Source Level: IC4 Senior This role is Grade 8

I autonomously deliver business impact by leading multi-phase, cross-team reliability efforts across a team, broad product capability or technical system.

Scope
Area of ownership and level of autonomy / ambiguity
Collaborative Reach
Organizational reach and extent of influence
Competencies
Competencies developed to deliver results
  • I steward and potentially own key metrics for my team.
  • I am an expert at identifying the right solutions to solve ambiguous, open-ended problems that require tough prioritization.
  • I define solutions or processes that level up my team.
  • I increasingly optimize beyond just my team by driving cross-team or cross-discipline initiatives.
  • I am a leader for my team with my impact beginning to extend outside my team’s scope.
  • Technical Strategy - I play a key role in setting medium-to-long term strategy for business-impacting projects.
  • Product and Service Expertise - I think about my domain as a product portfolio, and I actively keep Roivant’s business needs in mind when considering the products my team will deliver.
  • Domain Expertise - I have mastery in multiple disciplines inside my domain.
  • Mentorship - I actively level up less-experienced members of my team by helping them with their craft, providing guidance, and setting a good example.

🌟 Results

Responsibility Key Behaviors
Results
  • My understanding of the business context and my team’s goals enable me to deliver significant business outcomes, and allows me to make independent technical decisions in the face of open-ended requirements.
  • I can identify when my results aren’t moving the needle for our business/team goals, or serving the needs of colleagues in a meaningful way, and I work with manager to redirect my focus.
  • I get work to a simple place by focusing on the heart of the problem and prioritizing the right things.
Ownership
  • I consistently look for the root cause of problems, and advocate for, and implement, improvements that will solve issues on a scale in and beyond my team.
  • I use KPIs and other analytics to help understand the trends of my and my team’s work.
  • I work asynchronously and synchronously and I use our tools to collaborate, make my work transparent, and proactively remove blockers.
Decision Making
  • I make informed decisions by consulting the right stakeholders and balancing details with the big picture. I execute against the spirit, and not just the letter, of our strategies.
  • I understand the implications of my decisions and adjust my approach based on the value and risk (e.g. choosing an iterative approach based on the degree of uncertainty with respect to solutions, while maintaining a view of the long term arc needed to accomplish business goals).
  • I make timely decisions but I don’t cut corners.

↔️ Direction

Responsibility Key behaviors
Agility
  • I embrace change and adapt quickly to it.
  • I’m able to navigate ambiguity and remain resilient through ups and downs.
Innovation
  • I am beginning to push boundaries to generate and implement ideas that aim to drive our services forward
  • I set audacious goals, take risks, and fanatically document what I’ve learned, to share with others.
Strategy
  • I play a major role in defining my team’s priorities.
  • I define the technical roadmap for projects and may act as a stakeholder for products delivered by my team.
  • I act as an evangelist for my team, their products and the team strategy.

🌱 Talent

Responsibility Key Behaviors
Personal growth
  • I proactively ask for feedback from those I work with and identify ways to act upon it
  • I have self-awareness about my strengths and areas for development
  • I drive discussions with my manager about aspirational goals and seek out opportunities to learn and grow
Hiring
  • I contribute to interviewing and assessing candidates to help us build a diverse and talented team.
  • I can represent the team mission and organizational strategy to prospective hires.
  • I am able to represent my team’s challenges to candidates in a compelling way
Talent Development
  • I model integrity and a high standard of excellence for my work and I leverage this to promote quality-of-work on the team.
  • I identify and support areas of growth for my teammates that take into account their skills, backgrounds and working styles.
  • I solicit and offer honest feedback, which is ASK, delivered with empathy to help others learn and grow.

🌈 Values

Responsibility Key Behaviors
Collaboration
  • I build relationships and drive coordination across teams & disciplines, helping drive to positive outcomes.
  • I do not use blame, and I solve the right problems, disagreeing and committing when necessary.
Results
  • I take ownership of complex processes and offer improvements to my team.
  • I actively remove blockers from myself, my team and organization, only escalating when necessary.
Efficiency
  • I actively monitor performance and quality metrics of my team’s products and services,
Diversity & Inclusion
  • Working with my manager, I leverage the strengths & skills of the members of my team, and help identify talent gaps required for team success.
  • I act as a partner to my manager in setting the cultural tone for the team and I actively demonstrate Roivant IT Values.
  • I motivate others to bring their authentic selves every day and contribute to building a strong community at Roivant.
Iteration
  • I demonstrate mastery of the concept of Minimum Viable Change by demonstrating and guiding my team to execute small changes.
  • I confidently identify one and two-way door decisions and make both as necessary.
Transparency
  • I tailor my message to my audience, presenting it clearly and concisely at the right altitude.
  • I fanatically write things down, and I proactively share this material to keep people informed and aligned.

🛠️ Craft

I play a role in ensuring the quality of my team’s technical work, both code and software / systems designs to sustainably operate systems with high reliability. I am responsible for designing the software or systems required in my area of ownership and ensuring that they meet their reliability objectives. My understanding of business context and purpose enables me to make technical decisions aligned with longer term reliability needs, not just immediate requirements.

Responsibility Key Behaviors
Systems Fluency
  • I deeply understand and can improve one or more of the impactful systems utilized at Roivant and am considered the expert on the system or am driving improvements across many impactful systems more broadly.
Systems Design
  • I help define the team’s reliability targets (SLO/SLAs) to meet the appropriate goals for a service.
  • I can prioritize fixing major system reliability issues and with appropriate levels of failure for the next phases of the company vs daily problems.
  • I help drive the team to define the risk matrix for a service.
  • I help drive the process to onboard services in production by meeting the Roivant IT’s standards to build and operate services efficiently.
  • I am able to create coherent integration designs with multiple components interacting across API or system boundaries.
  • I am capable of rolling out a component or major feature (and deprecating an existing system or feature) reliably - including appropriate monitoring, paging, etc are in place, and that failure domains are understood and characterized appropriately before large scale rollout. For early stage products, I am able to roll out with an eye toward achieving learning goals untainted by poor quality.
  • I design clear success metrics and achieve those metrics consistently post-launch through the lifetime of the system. For early stage products, those success metrics may be oriented around learning goals rather than usage goals.
Code and Automation Fluency
  • I am readily able to produce tested, well-documented, code for one or more automation platforms or systems.
  • I build and maintain complex CI/CD pipelines and automation system workflows.