Roles and Job Titles
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Overview 
Wylie College distinguishes between job titles and roles. Job titles are used primarily to identify and recognize seniority and skill levels, and are a significant factor in setting salary levels. Roles are much finer grained, and identify specific responsibilities for software development activities.
Job Titles
Job titles are composed of a job category which classifies the kind of work typically performed, and "grade" levels from 1 to 5 which recognize seniority and skill level, 1 being the most junior and 5 being the most senior.
Job categories at Wylie College are as follows:
Manager - manages projects and/or departments. Has responsibility for staffing, scheduling, and budgeting. Often associated with the Project Manager role, but includes management of departments and projects other than software development.
Engineer - technical staff, typically with a college degree in a technical field or equivalent experience. Most software development roles, other than the project manager, are filled by someone with job title of Engineer.
Support Staff - This includes secretarial and administrative support. Typically supports engineers and managers. Is not directly responsible for a software development role, but performs activities in support of these roles.
Roles
Wylie College primarily uses the roles defined in the Rational Unified Process. Wylie College defines the following additional roles.
Field Engineer
The field engineer role is a specialization of the Tester role which focuses on Acceptance Testing, typically at customer sites.
Team Lead
A Team Lead manages a team of developers as part of a project. This role supports the Project Manager role, but has a smaller scope of responsibility.
Teams tend to be composed of 3 to 8 people. On smaller teams, the Team Lead usually also takes responsibility for developer or reviewer roles.
