L5 Principal Engineer — Delivery Guild Cross-Guild Criteria

These criteria define what the Delivery Guild expects from a Principal Engineer (L5) who is primarily a Technology Guild role. They are authored and governed by the Delivery Guild.

Consulting Management

IDCriterion
L5-CM01Advances the knowledge and/or exploitation of IT within one or more organisations.
L5-CM02Has a full range of strategic management and leadership skills.
L5-CM03Understands, explains and presents complex technical ideas to both technical and non-technical audiences at all levels up to the highest in a persuasive and convincing manner. Assesses the impact of legislation, and actively promotes compliance. Takes the initiative to keep both own and subordinates’ skills up to date and to maintain an awareness of developments in IT.

Project Management

IDCriterion
L5-PM01Is responsible for cross-practice alignment of solution sets, standards and methodologies
L5-PM02Evidence of being recognised as a trusted adviser by multiple major customers, partners or industry bodies, with track record of influencing bodies of work at major customers and frequent contribution to external events. Contribution can be facilitated through forums such as Yammer, Blogs, The Juice, Practice Meetings, Tech Talks, Mid-monthly meetings, conferences, external blogs and technical Forums.
L5-PM03six new topics per year on forums, and/or four internal live presentation every year, and/or two external user group presentation every year, and/or ownership of a technical area e.g. presenting at one external event every 12 months, and/or contribution to sales meetings presenting CA Labs offerings.

Business Analysis Management

IDCriterion
L5-BAM01Owns and manages the creation of practice assets, go to market offerings and strategy
L5-BAM02Leads and manages the creation and execution of program level budgets for strategic customers over multi-million dollar projects Leads strategic customer program execution strategy and scope.
L5-BAM03Discusses program level execution strategy, scope and budget with the customer executives and directs programs be to able to be implemented on time and budget without sacrificing quality.
L5-BAM04Actively seeks and creates opportunities for further work within the region.
L5-BAM05Leads on the formulation and implementation of strategy.
L5-BAM06Applies the highest level of management and leadership skills.