Talent Architect

OneAdvanced; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

26 days’ holiday

Private medical insurance

Pension with matching contributions

Life assurance 4x salary

Employee Assistance Programme

Bereavement leave

Volunteer day

Job summary

OneAdvanced is seeking a Talent Architect in Birmingham to shape career architecture, skills frameworks and workforce development. You will design career pathways, map capabilities and support a move to skills-based talent across the organisation.

Working across HR, Learning and Talent teams, you will manage multiple projects, influence stakeholders and embed consistent talent infrastructure while expanding AI-related skill areas within existing frameworks.

Qualifications

• Legal right to work in the UK at time of application.
• Experience in career architecture or job framework design.
• Experience in talent or organisational projects.
• Ability to think critically and influence stakeholders while managing complex projects.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve career architecture frameworks, including job families, role definitions, grades and career pathways.
• Map skills and capabilities to support workforce planning and development.
• Support move toward a skills-based talent approach.
• Develop and maintain success profiles linked to skills and capability requirements.
• Identify opportunities for cross-skilling, reskilling and internal mobility.
• Collaborate with HR, Learning, Talent and the business to evolve role frameworks.
• Use workforce data to identify trends, gaps and progression opportunities.
• Embed talent infrastructure across the business and support organisational change.
• Incorporate AI-related skills into existing role and career frameworks.

Skills

Career architecture

Stakeholder management

Critical thinking

Project management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field

Tools

HR data tooling

Job description

Join OneAdvanced

We’re looking for a curious, commercially minded Talent Architect to help shape how our organisation thinks about roles, skills, career pathways and workforce development.

Join OneAdvanced

We’re looking for a curious, commercially minded Talent Architect to help shape how our organisation thinks about roles, skills, career pathways and workforce development.

This is a newly created role and a fantastic opportunity to join a business investing in skills-based talent management and future workforce capability.

You’ll work across the organisation to design and evolve career architecture frameworks, helping create clearer career pathways, stronger internal mobility and more future focused capability planning particularly as emerging areas such as AI continue to reshape the world of work.

This role would suit someone who enjoys solving complex people challenges, managing multiple projects and influencing stakeholders across a changing organisation.

What You Will Do

• Designing and evolving career architecture frameworks including job families, role definitions, grades and career pathways
• Mapping skills and capabilities across the organisation to support workforce planning and development
• Supporting the organisation’s move toward a skills-based talent approach
• Developing and maintaining success profiles linked to skills and capability requirements
• Identifying opportunities for cross-skilling, reskilling and internal mobility
• Working with stakeholders across HR, Learning, Talent and the wider business to evolve role frameworks as business needs change
• Using workforce and skills data to identify trends, gaps and progression opportunities
• Supporting organisational change initiatives and helping embed consistent talent infrastructure across the business
• Incorporating emerging capability areas, including AI-related skills, into existing role and career frameworks

What You Will Have

Please note, applicants must have the legal right to work in the UK at the time of application.

We’re open to candidates from a variety of backgrounds including Organisation Development, HR projects, consulting or workforce transformation.

You may already have experience in career architecture or job framework design, or you may have developed adjacent experience through broader talent or organisational projects.

What’s Most Important Is Your Ability To Think Critically, Influence Stakeholders And Manage Complex Projects With Confidence. We’d Love To Hear From People With Experience In

• Talent, organisational development or HR project environments
• Career pathways, capability frameworks or role design projects
• Managing multiple concurrent projects independently
• Working in complex or matrix organisations
• Stakeholder management and influencing without formal authority
• Skills based talent or workforce initiatives
• Consulting, professional services or enterprise environments

What We Do For You

Wellbeing that means something

• 26 days’ holiday + bank holidays (and the option to buy more) plus 1 paid volunteering day every year
• Exceptional family leave, 26 weeks fully paid maternity/adoption, 4 weeks fully paid paternity, 22 weeks fully paid shared parental leave, plus 5 days paid bereavement leave
• Robust sick pay of up to 13 weeks full pay + 13 weeks half pay
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme for confidential support
• Private medical insurance for everyone, no medical-history exclusions

Financial Benefits That Have Your Back

• Performance-based rewards tailored to your role, from company-wide bonuses to OTE and commission structures
• Income protection: up to 75% salary for 5 years if you ever need it
• Pension with 5% matched company contributions
• Life assurance worth 4x your salary from day one
• Free financial planning session with the option to engage in more tailored financial coaching.

Grow your career with us

• SkillsHub learning platform with leadership pathways, future-manager training, and a huge online library
• Access to external training and apprenticeships

Making a Difference

• MatchIt! Fundraise for a cause close to your heart and OneAdvanced will match part of the funding
• Pennies from Heaven donate the pennies from your pay check to help make a difference without lifting a finger

Plus plenty other flexible benefits to suit your lifestyle on our RewardHub, including:

• ULEV car scheme with 1,000+ models
• Dental insurance, Health Cash Plan, Critical Illness Cover, Partner Life Cover, Health Assessment, Gym Membership

Who We Are

At OneAdvanced, we are at the forefront of delivering sector-focused technology solutions that simplify complexity, drive meaningful progress, and help build a fairer, more inclusive society.

We’re much more than a software company. We deliver SaaS workflow applications and IT services that power organisations across Education, Government, Healthcare, Legal, Manufacturing, Housing, Retail, and more.

OneAdvanced is one of the UK’s largest business software and services companies. Based in Birmingham (The Mailbox), operating across the UK, Ireland, India, and Australia.

Our secure, scalable platform, including OneAdvanced AI, our private AI service for UK organisations, powers connectivity and innovation across critical sectors. Alongside our software are our IT services, including hosting, managed services, and application modernisation.

We strive to create an inclusive workplace that drives innovation and collaboration, championing diverse perspectives and ideas. Our Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) strategy is embedded in everything we do, guiding us to create meaningful impact for our people, our customers and the planet.

Proud to be recognised in the Financial Times’ Best Employers 2026 list for the second-year running , an independent and data led ranking based on employee feedback. Join us and become part of a team that’s powering the world of work and making a real difference.

Join us and become part of a team that’s powering the world of work and making a real difference.

www.oneadvanced.com