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| # SFIA Role Guidance: Lead Software Engineer | |
| [SFIA Level 5: Ensure, Advise](https://sfia-online.org/en/sfia-7/responsibilities/level-5) | |
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| ## Summary of role | |
| Leads teams to deliver digital, data and technology outcomes that improve society. They do this by establishing and leading teams to deliver software in public sector organisations. | |
| ## Required competency for role | |
| ### Autonomy | |
| Accountable for workstream to customers, partners, account team, delivery assurance team and other stakeholders from a technical and delivery perspective. | |
| ### Influence | |
| Drives workstream team towards technical excellence by influencing team, customers and partners. | |
| ### Complexity | |
| Manages complex technical change of a workstream within a wider programme of work in multi-organisation stakeholder environments. | |
| ### Knowledge | |
| Develops a deep understanding of digital and technology landscape in UK public sector. | |
| ### Business Skills | |
| Demonstrates leadership. Communicates effectively, both formally and informally. | |
| ## Examples of behaviours and responsibilities | |
| Below are examples of behaviours and responsibilities a person in this role might be expected to demonstrate. The list is provided for illustrative purposes only. | |
| - Represents or delegates responsibility for representing workstream to customers, partners, account team, delivery assurance team and other stakeholders from a technical and sometimes delivery perspective | |
| - Coaches Senior Engineers within the workstream team and/or customer staff, providing continuous feedback to individuals and their line managers, and supporting line managers to find career progression opportunities | |
| - Able to lead bootup and delivery of a product workstream where outcomes are known, and the product is complicated rather than complex | |
| - Able to work as part of a leadership team (with delivery and product support) in a bootup and delivery of a product workstream where outcomes are unknown, and the product is complex | |
| - Able to work as part of a workstream team (with account and business support) in a bootup of a new account | |
| - Able to contribute within the account team in non-strategic accounts | |
| - Able to lead, advise and support up to two workstreams and ultimately be responsible for delivery of outcomes across their workstreams | |
| - Able to synthesise outcomes with senior stakeholders by facilitating inception and discovery work | |
| - Proactively identifies reputational and commercial risks and takes responsibility for mitigations and corrective actions | |
| - Ensures all technical staff in their workstream are operating at a good performance level at minimum, identifying performance issues and supporting correct action where necessary | |
| - Ensures their workstream team is operating in line with technical and delivery principles, and working towards technical excellence. Reports to the delivery assurance and account team | |
| - Builds relationships with senior customer stakeholders, maintains them and leverages those relationships in their work to influence, challenge and support technical practices and strategy | |
| - Works with customers, partners, account and workstream team to ensure workstream aligned with technical practices and strategy of customer organisation | |
| - Regularly influences and supports improvement of technical practices within a customer’s organisation at a community of practice or organisational level | |
| - Turns technical and delivery obstacles into opportunities for improvement and betterment of practices, and can lead a team to turn these opportunities into positive organisational impacts | |
| - Influences direction and day-to-day running of the account | |
| - Has overall technical authority within their workstreams | |
| - Influences organisation-wide approach to technology as part of the technology leadership team | |
| - Able to build relationships with senior customer and partner stakeholders, both technical and otherwise | |
| - Works with customers to define outcomes, deadlines and budgets | |
| - Has significant influence over the scheduling of technical staff to workstreams | |
| - Likely is the most senior day-to-day representative of Made Tech within the account | |
| - Ensures users’ needs are met consistently through each work stage | |
| - Influences the technology industry by engaging at public events | |
| - Able to architect and coordinate wide scale changes across multiple applications and platforms | |
| - Can design migration strategies in legacy environments and coordinate others to deliver | |
| - Can navigate complex stakeholder and organisational environments | |
| - Able to support and manage multiple workstreams, while delivering within one or more of those workstreams | |
| - Able to coordinate and manage supplier, partner and customer staff alongside Made Tech | |
| - Able to lead hiring interviews for Engineer 1 to Lead Engineer candidates | |