Optimized Tech Teams at Sfinitor

• Prioritizes projects and assigns resources according to the business analyst and product owner's determinations
• In partnership with the business analyst and product owner, manages and defines project scope, assuring completion of necessary tasks while avoiding unnecessary work
• Manages, minimizes project risks
• Facilitates team coordination and communications with stakeholders
• Oversees project timelines and outputs; communicates progress to involved parties
• Maintains high-quality output for all projects
• Manages change processes
• Optimizes project budget for cost efficiency

Role can be assigned to/shared among Product Owner, Business Analyst, Software Architect, and Team Lead.

• Analyzes and records software needs based on the business operations it will underpin
• Translates project requirements into technical specifications for software architects and developers
• For software products, it is essential to pinpoint the key demographic, primary rivals, and fundamental features necessary to attract the target market and construct an effective marketing strategy
• Formulates project business proposal with feasibility assessment, cost analysis, and return on investment predictions
• Assesses technical feasibility of projects in collaboration with the solution architect, pinpointing potential obstacles
• Designs and facilitates user training materials and workshops

Multiple team members, including the product owner, project manager, software architect, UX designer, and senior developer, may collaborate in fulfilling this role.

• Collaborates with stakeholders to discern requirements, aspirations, and apprehensions
• Articulates software vision and strategy for alignment with corporate objectives and stakeholder expectations
• Manages and organizes backlog, focusing on crucial and pertinent software features and enhancements, maintaining their priority
• Streamlines adjustments to project specifications or objectives, maintaining comprehensive records, clear communication, and alignment with the overarching software plan
• Prepares test cases for user acceptance testing (UAT), facilitates testing sessions, and gathers feedback.

   

  This role can also be performed by or shared between the business analyst, project manager, UX designer, and software architect

• Develops software architecture and system interfaces based on precise business requirements from analysts
• Chooses suitable tech for effective problem resolution
• Delivers a scalable, reliable, high-performing, secure, maintainable, and transportable software design structure
• Ensures regulatory compliance of architectural choices, tools, and services in partnership with compliance advisors
• Alerts project managers on potential risks/dependencies in architectural designs affecting project completion, proposing associated mitigation plans
• Offers tech direction for development crews

The role in question can be fulfilled collaboratively by senior developers and tech leads, with DevOps and security engineers joining forces for task-specific responsibilities as required.

• Develops intricate user personas and user flow maps based on business analyst input
• Adheres to UX designs that align with accessibility standards, such as WCAG, for inclusivity
• Sketches or wireframes low-fidelity designs, outlining essential UI structure. Shares these with product owners for evaluation, ensuring compatibility with software's vision and functional requirements
• Creates interactive models utilizing software such as Figma, Sketch, or Adobe XD for pre-development simulation of user experiences. Collaborates with product owners to ensure prototypes align with user requirements and product objectives

• Performs usability tests (moderated and unmoderated) alongside A/B testing

Role can be concurrently handled by UI Designer, Product Owner, or Front-End Developer in collaborative fashion for optimal results.

• Transforms UX designer's wireframes and prototypes into visually-rich, detailed versions
• Produces precise prototypes, reflecting final product details for stakeholder assessment and user trials
• Curates software interface aesthetics that harmonize with brand identity, resonating with the specified demographic
• Specializes in crafting visual elements for micro-interactions and animations, encompassing hover effects, loading spinners, and transitioning buttons
• Maintains harmonious aesthetic uniformity across various digital domains (web, mobile, desktop), setting responsive design breakpoints
• Streamlines UI kit and design system creation/maintenance, facilitating swift UI development
• Collaborates with UX designers, refining design concepts from user feedback and test outcomes

UI Designer/Front-End Developer roles may collaborate in performing this task.

• Codes servers per approved blueprints, guided by business analysts and architects
• Oversees database interaction and data storage management
• Develops and sustains APIs for seamless interaction with external systems and user interfaces
• Coordinates with front-end developers to guarantee that server-side logic aligns with front-end prerequisites and data specifications
• Collaborates with software architects and security specialists to develop security protocols for safeguarding critical data and apps

• Executes unit and integration testing.

• Resolves detected QA issues
• Codes are documented, API details and data streams outlined, with versions tracked through changes logs and version control records maintained

• Transforms UI designs into functioning user interfaces, offering constructive feedback to UX/UI designers regarding the practicality of designs and recommending modifications as needed
• Guarantees harmonious user experience (UX) uniformity across various web browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and diverse platforms including desktop, mobile, and tablet. Facilitates quality assurance (QA) engineers in establishing test cases for cross-browser and cross-platform compatibility assessments

• Streamlines front-end/back-end service & API integration
• Executes unit and integration testings
• Resolves front-end problems flagged by QA

