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Problem management

Problem management involves anticipating and identifying problems in systems, processes or services, and ensuring appropriate solutions are implemented.

Quoted from the UK GDaD PCF.

Levels

1. Awareness

You can:

  • investigate problems in systems, processes and services, with an understanding of the level of a problem, for example, strategic, tactical or operational
  • contribute to the implementation of remedies and preventative measures
2. Working

You can:

  • initiate and monitor actions to investigate patterns and trends to resolve problems
  • effectively consult specialists where required
  • determine the appropriate resolution and assist with its implementation
  • determine preventative measures
3. Practitioner

You can:

  • ensure that the right actions are taken to investigate, resolve and anticipate problems
  • co-ordinate the team to investigate problems, implement solutions and take preventive measures
4. Expert

You can:

  • anticipate problems and defend against them at the right time
  • understand how a problem fits into the larger picture
  • identify and describe problems, and help others to describe them
  • build problem-solving capabilities in others

Contains public sector information from the UK Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework (https://understand-digital-data-roles-skills.service.gov.uk/), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright.

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Role levels that expect this skill

Role levelRoleBandExpected level
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Senior analytics engineerAnalytics engineer7Working
Lead analytics engineerAnalytics engineer8aPractitioner
Head of analytics engineeringAnalytics engineer8cExpert
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Application operations engineerApplication operations engineer5Awareness
Senior application operations engineerApplication operations engineer6Working
Lead application operations engineerApplication operations engineer7Working
Principal application operations engineerApplication operations engineer8bPractitioner
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Change and release analystChange and release manager5Awareness
Change and release managerChange and release manager6Working
Data architectData architect8aWorking
Senior data architectData architect8bPractitioner
Chief data architectData architect8cExpert
Data engineerData engineer6Awareness
Senior data engineerData engineer7Working
Lead data engineerData engineer8aPractitioner
Head of data engineeringData engineer8bExpert
Associate end user computing engineerEnd user computing engineer4Awareness
End user computing engineerEnd user computing engineer5Awareness
Senior end user computing engineerEnd user computing engineer6Working
Lead end user computing engineerEnd user computing engineer7Working
Principal end user computing engineerEnd user computing engineer8bPractitioner
Incident managerIncident manager5Working
Major incident managerIncident manager7Working
Associate infrastructure engineerInfrastructure engineer4Awareness
Infrastructure engineerInfrastructure engineer6Awareness
Senior infrastructure engineerInfrastructure engineer7Working
Lead infrastructure engineerInfrastructure engineer8aWorking
Principal infrastructure engineerInfrastructure engineer8bPractitioner
Problem analystProblem manager5Working
Problem managerProblem manager6Practitioner
Senior service desk analystService desk analyst5Awareness
Service desk managerService desk analyst6Working
Head of service deskService desk analyst7Practitioner