REMOTE Learning Architect (Contract)

CapeTalent•Indian Harbour Beach, FL

8d•Remote

About The Position

The REMOTE Learning Architect (Contract), Skills Strategy & Certification Readiness Specialist, is a senior individual contributor within the Learning Engagement and Platform Experiences (LEAP) team. This role owns the foundational skills infrastructure that powers everything the team builds — mapping every expert role to a certification readiness pathway, governing how skills are defined and tagged across content and platform, and building the taxonomy layer that will drive the Learner Graph and Career Marketplace. Our clients current expert skill landscape spans three disconnected frameworks: broad Craft Skills (5 competencies), over 1,600 granular OIT Subskills, and a proposed Critical Skills layer — applied inconsistently across business units with no coherent hierarchy connecting them. Manual skill-to-content mapping has been discontinued, leaving the existing taxonomy without active consumption. This role’s foundational mandate is to resolve that fragmentation: building a unified, hierarchical skill structure that maps every expert role to a clear, actionable set of skills and certification readiness pathways. This is a hands-on execution role. The person in this seat doesn’t just design the architecture — they build it. They work at the intersection of learning strategy, data, and platform, translating expert role requirements into structured skill frameworks that scale across the Academy. The work this role produces is foundational infrastructure. Done well, it unlocks personalization, powers cert revenue, and enables the Career Marketplace. Done poorly — or left undone — it would affect ABR (Attribute Based Routing), Quality Markers (Thrive Team) and many other downstream processes.

Requirements

5+ years of experience in skills strategy, learning architecture, workforce development, or talent management
Demonstrated experience designing, governing, or consolidating skills taxonomies, competency frameworks, or role architecture at scale
Strong systems thinking — ability to design structures that are rigorous, scalable, and usable by partnered teams
Experience navigating ambiguous, greenfield environments — building foundational frameworks where fragmented or inactive systems exist
Experience collaborating cross-functionally with product, engineering, people ops, and data teams
Ability to translate complex skills architecture into clear guidance for content, platform, and business partner

Nice To Haves

Experience in professional certification, credentialing, or CPE/CE compliance frameworks
Familiarity with LMS architecture, content metadata standards (e.g., xAPI, LTI), or skills data models; experience with skills management platforms (e.g., PoolParty, Workday Skills, Degreed)
Background in EdTech, professional services certification, or financial services workforce development
Exposure to ontology design, knowledge graphs, or multi-level skill hierarchy modeling
Experience driving cross-functional alignment on shared taxonomy standards across HR/People Ops, L&D, and platform teams

Responsibilities

Assess and synthesize three existing frameworks — Craft Skills (5 broad competencies), One Taxonomy Subskills (1,600+ granular skills), and Critical Skills (46 proposed) — into a unified hierarchy: refreshed Craft Skills as role-level competencies, Subskills as building blocks mapped to each Craft Skill
Define taxonomy structure, hierarchy, and naming conventions that scale across the Academy's
Ensure taxonomy aligns with role-based certification tracks, and powers content design decisions
Own the RTS (Ready to Serve Customers) certification framework — define what readiness means by role, level, and pathway
Build cert readiness pathways by role: what skills are required, in what sequence, at what depth
Partner with Learning Engagement and Credentialing teams to operationalize pathways on the platform
Ensure pathways are structured to support CPE/CE compliance requirements as the certification program matures
Define the skills data model that connects training activity to performance outcomes (the Learner Graph)
Partner with Platform Engineering and Analytics to ensure the taxonomy integrates with platform data infrastructure
Ensure taxonomy is structured to support career signal matching for Career Marketplace (FY28 target)
Design taxonomy to serve both individual learner journeys and B2B team intelligence use cases
Establish the taxonomy governance model: intake, review cadence, versioning, and deprecation
Define content tagging standards and partner with content, vendor, and platform teams to drive adoption
Maintain taxonomy as a living system — structured enough to be consistent, flexible enough to evolve with the business
Serve as the authority on skills definitions, resolving conflicts and ambiguities across stakeholders
Partner with People & Performance Talent Development on Craft Skills refresh; partner with the Academy on Subskill mapping
Collaborate with Platform Engineering and the OIA Migration workstream to ensure taxonomy is embedded in the unified platform from day one
Work with content teams and vendors to align on tagging standards and content metadata requirements
Represent the skills architecture perspective in prioritization decisions and planning conversations