People
Teams ¶
Reporting lines are anchored around technology disciplines. The following teams report into the CTO. Operationally people tend to work in squads as detailed in the Delivery section.
- Product Engineering
- Builds the apps, microservices, libraries and web frontends
- Architecture
- A small team that guides teams to design their own architectures
- Cyber Security & Risk
- Keeps our systems safe and secure
- Data & ML
- Provides data and BI solutions
- Cloud Infrastructure
- Builds, runs and scales our cloud infra
- Corporate IT
- Manages our workspace technology
Careers ¶
The different career levels for people in Technology.
| # | Individual Contributor | People Leader |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Associate Engineer | |
| 2 | Engineer | |
| 3 | Senior Engineer | |
| 4 | Staff Engineer | Team Lead |
| 5 | Principal Engineer | Engineering Manager |
| 6 | Head | |
| 7 | Chief |
Career pathways can go:
- Vertical, e.g. Engineer to Senior Engineer
- Horizontal, e.g. Staff Engineer to Team Lead
- Diagonally, e.g. Principal Engineer to Head
Other roles such as Data Scientist, are levelled in the same way, except “Engineer” is replaced with that domain-specific title.
Responsibilities ¶
- ‘✅’ – focus areas for each role
- ’–’ – optional areas for each role
| Individual Contributors | People Leaders | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KRAs | Associate Engineer | Engineer | Senior Engineer | Staff Engineer | Principal Engineer | Team Lead | Engineering Manager | Head |
| Build | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | – | – |
| Test | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | – | – |
| Own | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | – | – |
| Improve | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | – | – | |
| Support | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | – | – | |
| Design | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | – | – | ||
| Estimate | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | – | – | ||
| Tech SME | ✅ | ✅ | – | – | – | |||
| Business SME | ✅ | – | – | – | ||||
| Architect systems | ✅ | – | – | – | ||||
| Line manage people | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |||||
| Manage SDLC | ✅ | ✅ | ||||||
| Lead multiple teams | ✅ | ✅ | ||||||
| Lead change | ✅ | ✅ | ||||||
| Manage budgets | ✅ | ✅ | ||||||
| Strategy | ✅ | |||||||
| Risk and compliance | ✅ | |||||||
| Governance | ✅ |
Talent ¶
When to use what type of talent?
Permanent ¶
We always prefer to hire permanent staff and provide them a career pathway.
Contractors ¶
Contractors are great for defined pieces of work and fixed deadlines. They give teams breathing space whilst they recruit a permanent team member. Only experts (senior or above) are considered as they need to start running on day one.
Consultants ¶
Consultants are used where a larger piece of work is to be completed that requires multiple resources for which we don’t have the skill set. For example an Infra architectural review.