• Creates and supports mobile apps for iOS, Android, wearables, smart TVs, and other platforms
• Adapts user interface and user experience per designs from UX/UI experts
• Delivers uniform user interface on various mobile devices, catering to diverse screen dimensions
• Adheres to platform standards such as Apple's Human Interface Guidelines and Google's Material Design, ensuring seamless user experience and app approval
• For multi-platform apps, seamlessly connects front-end with backend services and APIs created by back-end developers
• Performs unit and integration testings
• Resolves and rectifies QA-reported issues
• Keeps track of changes and version control records for easy access later

• Crafts database schemas to optimize usage of cloud databases (AWS RDS, Azure SQL Database), utilizing native functions such as sharding and partitioning where relevant
• Synergizes with software architects for schema alignment with overall system structure, collaborating closely with developers on data structure development
• Executes database maintenance duties (including backups, recovery, defragmentation, and replication) and configures automation for these tasks in cloud-databases, collaborating closely with DevOps teams to monitor and optimize processes
• Ensures secure database access control management
• Coordinates data migration projects alongside software architects & dev teams
• Adheres to data privacy laws (GDPR, HIPAA), in conjunction with legal consultants

Back-end development, DevOps engineering, and system administration roles may collaborate to fulfill this function.

• Streamlines and oversees automated, continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) workflows in conjunction with back-end development teams. This ensures that builds and releases undergo testing, adhere to application standards, and remain seamlessly integrated throughout the process
• Oversees server infrastructures and cloud service operations
• Implementing Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) approaches
• Streamlines containerization & orchestration
• Monitors and logs applications, pinpointing crucial metrics and logs to empower developers with actionable insights
• Collaborates with security engineers on fortifying server infrastructures, enforcing security protocols and access restrictions within cloud ecosystems, and safeguarding applications and data throughout deployment phases
• Designs and sustains disaster recovery strategies in collaboration with software architects and database specialists

Role can be executed collaboratively among system admins, back-end devs, and security engineers.

• Collaborates with dev teams on implementing secure coding guidelines like CWE/SANS Top 25 for enhanced cybersecurity
• Collaborates with software architects and coding professionals, ensuring security is embedded in software infrastructure, development tools, and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) workflows
• Executes security evaluations, encompassing penetration tests, vulnerability scans, and source code analyses. Partners with development squads to expeditiously address and rectify identified vulnerabilities
• Coordinates security incident response with DevOps, implementing response strategies
• Adheres to software regulations like ISO 27001, NIST, GDPR, and HIPAA for compliance assurance
• Monitors network traffic, system logs, and user activities using Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems, identifying potential threats or suspicious behaviors

Senior developers, DevOps engineers, software architects, and system administrators can all undertake this task collaboratively or individually.

• Develops test strategies, designs tests from software specifications, outlines test case structures
• Partners with DevOps teams or system admins to align testing environments with production, minimizing false test outcomes
• Tests, records outcomes, and shares findings with development teams
• Debugs issues, records replication procedures, monitors progress, and verifies solutions for problem resolution
• Aligns bug prioritization and impacts with product owners/business analysts for business-focused resolution
• Streamlines automated testing efforts, collaborating with developers on test-suitable regions, and aligning with DevOps engineers for seamless integration within CI/CD pipelines

Developers and DevOps engineers can collaboratively execute this role, with responsibilities split partially.

• Manages and oversees servers across development, testing, and production ecosystems. Collaborates frequently with DevOps specialists in the automation of server setup and configuration using infrastructure automation tools such as Terraform or Ansible
• Streamlines network setup, collaborates with security professionals for firewall and VPN configuration
• Software dependency management, updates, and installation on servers
• Troubleshoots and rectifies system problems, collaborating with developers to pinpoint underlying causes and apply coding solutions
• Collaborates with DevOps engineers in establishing monitoring systems and visualization dashboards for instant performance metrics. This facilitates proactive resource management and provides developers with actionable insights for improved application code optimization and architecture enhancement

Developer/DevOps Engineer roles can collaborate in executing this task.

• Offers technical assistance to software end-users, transferring intricate technical problems to Level 2 engineers and developers for resolution
• Monitors user problems, records comprehensive case chronicles, and traces resolution advancement in a tracking system
• Verifies issue status with Quality Assurance (QA) to distinguish between known bugs and fresh defects, identifying if the problem has previously been resolved in a recent patch or update
• Project updates encompass issue volumes and categories within the backlog, shaping project timetables and priority settings
• Gathering user feedback fuels software advancement and growth
• Maintains comprehensive issue-solution database

Role can be handled by system administrators or customer service agents, or shared among them.

• Collaborates tightly with project managers and business analysts to ascertain pertinent regulations (such as HIPAA, GDPR, PCI DSS) and voluntary standards (ISO 27001, SOC 2) for application
• Formulates software compliance plan
• Verifies compliance of architectural, design, and development decisions in concert with industry professionals during software design phase
• Maintains development project compliance throughout the process (where necessary)
• Collects compliance documents across Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) for continued audits/reviews purposes
• Ensures software adheres to all pertinent standards prior to deployment
• Assists with regulatory submissions, such as FDA clearance for medical device software, ensuring all necessary documentation is prepared and submitted correctly

  Security engineers and business analysts can collaborate in executing this role.