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Systems integration

Systems integration involves identifying points of connection between different systems and processes, or opportunities to combine them, and designing how the components communicate.

Quoted from the UK GDaD PCF.

Levels

1. Awareness

You can:

  • explain the process and principles of integrating systems.
  • describe challenges of designing, building and testing interfaces between systems
2. Working

You can:

  • build and test simple interfaces between systems
  • work on more complex integration as part of a wider team
3. Practitioner

You can:

  • define the integration build
  • co-ordinate build activities across systems
  • understand how to undertake and support integration testing activities
4. Expert

You can:

  • establish standards and procedures across a service product life cycle, including the development product life cycle, and can ensure that practitioners adhere to these
  • manage resources to ensure that the systems integration function works effectively

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
Junior DevOps engineerDevOps engineer5Awareness
DevOps engineerDevOps engineer6Working
Senior DevOps engineerDevOps engineer7Practitioner
Lead DevOps engineerDevOps engineer8bExpert
Principal DevOps engineerDevOps engineer8cExpert
Associate infrastructure engineerInfrastructure engineer4Awareness
Infrastructure engineerInfrastructure engineer6Working
Senior infrastructure engineerInfrastructure engineer7Practitioner
Lead infrastructure engineerInfrastructure engineer8aExpert
Principal infrastructure engineerInfrastructure engineer8bExpert
Junior integration engineerIntegration engineer (health interoperability)5Working
Integration engineerIntegration engineer (health interoperability)6Practitioner
Senior integration engineerIntegration engineer (health interoperability)7Expert
Lead integration engineerIntegration engineer (health interoperability)8aExpert
Senior machine learning engineerMachine learning engineer7Practitioner
Lead machine learning engineerMachine learning engineer8bExpert
Associate network architectNetwork architect6Awareness
Network architectNetwork architect7Practitioner
Lead network architectNetwork architect8aPractitioner
Junior software developerSoftware developer5Awareness
Software developerSoftware developer6Working
Senior software developerSoftware developer7Practitioner
Lead software developerSoftware developer8aPractitioner
Principal software developerSoftware developer8bPractitioner