P5P5 — Expert Professional
Expert
Set enterprise architecture strategy; author standards; represent company in technical forums; influence product portfolio decisions.
What this level means
Expert in field; key problem solver and project leader, authority in multiple areas
- Scope
- Multiple systems or a technical domain
- Autonomy
- Sets direction within the domain
- Complexity
- Novel, high-ambiguity problems; establishes the approach
- Impact
- Org / multi-team outcomes
- Decision rights
- Authority over a technical domain
- Leadership
- Leads cross-team technical initiatives
- Typical experience
- 8–12 yrs
What you'd do
- Set enterprise architecture strategy
- Author standards
- Develop enterprise architecture strategy
- Author technical standards
- Represent company in forums
Skills, knowledge & tools
- Enterprise strategy setting
- Standard authoring
- Stakeholder management
- Visionary leadership
- Enterprise architecture strategy
- Technical standard development
- Stakeholder influence strategies
- Product portfolio management
- Influential leadership
- Organizational vision
- Expert stakeholder management
What good looks like
- >10 years experience
- PhD or equivalent preferred
Common titles
Systems Architecture VSystems Architecture 5Staff Systems ArchitectureLead Systems ArchitectureExpert Systems Architecture
Where it sits & what it pays
O*NET / SOC: 15-0000 — Computer & Mathematical Occupations(inferred · under review)
Market-pay benchmarks for this family × level are coming — JobFrame anchors pay to the family/level structure rather than the raw title.