Example job roles: Senior Solution Architecture, Senior Technical Leadership, Technical Services Management, Design Principal, Head of functional area
Level: SeniorÌý
Experiences
Activities and responsibilities likely to be required when working at this level
- Managing a team
- Validating designs
- Setting standards
- Setting goals and strategies
- Collaborative working with other technologies and areas
- Horizon scanning
- A good level of sector experience
- Working with others outsideÌýof the organisation
- Managing budgetary responsibilities
- Working on complex/high impact activities
- Influencing senior stakeholders whether in ISD or in other areas of °×С½ãÂÛ̳
- Contributing to the strategic direction of ISD as a department
- Participating as a member of architectural working groupsÌý
Personal and professional development
Development options to consider when working towards this level
Learning on the job
- Designing and introducing a new service
- Project technical leadership
- Taking on a service operations manager role
- Looking for secondment opportunities
- Developing service improvement plans.
- Technical leadership of a project
Learning from othersÌýÌý
- Leading a Community of Practice (CoP)
- Membership of the architecture sub-groups
- Conference attendance and presentations
- Maintaining networks
Formal learning
- Appropriate technical accreditation e.g. Microsoft, Cisco, Oracle, VM Ware
- Methodological e.g. PRINCE2, Scrum, Agile, ITIL
- TOGAF, Archimate.
Transferable skills and competencies
°×С½ãÂÛ̳ uses the Universal Competency Framework (UCF) to discuss transferable skills. Find out moreÌýdetails on the framework.
Relating and Networking
- Building rapport
- Networking
- Relating across levels
- Managing conflict
- Using humour
Formulating strategies and concepts
- Thinking broadly
- Approaching work strategically
- Setting and developing strategy
- Visioning
Leading and supervising
- Providing direction and co-ordinating action
- Supervising and monitoring behaviour
- Coaching
- Delegating
- Empowering staff
- Motivating others
- Developing staff
- Identifying and recruiting talent
°×С½ãÂÛ̳ Ways of Working
These describe expected behaviours in line with °×С½ãÂÛ̳ culture and values.Ìý For Ways of Working indicators and steps to development please refer to theÌýWays of Working website.Ìý
“Career Pathway roles are indicative and are not intended to be a description of the role in terms of responsibilty and duties.