Actively maintains knowledge in one or more identifiable specialisms.
Provides detailed and specific advice regarding the application of their specialism(s) to the organisation’s planning and operations.
Recognises and identifies the boundaries of their own specialist knowledge.
Collaborates with other specialists, where appropriate, to ensure advice given is appropriate to the needs of the organisation.
Supports monitoring of the external environment and assessment of emerging technologies to evaluate the potential impacts, threats and opportunities to the organisation.
Contributes to the creation of reports, technology roadmapping and the sharing of
knowledge and insights.
Requirement and Definition Management
Defines and manages scoping, requirements definition and prioritisation activities for smallscale changes and assists with more complex change initiatives.
Follows agreed standards, applying appropriate techniques to elicit and document detailed requirements.
Provides constructive challenge to stakeholders as required.
Prioritises requirements and documents traceability to source.
Reviews requirements for errors and omissions.
Provides input to the requirements base-line.
Investigates, manages and applies authorised requests for changes to base-lined
requirements, in line with change management policy.
Software design
Designs software components and modules using appropriate modelling techniques
following agreed software design standards, patterns and methodology.
Creates and communicates multiple design views to identify and balance the concerns of all stakeholders of the software design and to allow for both functional and non-functional requirements.
Identifies and evaluates alternative design options and trade-offs.
Recommends designs which take into account target environment, performance security
requirements and existing systems.
Reviews, verifies and improves own designs against specifications. Leads reviews of others’ designs.
Models, simulates or prototypes the behaviour of proposed software to enable approval by stakeholders, and effective construction of the software.
Verifies software design by constructing and applying appropriate methods.
Programming/software development
Designs, codes, verifies, tests, documents, amends and refactors complex programs/scripts and integration software services.
Contributes to selection of the software development approach for projects, selecting
appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile)
approaches.
Applies agreed standards and tools, to achieve well-engineered outcomes.
Participates in reviews of own work and leads reviews of colleagues’ work.
Database design
Develops and maintains specialist knowledge of database and data warehouse concepts,
design principles, architectures, software and facilities.
Assesses proposed changes to object/data structures, in order to evaluate alternative
options.
Implements physical database designs to support transactional data requirements for
performance and availability.
Implements data warehouse designs that support demands for business intelligence and
data analytics.