TES Engineering Skills Matrix

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1		Technocrat					Architecture		Leadership			TES Community
2		Technical Skill	Frontend Development	Frontend Design/Styling	Software design	DevOps	Systems Thinking	Software Delivery	Business Analysis	Vision and Ownership	Mentoring/Enabling	Community Engagement	TES Engagement

3	Advanced	Advanced level knowledge in all the different JS patterns in place at TES	Advanced knowledge of multiple frontend frameworks	master CSS, influence standard bodies, invented hacks	Strong understanding of how to write maintainable software, rarely if ever makes mistakes that lead to poor maintainability	Deep operating system knowledge	Able to correctly balance delivery pressure with long term maintenance concerns	Understands a broad range of architectural options	Broad understanding of the dependencies/prioritization between different business areas	Communicates a difficult vision effectively	Able to coach and explain technical concepts to all levels	Keynote speaker at major industry conferences	Keeps track of all changes in github on a daily basis
4		Advanced level knowledge of JS and the libraries that we use	Is the author a succesful & popular library/framework	Able to achieve iterative design	Has strong opinions on software design regardless of implementation language	Able to do performance tuning across services and operating systems	Web security guru	Can drive an evolutionary architecture and maintain cohesiveness	Commercial awareness of value provided vs the budget available	Arbitrates difficult decisions without creating resentment	Able to provide effective, timely negative feedback that avoids conflict and negative feelings		Monitors business and technical dashboards to keep track of the health of TES technology
5		Author of successful & popular library/framework	Involved in standard committee/browser implementations	know about motion design and creating meaningful animations	Chooses the correct tool for the job; able to avoid the golden hammer fallacy	Debug and analyze performance and latency issues in a distributed world	Builds flexible monitoring that avoids false alarms and alerts on real system breakages	Designs and develops integration patterns	Able to break down unclear business needs in the smallest valuable piece of work		Builds responsible & trusted leaders
6		Contributes to core ECMAScript standards or NodeJS code	Advanced knowledge of web page performance and optimizations	able to develop a production ready design from scratch	Able to find poor software design and will automatically define a sensible roadmap to fix it	Deep understanding of the network stack	Able to use the data provided by their services to inform business decisions				Can coach other people to deal with difficult situations
7						Indepth understanding of system security					Builds teams values and behaviours to increase effectiveness
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11	Knowledgeable	In depth understanding of the basic building blocks of a TES service	Influences architectural design to ensure frontend compatibilty	Can build full blown prototypes	Avoids and guides team members away from software design pitfalls	In depth understanding of the shared tooling used at TES	Consistently implements effective monitoring and logging in their systems	Prevents technical debt buildup for a team	Able to express technical considerations revolving around prioritization	Communicates a vision effectively	Provides directive in difficult situations	Owns an open source project that TES depends on	Ensures builds across the engineering team are kept green
12		Very strong programming skills in JS	Capable of using many libraries/frameworks	Author complex SASS plugins/mixins	Able to do a large scale redesign	Strong understanding of how services are deployed in live	Strong understanding of web security	Builds a flexible architecture	Can work directly with the business to elicit prioritized work	Can drive a project from inception to delivery from a business perspective	Builds responsible & trusted people		Organizes engineering events
13		Understands and can work effectively with multiple javascript paradigms and programming styles	Strong understanding of web page performance and how to tune	Challenge designs from a user perspective	Understands when tests are not providing value	Strong understanding of the monitoring solutions at TES	Strong understanding of complex system metrics	Communicate an architecture	Able to turn complex business needs into consumable work	Actively works to support services outside of their team's responsibilities	Challenges teams values and behaviours to increase effectiveness		Owns a TES open source library
14		Strong understanding of multiple datastorage techniques and technologies.	In depth knowledge of multiple build pipeline toolsets	Capable of designing on the fly/in the browser	Does not refactor for the sake of refactoring	Understands the performance impact of network and service topology	Strong understanding of data's relationship with system health	Strong understanding of async vs synchronous integration patterns	Balances the urgent with the important		Works to make others on the team more effective		Works to maintain consistency across codebases
15		In depth understanding of a single datastorage technology		know accessibility principles	Writes code that can be maintained by an inexperienced engineer		Strong understanding of the importance of data to the business		Provides adequate details with issues/stories				Helps other teams to adopt practices that make them successful
16		In depth understanding of NodeJS & ECMAScript		understand usability patterns	Understands the delivery cost of correctness vs shipping								Provides assistance in hipchat when people ask for things
17					Breaks the rules at the right times
