# roles

> Complete reference for all 16 roles in the Unified Enterprise Lifecycle. Each role has clear responsibilities, tasks, deliverables, and phase coverage.

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name: "roles"
description: "Complete reference for all 16 roles in the Unified Enterprise Lifecycle. Each role has clear responsibilities, tasks, deliverables, and phase coverage."
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# ALL ROLES - COMPLETE REFERENCE

This shared skill provides complete definitions for all 16 roles in the Unified Enterprise Lifecycle framework.

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## EXECUTIVE & LEADERSHIP ROLES

### 1. EXECUTIVE SPONSOR
**Position**: Senior Executive (C-Level, VP)

**Responsibility**: Executive authority, budget approval, escalation resolution

**Key Tasks**:
- Approve business case and funding
- Approve go/no-go decisions
- Resolve escalations beyond project level
- Champion project at executive level
- Provide executive visibility and support

**Deliverables**:
- Executive sponsorship approval
- Budget authorization
- Escalation decisions
- Executive communications

**Phase Coverage**: All phases (oversight)

**Approvals**: Go/no-go decisions, budget, escalations

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### 2. PRODUCT OWNER / BUSINESS SPONSOR
**Position**: Business Leader, Product Manager

**Responsibility**: Product vision, requirements, ROI

**Key Tasks**:
- Define product vision and strategy
- Own and prioritize requirements
- Accept/reject deliverables
- Manage stakeholder expectations
- Measure business value and ROI

**Deliverables**:
- Product Requirements Document (PRD)
- Business case
- Prioritized requirements backlog
- User acceptance criteria
- Business value metrics

**Phase Coverage**: All phases (product authority)

**Approvals**: Requirements, deliverables, acceptance

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### 3. PROJECT MANAGER / PROGRAM MANAGER
**Position**: PMI-certified Project Manager

**Responsibility**: Project execution, timeline, budget

**Key Tasks**:
- Create and maintain project plan
- Manage project schedule and milestones
- Track budget and financials
- Coordinate resources across teams
- Manage risks and issues
- Report status to stakeholders
- Ensure adherence to governance

**Deliverables**:
- Project plan
- Schedule and milestones
- Budget tracking reports
- Risk register
- Status reports
- Governance compliance reports

**Phase Coverage**: All phases (execution management)

**Approvals**: Project plans, status, changes

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## TECHNICAL LEADERSHIP ROLES

### 4. CHIEF TECHNOLOGY ARCHITECT (CTA) / SOLUTION ARCHITECT
**Position**: Senior Technical Leader

**Responsibility**: Technical vision, architecture decisions

**Key Tasks**:
- Define overall technical architecture
- Make technology stack decisions
- Approve technical designs
- Ensure security in architecture
- Design for scalability and performance
- Evaluate technical trade-offs
- Govern technical standards

**Deliverables**:
- System architecture document
- Security architecture document
- Technology stack decisions
- Architecture Decision Records (ADRs)
- Technical standards and guidelines
- Architecture review approvals

**Phase Coverage**: Phases 1-4 (design), all phases (oversight)

**Approvals**: Architecture, technology stack, technical standards

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### 5. TECHNICAL LEAD / ENGINEERING MANAGER
**Position**: Technical Team Lead

**Responsibility**: Delivery execution, team leadership

**Key Tasks**:
- Lead development team(s)
- Assign tasks to developers
- Review and approve code
- Ensure coding standards
- Manage technical debt
- Mentor and coach developers
- Report technical progress to PM

**Deliverables**:
- Technical specifications
- Code review approvals
- Sprint plans and reports
- Technical debt register
- Team performance metrics
- Delivery status reports

**Phase Coverage**: Phases 4-6 (execution), all phases (team)

**Approvals**: Code, technical decisions, sprint completion

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## SECURITY & COMPLIANCE ROLES

### 6. CHIEF INFORMATION SECURITY OFFICER (CISO)
**Position**: Senior Security Executive

**Responsibility**: Overall security strategy and posture

**Key Tasks**:
- Define security strategy and policies
- Approve security architecture and controls
- Manage security risk and compliance
- Oversee incident response
- Ensure security awareness training
- Report security status to board
- Govern security investments

**Deliverables**:
- Security policy and standards
- Security strategy document
- Risk assessment reports
- Compliance status reports
- Incident response reports
- Security metrics dashboard

**Phase Coverage**: All phases (security governance)

**Approvals**: Security strategy, policies, risk tolerance

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### 7. SECURITY ARCHITECT / LEAD
**Position**: Security Technical Lead

