L2 Engineer Evaluation Workbook

L2 Senior Engineer — Promotion & Performance Evaluation Workbook

Scoring scale: 0–5 (decimals allowed)

Practice Summary

Guild	Management Practice	Criteria	Self Score (%)	Assessor Score (%)	Delta (%)
Executive Guild	Strategy Management	1	—	—	—
Executive Guild	Values Alignment	3	—	—	—
Executive Guild	Vision & Mission Alignment	1	—	—	—
Sales Guild	Stakeholder Engagement	3	—	—	—
Delivery Guild	Business Analysis	3	—	—	—
Delivery Guild	Consulting Management	3	—	—	—
Delivery Guild	Forward Deployed Engineering	4	—	—	—
Delivery Guild	Project Management	3	—	—	—
Delivery Guild	User Experience	3	—	—	—
Technology Guild	Agentic Engineering	4	—	—	—
Technology Guild	Application Architecture	2	—	—	—
Technology Guild	Data Engineering	3	—	—	—
Technology Guild	DevOps Management	3	—	—	—
Technology Guild	Platform Architecture	4	—	—	—
Technology Guild	Security Engineering	3	—	—	—
Technology Guild	Software Engineering	4	—	—	—
Administration Guild	HR Management	3	—	—	—
Administration Guild	Knowledge Management	1	—	—	—

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Detailed Criteria

Executive Guild

Strategy Management

ID	Criterion	Self Score	Assessment Score
L2-STM01	Applies Calab’s strategic priorities when making workstream decisions — technology choices, effort allocation, reuse over rebuild — and can explain the link.	___	___

Values Alignment

ID	Criterion	Self Score	Assessment Score
L2-VAL01	**Trust** — is the engineer clients and colleagues rely on: realistic commitments, transparent status, and full ownership of outcomes including failures.	___	___
L2-VAL02	**Impact** — prioritises their workstream by business value, challenges low-value work, and can evidence the outcomes their features delivered.	___	___
L2-VAL03	**Innovation** — introduces improvements that others adopt — techniques, tools, patterns — and shares them beyond their own team.	___	___

Vision & Mission Alignment

ID	Criterion	Self Score	Assessment Score
L2-VMA01	Connects their workstream’s decisions to Calab’s mission — articulates how the solution transforms the client’s legacy operations and gives people time back.	___	___

Sales Guild

Stakeholder Engagement

ID	Criterion	Self Score	Assessment Score
L2-SGM01	Runs client-facing sessions — demos, workshops, standups — for their workstream confidently, adapting technical depth to the audience.	___	___
L2-SGM02	Manages client expectations on scope and timelines for their feature areas, negotiating small changes without escalation.	___	___
L2-SGM03	Spots signals in client conversations — pain points, expansion opportunities, relationship risks — and routes them to the account owner.	___	___

Delivery Guild

Business Analysis

ID	Criterion	Self Score	Assessment Score
L2-BAM01	Elicits requirements for their feature areas directly with client users — asks the follow-up question, documents decisions and rationale.	___	___
L2-BAM02	Analyses the business context — process, data, users — well enough to challenge requirements that won’t achieve the outcome.	___	___
L2-BAM03	Writes acceptance criteria that are testable and unambiguous, agreed with the client before build starts.	___	___

Consulting Management

ID	Criterion	Self Score	Assessment Score
L2-CM01	Advises clients credibly within their technical domain — presents options with trade-offs and a recommendation, not just answers.	___	___
L2-CM02	Manages their own utilisation and priorities across engagement demands, renegotiating commitments before they slip.	___	___
L2-CM03	Contributes to engagement health beyond their own tasks — spots delivery risks, improves ways of working, supports newer team members.	___	___

Forward Deployed Engineering

ID	Criterion	Self Score	Assessment Score
L2-FDE01	Maps and analyses the client’s as-is business process for their workstream, and designs the to-be process the solution enables — agreed with the client before build.	___	___
L2-FDE02	Designs and delivers end-to-end solution slices in the client’s environment — data flow, integrations, workflow changes — composing platform capabilities robustly.	___	___
L2-FDE03	Runs short build-measure-learn loops with end users: ships working increments early, measures whether the business outcome moved, and adjusts course.	___	___
L2-FDE04	Feeds field learnings back into Calab’s reusable assets — patterns, accelerators, product backlog — so solutions compound across clients.	___	___

Project Management

ID	Criterion	Self Score	Assessment Score
L2-PM01	Plans and sequences their workstream — breaks features into milestones, estimates, and keeps the plan current as things change.	___	___
L2-PM02	Coordinates dependencies for their workstream across team members and other teams, unblocking or escalating promptly.	___	___
L2-PM03	Reports progress against plan crisply — status, risks, decisions needed — in the project’s rhythm without prompting.	___	___

