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IT Career Path#

The job level will become increasingly more complex and unclear as you
progress thru your career. This means that you can start with a lot of
guidance and help. You will not have to carry the weight of
resonsibilities and in turn we ask you to not take decisions without
checking back. As you progress thru your career, you will carry more
responsibilities and in turn you can take more decisions without
checking back. We will trust you in your decision making abilities and
we will trust you bring in peers from other areas as you see fit.

Entry Level#

Label                     Level
------------------------- -------
Lead / Mentor             ---
Scope of Responsibility   ---
Job Ambiguity             ---
Job Complexity            ---

Description#

  1. You are new to the workforce.
  2. You will take care of well-defined tasks that
    carry no or little risk.
  3. Your work will be to familiarize yourself with routine tasks
    and minimize error levels or recognize error situations.
  4. You will not have to work without guidance or supervision
  5. You will not have responsibility roles
  6. You will receive regular formal training

--

  1. We do not expect you to fix error situations or analyze complex
    situations if you encounter this situation we will guide you and
    provide help.
  2. We are happy if you do reach out to analyze situations and will
    help you in progressing your knowledge and skill level.
  3. Everyone makes mistakes, as an Entry Level and you will never be
    responsible for your mistakes, we consider this a failure on our
    side and gave you a task that is outside of your level of expertise.
  4. We will provide an adequate training plan for you
  5. We want you to work in a safe environment and will provide full
    guidance     at every step.

Junior Level#

+-------------------------+-------+
| Label                   | Level |
+=========================+=======+
| Lead / Mentor           | -     |
+-------------------------+-------+
| Scope of Responsibility | ---   |
+-------------------------+-------+
| Job Ambiguity           | ---   |
+-------------------------+-------+
| Job Complexity          | ➕    |
+-------------------------+-------+

Description#

  1. You have collected some experience in the workforce.
  2. You will receive well-defined tasks that carry some risk.
  3. You will be able to work on well-known tasks and recognize where you
    have a development potential for new topics.
  4. You can work without supervision or guidance and you will be able
    to make good decisions when to ask for help, supervision or guidance
  5. You will not have responsibility roles
  6. You will receive regular formal training and be able to influence
    your training plan

--

  1. We do not expect you to fix errors, or analyze complex situations,
    that were caused by others.
  2. We are happy if you approach your peers to help out or learn how
    to analyze unknown situation or fix error situations not caused by
    you
  3. We do expect you to fix error situations that happened during your
    own work.
  4. We will provide an adequate training plan for you and allow for
    options that you are especially interested in
  5. We want you to work in a safe environment and will provide some
    guidance to help you progress your career

Staff Level#

Label                     Level
------------------------- -------
Lead / Mentor             ---
Scope of Responsibility   ---
Job Ambiguity             ➕
Job Complexity            ➕

Description#

  1. You have experience in the workforce.
  2. You will receive tasks that carry risk.
  3. You will be able to work on well-known tasks and learn about new
    topics in a self-guided way.
  4. You will be able to choose tasks for your Entry Level or Junior
    Level colleague that they can finish successfully or without help
    when given appropriate guidance.
  5. You are taking the first steps towards a responsibility role.
  6. In this role you will be able to take care of a system including all
    its components for the whole lifecycle. You will be able to
    influence local systems and take care of their availability. This
    includes domain specific1 and organizational tasks.

--

  1. We do expect you to be able to help peers with less experience to
    analyze error situations and help them fix these situations.
  2. We expect you to be able to work with peers outside of your team
    and propose solutions that are aligned with teams or colleagues
    from your division.
  3. We will provide guidance on networking with your peers, aligning
    with a broader community and communicating with colleagues outside
    of your domain.
  4. We are happy if you start reaching out to peers with less experience
    and give instructions on how to resolve specific situations
  5. We do not expect you to teach or train your peers in formal
    trainings.

Profile#

  1. can work without supervision
  2. can have one responsibility role

--

  1. can learn new topics
  2. can analyze complex situations but must not be able to resolve them
    without help

Development#

  1. will receive some formal training
  2. will be able to influence the training plain

Senior Level#

Label                     Level
------------------------- -------
Lead / Mentor             ➖/➕
Scope of Responsibility   ➕
Job Ambiguity             ➕
Job Complexity            ➕

Description#

  1. You are an exprienced member of the workforce.
  2. You will not receive tasks from peers [instead]{#instead}_ you can
    choose your own tasks and we trust that you will take care of
    chores without needing guidance.
  3. You will regularly work on tasks that carry risk and review work
    from your less experienced colleagues.
  4. You will teach less experienced colleagues in formal trainings and
    you are able to choose the right-sized tasks for them.
  5. You are able to carry out any task of your domain.
  6. You are a member of the broader community of your domain.
  7. In this role you will be assigned to take care of a system
    [including]{#including}_ all its components for the whole
    lifecycle. You will be able to influence local systems and take
    care of their availability. This includes domain specific2 and
    organizational tasks.

--

  1. We expect you to help your peers if they need to fix an error or
    analyze a situation.
  2. We expect you to provide some mentorship as part of your daily
    routine

and make sure that your colleagues will work on the right topics to
help them and lift their skills to a new level.

Profile#

  1. can work without supervision
  2. can have one or more responsibility roles

--

  1. can learn new topics
  2. can teach others
  3. can analyze and resolve complex situations in detail

Principal#

Label                     Level
------------------------- -------
Lead / Mentor             ➕
Scope of Responsibility   ➕
Job Ambiguity             ➕
Job Complexity            ➕➕

Description#

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Profile#

  • can work without supervision
  • can have one or more responsibility roles

--

  • can learn new topics
  • can teach others
  • can analyze and resolve complex situations in detail

Senior Principal#

Label                     Level
------------------------- -------
Lead / Mentor             ➕
Scope of Responsibility   ➕➕
Job Ambiguity             ➕➕
Job Complexity            ➕➕

Consulting#

Label                     Level
------------------------- --------
Lead / Mentor             ➕
Scope of Responsibility   ➕➕
Job Ambiguity             ➕➕➕
Job Complexity            ➕➕➕

Distinguished#

Label                     Level
------------------------- --------
Lead / Mentor             ➕➕
Scope of Responsibility   ➕➕➕
Job Ambiguity             🌐🌐🌐
Job Complexity            🌐🌐🌐

Fellow#

Label                     Level
------------------------- --------
Lead / Mentor             🌐🌐🌐
Scope of Responsibility   🌐🌐🌐
Job Ambiguity             🌐🌐🌐
Job Complexity            🌐🌐🌐

Footnotes#

  1. IT this means technical hands on tasks like: operating system,
    network and application configuration, scripting, programming and
    system design. ↩

  2. IT this means technical hands on tasks like: operating system,
    network and application configuration, scripting, programming and
    system design. ↩