L4 Engineer Evaluation Workbook

L4 Senior Lead Engineer — Promotion & Performance Evaluation Workbook

Scoring scale: 0–5 (decimals allowed)

Practice Summary

Guild	Management Practice	Criteria	Self Score (%)	Assessor Score (%)	Delta (%)
Sales Guild	Stakeholder Engagement Management	4	—	—	—
Delivery Guild	Business Analysis Management	7	—	—	—
Delivery Guild	Consulting Management	8	—	—	—
Delivery Guild	Project Management	3	—	—	—
Technology Guild	Platform Architecture Management	4	—	—	—
Technology Guild	Software Engineering Management	6	—	—	—
Technology Guild	Solution Engineering Management	9	—	—	—

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Detailed Criteria

Sales Guild

Stakeholder Engagement Management

ID	Criterion	Self Score	Assessment Score
L4-SGM01	Has defined authority and responsibility for a significant area of work, including technical and quality aspects.	___	___
L4-SGM02	Is accountable for actions and decisions taken by self and team members.	___	___
L4-SGM03	Influences policy formation for development and design practises. Makes decisions which impact the practice achievement of organisational objectives and financial performance.	___	___
L4-SGM05	Contributes to the formulation and implementation of specific aspects of IT strategy. Creatively applies a wide range of technical and/or solution principles.	___	___

Delivery Guild

Business Analysis Management

ID	Criterion	Self Score	Assessment Score
L4-BAM01	Leads and manages the creation and execution of program level budgets, execution strategy and scope.	___	___
L4-BAM02	Discusses program level execution strategy, scope and budget with the customer and directs programs be to able to be implemented on time and budget without sacrificing quality	___	___
L4-BAM03	Actively seeks and creates opportunities for further work within the customer business.	___	___
L4-BAM04	Prescribes applicable standards, methods, tools and applications to consultant teams.	___	___
L4-BAM05	Constantly at the forefront of new technologies and their application and leads the development of productivity tools and assets. Leads the creation of new development processes and practices.	___	___
L4-BAM06	Selects and refines development processes and practices for projects.	___	___
L4-BAM07	Leads creation of specific assets for the practice portfolio.	___	___

Consulting Management

ID	Criterion	Self Score	Assessment Score
L4-CM01	Provides support and a review point for other architects. Is constantly aware of trends in technology, standards and development techniques and distributes this/her information to other consultants.	___	___
L4-CM02	Is thought of as a leader in the organisation, constantly advocating for consultants on many fronts. Delivers insightful and innovative presentations internally and to public user groups.	___	___
L4-CM03	Has strong relationship with the Principal Consultants, Service Delivery staff and Engagement Managers. Consultants feel comfortable in using you to escalate issues to these teams.	___	___
L4-CM04	Engage in conversation with other consultants, spreading.	___	___
L4-CM05	Excellent interpersonal communication skills.	___	___
L4-CM06	Assists/advices Account Director with shaping pieces of work. Provide heavy pre-sales support for opportunities that focus on a wide range of technologies and challenges Proactively seeks new opportunities, creating and introducing contacts across existing and new customers.	___	___
L4-CM07	Develops influential relationships with internal and external customers and partners at senior management level, including industry leaders.	___	___
L4-CM08	Constantly identifies business value and cases across engagements, working closely with Account Directors to transform into opportunities.	___	___

Project Management

ID	Criterion	Self Score	Assessment Score
L4-PM01	Actively leads specific capability area alignment for cross-practice initiatives and artefacts	___	___
L4-PM02	Evidence of significant contribution to be seen as an internal and external subject matter expert, with track record of contribution to pre-sales, sales and external forums. 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.	___	___
L4-PM03	four new topics per year on forums, and/or two internal live presentation every year, and/or one external user group presentation every year, and/or ownership of a technical area e.g. presenting at one external event every 18 months, and/or contribution to pre-sales meetings presenting CA Labs offerings	___	___

Technology Guild

Platform Architecture Management

ID	Criterion	Self Score	Assessment Score
L4-PAM01	Works closely with, collaborates and advises internal architecture teams. Advise team leads on aligning design and architecture of solutions to existing enterprise risk management plans. Understands and provides guidance around Business Architecture.	___	___
L4-PAM02	Broad and deep knowledge of the architecture of most Microsoft suites, platforms and offerings.	___	___
L4-PAM03	Can describe and document guidelines for integration of process and data across an entire enterprise and many application domains.	___	___
L4-PAM04	Can integrate existing or new capabilities and offerings into an architecture.	___	___

Software Engineering Management

ID	Criterion	Self Score	Assessment Score
L4-SEM01	Helps others problem solve difficult development issues.	___	___
L4-SEM02	Develops standards for architecture and design, code, testing and documentation.	___	___
L4-SEM03	Understands how solutions fit into the overall enterprise architecture of an organisation.	___	___
L4-SEM04	Is the “go-to” person for resolving highly complex and difficult development and design problems.	___	___
L4-SEM05	Has thought leader level knowledge and experience in resolving complex design and development problems in many technology groups.	___	___
L4-SEM06	Has attained formal accreditation across a number of technologies in the form of certificates, MVP/VTS awards or other.	___	___

Solution Engineering Management

ID	Criterion	Self Score	Assessment Score
L4-SOL01	Demonstrated experience in the design and implementation of highly complex distributed applications. Can design solution components that align with an organisation’s preferred architecture.	___	___
L4-SOL02	Plays an active role in the review and revision of complex solutions across engagements.	___	___
L4-SOL03	Runs application modelling workshops, involving other consultants both internal and external.	___	___
L4-SOL04	Understand the fundamental infrastructure design principles.	___	___
L4-SOL05	Quickly builds business function domain knowledge and disseminates across team.	___	___
L4-SOL06	Creates internal Technical Quality assets. Reviews design patterns, industry standards and development practices for team leads	___	___
L4-SOL07	Has a deep understanding of the common challenges of a number of industries (e.g. Financial services, state government, Resources) Identifies and formalises standard processes and design pattern across an engagement.	___	___
L4-SOL08	Can build high quality road maps for technology, people and process adoption.	___	___
L4-SOL09	Leads and defines the review process for design patterns, industry standards and development practices for teams across the organisation.	___	___