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19	Independently successful	Understands the basic building blocks of a TES service	Build web applications that support multiple browsers, which include all the relevant prefixes / polyfills	Builds responsive web designs	Creates the right place when there is no right place	In depth understanding of chosen build tools	In depth understanding of API design	Manages technical debt on a person level	Understands the TES business and users	Has a cohesive technical vision at a project level	Able to do peer to peer mentorship/enabling	Speaker at a conference (on TES's behalf)	Ensures their builds are kept green as much as possible
20		Knows what good looks like, and will apply it all times	Understands web page performance and optimizations	Builds mobile first	Awareness of the cost of maintaining a code base	Contributes to the shared tooling used at TES	Considers maintenance and monitoring of the system	Able to drive a cohesive microservice architecture	Ensures features promoted to live are functioning as expected	Primarily responsible for a delivery project	Has strong situational awareness of people	Contributes to the TES blog	Helps with organizing engineering events
21		Avoids cargo culting	Applies progressive enhancement when neccesary	In-depth knowledge of SASS	Understands good software design	Working knowledge of monitoring systems at TES	In depth understanding of web security	Understands the concept of a walking skeleton	Able to engage the business users to elicit the value of the requested task and provide effective alternatives	Can manage external expectations effectively	Provides effective feedback	Contibutes to open source projects that TES depends on	Contributes to TES open source libraries
22		Able to work with a single datastorage technology	Writes effective automated tests for frontend code	All CSS/HTML is cross browser compatible	Refactors when neccessary	Understands the performance impacts of technology choices	Considers how to get data from their systems to the business	Strong understanding of the integration patterns used at TES	Can write stories/epics that are consumable by the team	Prevents the team from being burdened with too many external pressures	Works to the pace of the team
23		Working knowledge of git & github	Considers how to handle frontend errors	Comfortable with designer tools (sketch/zeplin)	Proactively works towards improving the code base	Can dig into performance problems in a single service		Understands the fallacies of distributed computing	Appreciates priorities set by people with broader understanding of business constraints	Monitors hipchat and responds when there are issues in their services	Consistently provides mentees with a safe place to discuss issues
24			In depth knowledge of a build pipeline toolset used by TES	Able to challenge designs that are technically infeasible	Writes tests when required	Knowledge of system security
25					Writes maintainable code
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27	Experienced Beginner	In-depth knowledge of NodeJS	In-depth knowledge of a frontend framework	In-depth knowledge of HTML & templating	Working knowledge of JS design patterns	Working knowledge of deployment environment	Basic knowledge of monitoring tools available at TES	Understanding of service architecture	Understands the distinct business area they are working in	Maintains vision of a larger piece of work (feature/epic) within the delivery	Actively considers and provides adhoc feedback	Gives talks to user groups	Contributes to TES shared libraries
28		Uses the code base a reference point but may not able to understand if it is good or not	Understands progressive enhancement	Working knowledge of SASS	Puts code in the right places	Working knowledge of deployment tools	Working knowledge of web security	Understanding of system architecture	Able to decompose a business story into technical tasks	Explain technical solutions well	Can mentor and enable more junior developers	Attends conferences	Contributes to knowledge sharing and other learning opportunities
29		Has effective git commits	Tests against multiple browsers to ensure compatibilty	Apply existing designs to new problems	Understands different testing strategies (test pyramid)	Working knowledge of build tools		Basic understanding of REST	Realizes the quality is their responsibility	Actively works to support the services on their team			Contributes ideas to hackdays
30		Uses pull requests effectively	Working knowledge of a build pipeline toolset used by TES	Understanding of cross browser concerns for CSS/HTML	Understands basic abstractions			Working knowledge of TES integration techniques
31		Basic understanding of algorithms			Maintains consistency within the code base
32					Writes readable code
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35	Novice	Working knowledge of NodeJS	Working knowledge a frontend framework	Working knowledge of CSS	Understand basic automated testing	Understands basic build tools at TES	Basic understanding of distributed computing	Understands why the structure of code/services is important	Aware of the business sections within TES	Can complete a story with external assistence or pairing	Involved in selecting solution for an issue	Attends user group meetups	Communicates via hipchat
36		Can implement simple solutions with direction	Basic understanding of browsers (ie, firefox, safari, chrome, ie)	Working knowledge of HTML	Understands the importance of automated testing	Basic understanding of shell scripting/usage	Basic understanding of logging infrastructure	Basic understanding of technical debt	Understands a user story & technical tasks	Maintains an understanding of how to deliver a story	Actively contributes to Pull Request discussions	Reads and follows relevant technical blogs	Participates in hackdays
37		Understands source control and the value it provides	Understanding of the existence/importance of build pipeline tools	Working knowledge of browser javascript	Can read code and understand what is going on	Basic understanding of deployment environment	Basic understanding of web security concepts	Able to follow a simple archtecture when it is explained to them	Listens effectively during meetings with the business		Asks for help in a timely fashion
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