Band 8b
Lead. SFIA level 6. Job evaluation points 585 to 629.
- Knowledge
- Expert knowledge across several disciplines or a large service.
- Autonomy
- Shapes policy and strategy for a large area.
- Scope
- Several services or teams, or a principal-level discipline.
- Leadership
- Manages managers, or is the principal authority in a discipline.
- Accountability
- Several services, their staff, and their budgets.
- Civil Service grades
- G7, G6
Role levels in Band 8b
- Lead business architect
- Lead security architect
- Lead technical architect
- Senior data architect
- Senior enterprise architect
- Senior solution architect
- Head of clinical safety
- Head of communications
- Head of corporate governance
- Senior cyber security manager
- Head of data engineering
- Head of data science
- Head of performance analysis
- Lead data governance manager
- Lead machine learning engineer
- Principal data analyst
- Head of financial accounts
- Head of management accounts
- Head of HR business partnering
- Data protection officer
- Head of IT service management
- Principal application operations engineer
- Principal end user computing engineer
- Principal infrastructure engineer
- Principal legal adviser
- Lead contract manager
- Senior category manager
- Head of project management
- Lead product manager
- Programme delivery manager
- Service owner
- Lead DevOps engineer
- Lead frontend developer
- Principal software developer
- Head of accessibility
- Lead content designer
- Lead interaction designer
- Lead service designer
- Lead user researcher