Technical Learning Program Architect

Location: Raleigh, NC 27606

Work Arrangement: 100% On-Site

Duration: 6 Months, with potential extension based on performance and business needs

Role Overview Develop the architecture and implementation roadmap for a training and development program supporting onboarding, early-career development, new employee development, and management development across technical operating units. Leverage existing competency models and technical training content; creation of new technical training content is out of scope.

Key Responsibilities

• Define the Training & Development Program (TDP) lifecycle from onboarding through retirement.
• Inventory existing training materials, technical documentation, job aids, tools, and knowledge assets.
• Conduct gap, needs, duplication, accessibility, and risk analysis and prioritize improvement opportunities.
• Facilitate sessions with technical SMEs, leaders, HR, and Learning & Development teams to gather requirements.
• Design learning architectures, role-based curricula, onboarding pathways, proficiency milestones, assessments, and delivery methods.
• Ensure learning architecture meets applicable ISO 9001 requirements.
• Establish content standards, templates, repository structure, ownership, version control, review cycles, and governance.
• Pilot priority learning pathways, collect feedback, and refine the program.
• Use approved AI tools responsibly for content discovery, classification, gap analysis, curriculum mapping, drafting, and quality review, with SME validation.
• Transfer methodology, tools, and governance processes to internal owners.

Key Deliverables

• TDP lifecycle and current-state content inventory.
• Training and capability gap analysis.
• Learning roadmaps for new employees, early-career employees, managers, and high-potential/future-leader groups.
• Role-based curriculum and learning pathway maps.
• Phased implementation roadmap with priorities, dependencies, owners, and success measures.
• Pilot-ready learning pathway.
• Content standards, SME templates, repository structure, and governance model.
• Knowledge-transfer and handoff package.

Required Qualifications

• Significant experience in learning architecture, curriculum strategy, instructional design, technical enablement, or corporate learning.
• Experience building structured learning programs, academies, onboarding curricula, or technical learning ecosystems.
• Strong experience with needs analysis, content inventory, curriculum mapping, learning-path design, assessment strategy, and program evaluation.
• Experience working with SMEs and translating complex technical knowledge into practical learning experiences.
• Ability to lead discovery, design, stakeholder reviews, pilots, and implementation planning.
• Knowledge of adult learning, blended learning, accessibility, inclusive design, and content governance.
• Proficiency with modern learning, authoring, collaboration, content-management, and learning-platform tools.
• Experience using Generative AI in learning/training environments with appropriate validation and responsible-use practices.
• Excellent consulting, facilitation, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Bachelor s degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting engineering, manufacturing, energy, technology, or other technical workforces.
• Experience designing learning programs for employees and third-party workers with different access or compliance requirements.
• Portfolio demonstrating learning architecture, curriculum maps, onboarding programs, or academy design.