User Experience

ID	Criterion	Self Score	Assessment Score
L2-UXD01	Designs usable workflows for the features they own — task flows, states, error handling — validating them with real users before build completes.	___	___
L2-UXD02	Runs lightweight usability checks — observation sessions, feedback reviews, analytics — and turns findings into concrete improvements.	___	___
L2-UXD03	Ensures features they ship meet accessibility and responsiveness standards, catching issues before clients do.	___	___

Technology Guild

Agentic Engineering

ID	Criterion	Self Score	Assessment Score
L2-AIE01	Decomposes feature work into well-scoped tasks for coding agents, runs them effectively — context, guardrails, iteration — and critically reviews output before merge.	___	___
L2-AIE02	Builds and maintains reusable context assets — prompts, instruction files, skills, MCP configs — that raise the whole team’s agent effectiveness.	___	___
L2-AIE03	Designs lightweight evaluations — test harnesses, spot-check protocols, regression suites — to verify the quality of AI-generated output.	___	___
L2-AIE04	Integrates LLM capabilities — APIs, retrieval, structured output — into solution features, handling non-determinism, cost, and failure modes.	___	___

Application Architecture

ID	Criterion	Self Score	Assessment Score
L2-AAM01	Designs improvements to Calab’s internal application architecture — integrations, automations, data flows across PM, service, accounting, and document systems — documenting trade-offs.	___	___
L2-AAM02	Owns an internal system integration end-to-end: keeps it reliable, monitored, and documented so others can operate it.	___	___

Data Engineering

ID	Criterion	Self Score	Assessment Score
L2-DAT01	Builds reliable data pipelines and transformations for their workstream, with idempotency, error handling, and monitoring.	___	___
L2-DAT02	Designs fit-for-purpose data models for features they own, documenting structure and trade-offs.	___	___
L2-DAT03	Implements data-quality checks — validation rules, reconciliation, alerts — so bad data is caught before it reaches consumers.	___	___

DevOps Management

ID	Criterion	Self Score	Assessment Score
L2-DVO01	Maintains and improves CI/CD pipelines for repos they own — adds stages, speeds up feedback, keeps them green.	___	___
L2-DVO02	Implements observability for features they ship — logging, metrics, alerts — sufficient for someone else to diagnose issues.	___	___
L2-DVO03	Leads diagnosis and resolution of incidents in their workstream, communicating status and following up with prevention actions.	___	___

Platform Architecture

ID	Criterion	Self Score	Assessment Score
L2-PAM01	Makes sound component-level design decisions — libraries, data stores, service boundaries — within platform guardrails, documenting trade-offs.	___	___
L2-PAM02	Contributes improvements to shared platform assets — templates, reference implementations, IaC modules — used beyond their own project.	___	___
L2-PAM03	Evaluates emerging tools or services relevant to their workstream and presents findings with a recommendation.	___	___
L2-PAM04	Designs and maintains the infrastructure-as-code for the solutions they own — modular, reviewed, and reproducible across environments.	___	___

Security Engineering

ID	Criterion	Self Score	Assessment Score
L2-SEC01	Threat-models the features they design — attack surfaces, data exposure, authentication and authorisation needs — before building.	___	___
L2-SEC02	Remediates vulnerabilities across their workstream — dependencies, misconfigurations, code flaws — verifying fixes and preventing recurrence.	___	___
L2-SEC03	Configures pipeline security tooling — SAST, dependency scanning, secret scanning — for repos they own, keeping the signal actionable.	___	___

Software Engineering

ID	Criterion	Self Score	Assessment Score
L2-SEM01	Designs and delivers production-ready changes spanning multiple components, with minimal rework after review.	___	___
L2-SEM02	Designs automated test coverage — unit, integration, regression — for features they own, and closes coverage gaps they find.	___	___
L2-SEM03	Performs constructive code reviews that catch real defects and coach L0–L1 engineers on standards.	___	___
L2-SEM04	Refactors and pays down technical debt within their workstream, keeping changes safe through tests and incremental delivery.	___	___

Administration Guild

HR Management

ID	Criterion	Self Score	Assessment Score
L2-HRM01	Maintains accurate time and leave records without prompting, flagging allocation issues — wrong codes, over- or under-recording — to their lead early.	___	___
L2-HRM02	Coordinates their leave and availability around delivery milestones for work they own, arranging cover and handover so nothing stalls.	___	___
L2-HRM03	Drives their own development plan — sets goals with their career coach, gathers evidence as they go, and completes required training without chasing.	___	___

Knowledge Management

ID	Criterion	Self Score	Assessment Score
L2-KNM01	Keeps the handbook pages their work touches current — updates stale content and prompts teammates to capture learnings from shared work.	___	___