Source Level: IC5 Staff This role is Grade 9

I help set multi-year, multi-team technical strategy and deliver it through direct implementation or broad technical leadership.

Scope
Area of ownership and level of autonomy / ambiguity
Collaborative Reach
Organizational reach and extent of influence
Competencies
Competencies developed to deliver results
  • I deliver multi-year, multi-team product or platform goals
  • I exhibit a very high standard of technical judgement, innovation and execution to tackle open-ended problems that require difficult prioritization, defining both the what, how and why of things to be done
  • I am increasingly influencing the roadmaps of other Roivant IT teams to achieve business impacting goals.
  • I exercise judgement that favors the priorities of the wider organization rather than favoring locally optimal outcomes.
  • Technical Strategy - I excel at defining the vision for and delivering large business-impacting projects with multiple constraints.
  • Product and Service Expertise - I think about my domain as a product portfolia, and I increasingly influence or make product decisions/scope and determine the right technical tradeoffs to deliver business value quickly.
  • Domain Expertise - I have mastery in many 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
  • I execute large projects to a high standard — e.g. against a tight constraints with significant consequences of failure, or in a manner that allows rapid learning to clarify significant ambiguity, or to a standard of quality well exceeding that of the current system (though not all simultaneously). I make independent decisions in the face of open-ended requirements.
  • I know which levers to pull to drive meaningful results and understand the wider, cross-functional implications of my work. I proactively account for risks and monitor their likelihood. My project planning accounts for new capabilities necessary to deliver large-scale business value and I work closely with partner teams to prioritize the development of these capabilities.
  • I proactively identify and help to refocus my team’s efforts when projects are off-course or not feasible and results aren’t moving the needle for our team, organizational or enterprise goals.
Ownership
  • I have a sense of responsibility and obligation to act on opportunities I see across our organization and company.
Decision Making
  • I have a holistic view of our organization and Roivant’s goals and use my experience and judgment to make decisions optimized for the wider org and company, rather than my team or project alone.
  • I act thoughtfully and decisively in critical situations even when making challenging or unpopular decisions.
  • I’m able to reach the right decision despite conflicting perspectives.

↔️ Direction

Responsibility Key behaviors
Agility
  • When necessary, I am able to introduce change into the organization, help others understand the business case for change, and create excitement to drive adoption of the change.
Innovation
  • I push boundaries to generate and implement breakthrough ideas that aim to create new products or advance existing products and drive our services forward
  • I create an environment supporting experimentation and iteration towards audacious goals.
Strategy
  • I help define a long-term vision for my team that factors in company-wide priorities as well as the limitations and possibilities of Roivant’s infrastructure and industry. I inspire my team and cross-discipline stakeholders to work toward that vision.
  • I anticipate challenges and am able to influence the technical direction of the team or org to execute on that vision even in the face of potential significant misalignment.

🌱 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 am an active participant in the hiring process for senior candidates (for example, by participating in hiring committee, debriefs, etc.).
  • I earn the trust of candidates and can represent my organization’s mission, strategy, and culture throughout the interview process.
  • I am an effective partner to my manager and am able to represent my team’s technical challenges to candidates in an exciting way (e.g. 1:1 sell chats, blog posts, public speaking).
Talent Development
  • I am a role model for my organizational teammates and model a standard of excellence that supports a culture of high performance in my org.
  • I invest time to coach and mentor my teammates (particularly ones looking to grow into L4/L5). I take into account their skills, backgrounds, working styles and solicit and provide thoughtful, constructive feedback to them.
  • I devote time to spreading my knowledge widely via talks, blog posts or written documentation.

🌈 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 proactively seek the root cause of blockers at the team and organization level, and take lead on changes to prevent them.
Efficiency
  • I proactively seek out slow, complex or difficult processes, which may be hidden, in my team and organization and determine and implement improvements.
Diversity & Inclusion
  • I act as a partner to my organization’s managers in setting the cultural tone for the org. I create an inclusive environment for others and ensure diverse perspectives are included.
  • Working with my manager, I leverage the unique strengths & skills of the members of my team, and help identify talent gaps required for team success.
  • I exemplify Roivant IT’s culture and values. I champion community building efforts and inclusion initiatives. I work in close partnership with the management team to ensure a healthy organization.
  • I lead by example. I am aware of my public presence and actions and my influence on the people around me and Roivant’s culture
Iteration
  • I demonstrate mastery of the concept of Minimum Viable Change by demonstrating and guiding my team and organization to execute small changes in order to maintain progress.
  • I confidently make one and two-way door decisions with accuracy and reliability.
Transparency
  • I tailor my message to my audience, presenting it clearly and concisely at the right altitude.
  • I fine tune my approach to getting buy-in and influencing stakeholders across a variety of audiences.
  • I fanatically write things down, and I proactively share this material to keep people informed and aligned.

🛠️ Craft

I have a well-rounded set of technical skills and apply them with a sophisticated approach that is best suited for projects with focus on reliability, sustainability, and efficiency. I am a master of designing simple, flexible, and reliable system integrations and software components, I enforce the quality of my team’s designs and provide quality feedback on designs of reliability objectives. I ensure my team’s work fits with the broader reliability strategy of the organization. I am called to design software or systems in the face of high reliability risks, significant ambiguity or a large number of dependencies, and my designs do not anticipate the maintainers to have my expertise. I work with cross-functional partners to discover novel technical solutions to business problems.

Responsibility Key Behaviors
Systems Fluency
  • I fully understand the layers of Roivant systems, and appropriate tooling for each one, and know when to engage peers when my own knowledge isn’t adequate in one.
  • I deeply understand and can improve multiple of the major systems utilized at Roivant and am considered an expert on many of the systems.
Systems Design
  • I own the definition of the core reliability targets (SLO/SLAs) of Roivant infrastructure, driven by my areas of focus, and identify the appropriate failure domains for the company.
  • I analyze patterns in incidents and identify improvements needed across Roivant in how we design and operate core systems.
  • I own the core reliability of Roivant infrastructure and identify the appropriate failure domains for the company.
  • I make correct technology choices for components needed as part of a larger architecture, including making build vs buy choices for specific components, and choosing frameworks.
  • I am capable of owning the overall health and integration reliability of the systems in my area - e.g. surfacing reliability risks, driving regular health reviews, curating reliability strategy, etc - and ensuring that the health and maintenance of my systems do not depend on the maintainers having my expertise.
  • I am capable of driving overall reliability strategy of significant systems with high reliability or quality requirements.
  • I am capable of designing systems with significant ambiguity and/or many dependent systems.
Code and Automation Fluency
  • The expectations for code fluency do not go beyond IC4 (though some specialist engineers may go deeper in this area).
Technical Strategy
  • I am accountable for alignment of the software and systems in my area to overall reliability strategy, making tradeoffs where appropriate in consultation with principal stakeholders.