L2 Senior Engineer — Promotion & Performance Evaluation Workbook

Scoring scale: 0–5 (decimals allowed)

Practice Summary

GuildManagement PracticeCriteriaSelf Score (%)Assessor Score (%)Delta (%)
Sales GuildStakeholder Engagement Management4
Delivery GuildBusiness Analysis Management5
Delivery GuildConsulting Management5
Delivery GuildProject Management3
Technology GuildPlatform Architecture Management2
Technology GuildSoftware Engineering Management7
Technology GuildSolution Engineering Management6

Detailed Criteria

Sales Guild

Stakeholder Engagement Management

IDCriterionSelf ScoreAssessment Score
L2-SGM01Works under general direction within a clear framework of accountability. Acts as a team lead on smaller engagements taking ownership of the team tasks.______
L2-SGM02Exercises substantial personal responsibility and autonomy. Plans own work to meet given objectives and processes.______
L2-SGM03Demonstrates an analytical and systematic approach to problem solving.______
L2-SGM04Articulates problem triage process when seeking expert assistance______

Delivery Guild

Business Analysis Management

IDCriterionSelf ScoreAssessment Score
L2-BAM01Understands and manages project technical scope to align with the budget and time available.______
L2-BAM02Discusses project technical scope with the customer and directs feature scope be to able to be implemented on time and budget without sacrificing quality.______
L2-BAM03Seeks out opportunities for further work within the current workstreams business unit.______
L2-BAM04Utilises tools prescribed by direct supervisor and peers for there standard usage.______
L2-BAM05Works within provided framework of development processes and practices.______

Consulting Management

IDCriterionSelf ScoreAssessment Score
L2-CM01Provides mentoring and assistance to staff for technical capability, time management, work planning and problem solving. Excellent interpersonal communication skills.______
L2-CM02Perform the Team or Technical Lead role on a project.______
L2-CM03Can write clear functional specification documents for solution offerings across many technology streams OR in a specific technology stream related to the consultant’s core area of expertise.______
L2-CM04Can run design workshops with a blended team of technical staff OR can run client facing requirements gathering workshops for often unclear or broad technical areas. Can assist in requirements gathering workshops and write simple user stories.______
L2-CM05Helps other consultants submit leads to Account Directors. Able to relate well with all levels of staff management and stakeholders.______

Project Management

IDCriterionSelf ScoreAssessment Score
L2-PM01Actively contributes to practice alignment initiatives and artefacts.______
L2-PM02Adheres to and promotes CA Labs values to other team members and external people. Leads by example.______
L2-PM03Evidence of leading a technical project team and contribution to new topics on CA Labs internal forums such as Blogs, The Juice, Practice Meetings, Tech Talks, Mid-monthly meetings, User Group meetings or equivalent customer facing forums. At least 6 new topics per year on forums, or one Google Video recording per year or one internal live presentation every 2 years.______

Technology Guild

Platform Architecture Management

IDCriterionSelf ScoreAssessment Score
L2-PAM01Can read and understand standard physical, technology and logical architecture documents. Can read and understand how to apply standard business modelling documents such as Activity Models, Use-Case Models and Class models.______
L2-PAM02Can understand and apply architectural principles.______

Software Engineering Management

IDCriterionSelf ScoreAssessment Score
L2-SEM01Codes fixes, and documents large and complex systems and system enhancements from supplied requirements, using agreed standards and tools.______
L2-SEM02Takes part in reviews of own work and can conduct basic code reviews of others.______
L2-SEM03Writes moderately complex unit tests for developed components.______
L2-SEM04Assists other team members in resolving common development and design problems.______
L2-SEM05Understands the fundamentals of object oriented programming. Understands the fundamental principles of development and design of at least one technology group______
L2-SEM06Has strong knowledge and experience in resolving to common design and development problems in at least one technology group.______
L2-SEM07Holds at least two Microsoft certificate in a relevant technology.______

Solution Engineering Management

IDCriterionSelf ScoreAssessment Score
L2-SOL01Can read and understand standard design documents for complex solutions.______
L2-SOL02Can create task lists and estimates from standard design documents for complex solutions______
L2-SOL03Can create standard design documents for simple solutions.______
L2-SOL04Follows prescribed technical quality standards and practices and assists others in understanding these. Participates and assists others in development activities such as stand-up meetings and bug bashes.______
L2-SOL05Understands and can teach others how to use the prescribed source control solution. Understands the common challenges of at least one industry (e.g. Financial services, state government, Resources).______
L2-SOL06Can implement industry standard design patterns connected and complex development tasks.______