Associate Director - Legal, Compliance & WREF Domain Architect

About the Team: Enterprise Systems is the backbone of GSK’s internal operations in Digital & Tech, enabling GSK Global Functions teams such as Finance, Procurement, HR, Legal, Compliance, WREF, CGA and Corporate Secretariat to run seamlessly. This team designs and delivers cutting-edge digital platforms that power critical processes, ensuring efficiency, compliance, and scalability across the enterprise.         Legal, Compliance & WREF Digital & Tech delivers digital solutions that support Legal & Compliance and Workplace Real Estate & Facilities (WREF). This team drives product roadmaps and manages platforms that safeguard GSK’s integrity and reputation globally. By joining this team, you’ll help shape systems that support thousands of employees worldwide, driving innovation and reliability in the tools that keep GSK moving forward.  Job Purpose: The Legal, Compliance + WREF Architect is responsible for designing, governing, and maintaining data architecture across Legal, Compliance and Workplace Real Estate & Facilities (WREF) domains, ensuring that data models, data flows, and integrations follow enterprise data and architecture standards while supporting Legal, Compliance & WREF-specific business needs. The role ensures data is structured, secure, and interoperable across products within Legal, Compliance & WREF, evaluating upstream and downstream impacts of solution changes, and guiding delivery teams on best practice. The Legal, Compliance + WREF Architect aligns domain data platforms and data products to enterprise principles, enabling trusted, scalable, and well-engineered data solutions that support analytics, operational processes, and decision-making within the domain. The role is accountable for some critical data products in Legal & Compliance aligned to Compliance Risk Analytics and Corporate Investigations. This role operates under GSK's "Performance with Choice" hybrid working approach, typically expecting 2–3 days per week in the office, with the specific pattern agreed between the successful candidate and their manager based on role and team needs. Key Responsibilities: • Define and maintain data architecture for the Legal, Compliance & WREF Domain, including domain-specific data models, lineage, data flows, data contracts/APIs, and integration patterns across cloud and on-premise platforms. • Assess the architectural impact of new data sources, changes, and integrations within the Legal, Compliance & WREF domain, setting functional data architecture that aligns to enterprise standards and governance guidance. • Provide technical leadership for complex domain data designs, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure-by-design (e.g., privacy threat modelling, DLP, encryption policies), interoperable, and optimised for business value. • Ensures core Legal & Compliance data products such as Compliance Risk Analytics & Monitoring (CRAM) and data services provided for corporate investigations are modern, robust and AI ready. This includes supporting business stakeholders to increase the scope of these data platforms through new integrations/data sources • Ensures L&C&W data products are architected and engineered in the most cost effective way utilising enterprise hosting/cloud services. • Develop and maintain domain architecture artefacts, including conceptual, logical, and physical data models, lineage completeness, metadata definitions, reference architectures, and versioned API/data contracts for interoperability. • Partner with Data Product teams, Business Data Owners, Enterprise D&A, and Analytics teams to shape domain use cases, clarify data requirements, and support enterprise-level use cases where applicable. • Provide architectural guidance on the selection, configuration, and implementation of data p