low adoption areas, or elevated service volumes, producing data-backed design recommendations for the Leader and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Build and maintain dashboards and reporting that make lifecycle health visible to People leadership and demonstrate the ROI of design and enablement investments.

Agile Design Practice

• Manage a prioritized backlog of lifecycle design improvements, applying Agile and Design Thinking methodologies to deliver incremental, user-validated changes at pace.
• Facilitate co-design sessions (journey mapping workshops, empathy mapping, prototype reviews) with employees, managers, and HR stakeholders to ensure solutions are grounded in real user needs rather than internal assumptions.
• Act as the internal subject matter expert on employee lifecycle process architecture, advising HRBPs, regional HR teams, and HR Technology on design decisions and their cross-functional implications.

What You'll Need

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Organizational Design, Business Administration, or a related field. Master’s or MBA preferred.
• Experience: 4–7+ years of progressive experience in HR Operations, Process or Service Design, or HR Project Management, with direct experience designing employee-facing processes at scale.
• Lifecycle Design: Demonstrated success designing and implementing global employee lifecycle programs with measurable improvements in experience quality or operational efficiency.
• Service Delivery Exposure: Prior experience working alongside or within an HR Shared Services or case management function, with a clear understanding of how process design decisions affect Tier 1 and Tier 2 operations.

Technical & Methodological Skills

• Process & Journey Design: Strong proficiency in process mapping, journey mapping, and service design tools (e.g., Miro, Lucidchart, Visio); comfortable producing both high-level experience maps and detailed SOP-level documentation.
• HR Systems: Working experience with modern HRIS platforms (e.g., Workday) and HR service delivery tools (e.g., ServiceNow HR Service Delivery). Familiarity with knowledge management platforms and AI chatbot tooling is a plus.
• Agile & Design Thinking: Practical experience applying Agile/Scrum and Design Thinking frameworks in non-technical or HR environments. Certification (CSM, PMI-ACP) preferred but not required.
• Content & Enablement Design: Ability to produce clear, plain-language process documentation, knowledge articles, and training materials for both employee-facing and agent-facing audiences.
• Analytics: Comfortable working with case management metrics, process performance data, and employee feedback to identify patterns and translate findings into actionable design improvements.

What Will Help You On The Job

• Systems Thinking: Sees how individual process decisions ripple across tiers, teams, and systems—and designs with those dependencies in mind.
• User-Centric Mindset: Deep empathy for the employee and manager experience; instinctively designs for real humans, not org charts or internal convenience.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Skilled at working across HR functions—service delivery, HRBPs, Total Rewards, HR Technology—and bringing diverse stakeholders into the design process without losing momentum.
• Structured Communication: Translates complex process logic into clear documentation, visual artifacts, and presentations for audiences ranging from frontline agents to senior HR leadership.
• Bias for Clarity: Naturally challenges ambiguous or overly complex legacy processes and proposes simpler, better alternatives backed by data and user insight.

EEO Statement

Viasat is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, seeking to create a welcoming and diverse environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, genetics, age, or veteran status or any other applicable legally protected status or characteristic. If you would like to request an accommodation on the basis of disability for completing this on-line application, please click here.