**Responsibility**: Security design, implementation, testing

**Key Tasks**:
- Design security controls
- Conduct threat modeling
- Review architecture for security
- Define security requirements
- Conduct security code reviews
- Perform penetration testing
- Validate security controls
- Manage security vulnerabilities

**Deliverables**:
- Security requirements
- Threat models
- Security architecture
- Security test plans and results
- Vulnerability assessments
- Security review reports
- Security exception requests

**Phase Coverage**: All phases (security technical)

**Approvals**: Security design, security test results, exceptions

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### 8. COMPLIANCE OFFICER / AUDIT MANAGER
**Position**: Compliance and Audit Lead

**Responsibility**: Regulatory compliance, audit readiness

**Key Tasks**:
- Identify applicable regulations
- Define compliance requirements
- Maintain compliance documentation
- Conduct internal audits
- Coordinate external audits
- Track compliance exceptions
- Report compliance status

**Deliverables**:
- Compliance matrix
- Compliance requirements documentation
- Internal audit reports
- External audit coordination
- Remediation plans
- Compliance status reports

**Phase Coverage**: All phases (compliance governance)

**Approvals**: Compliance approach, audit findings, remediation

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## QUALITY & TESTING ROLES

### 9. QUALITY ASSURANCE LEAD
**Position**: QA Manager / Lead

**Responsibility**: Quality strategy, testing governance

**Key Tasks**:
- Define quality strategy and standards
- Create test plans and strategies
- Review test coverage
- Manage defect lifecycle
- Report quality metrics
- Ensure quality gates are met
- Govern quality processes

**Deliverables**:
- Quality strategy document
- Test plans and strategies
- Test coverage reports
- Defect reports and metrics
- Quality gate status
- Quality dashboards

**Phase Coverage**: Phases 2 (requirements), 6 (validation), all phases (quality governance)

**Approvals**: Test plans, quality gates, release readiness

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### 10. QUALITY ASSURANCE ENGINEERS / TESTERS
**Position**: QA Engineers

**Responsibility**: Test design, execution, reporting

**Key Tasks**:
- Design test cases
- Execute manual and automated tests
- Report and track defects
- Verify defect fixes
- Maintain test automation
- Report test results

**Deliverables**:
- Test case specifications
- Test execution results
- Defect reports
- Test automation scripts
- Test summary reports

**Phase Coverage**: Phase 6 (testing), Phase 7 (release QA)

**Approvals**: Test execution, defect verification

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### 11. PERFORMANCE TEST ENGINEER
**Position**: Performance Testing Specialist

**Responsibility**: Performance and scalability testing

**Key Tasks**:
- Design performance tests
- Execute load and stress tests
- Analyze performance results
- Identify performance bottlenecks
- Recommend performance improvements
- Validate SLA compliance

**Deliverables**:
- Performance test plans
- Performance test results
- Performance analysis reports
- Optimization recommendations
- SLA compliance reports

**Phase Coverage**: Phase 2 (NFRs), Phase 6 (performance testing), Phase 8 (monitoring)

**Approvals**: Performance test results, SLA compliance

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## DEVELOPMENT & INFRASTRUCTURE ROLES

### 12. DEVELOPERS
**Position**: Software Engineers (various levels)

**Responsibility**: Code development, testing, documentation

**Key Tasks**:
- Implement features per specifications
- Write unit tests
- Conduct code reviews
- Participate in agile ceremonies
- Document code
- Follow coding standards
- Collaborate with team

**Deliverables**:
- Source code (version controlled)
- Unit tests (passing)
- Code documentation
- Code review participation
- Sprint deliverables

**Phase Coverage**: Phase 5 (development), all phases (implementation)

**Approvals**: N/A (individual contributors)

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### 13. DEVOPS ENGINEER
**Position**: DevOps Specialist

**Responsibility**: CI/CD, infrastructure automation

**Key Tasks**:
- Design and implement CI/CD pipelines
- Manage build and deployment automation
- Implement infrastructure as code (IaC)
- Manage environments (dev, staging, prod)
- Automate operational tasks
- Support development teams

**Deliverables**:
- CI/CD pipeline implementations
- IaC templates
- Environment configurations
- Automation scripts
- Deployment procedures

**Phase Coverage**: Phase 4 (planning), Phase 5 (CI/CD), Phase 7 (deployment), Phase 8 (operations)

**Approvals**: CI/CD designs, deployments

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### 14. SITE RELIABILITY ENGINEER (SRE)
**Position**: SRE Specialist

**Responsibility**: Production reliability, monitoring, incident response

**Key Tasks**:
- Design monitoring and observability
- Configure alerting and on-call
- Manage incidents and outages
- Conduct post-incident reviews
- Optimize system reliability
- Manage capacity and scaling
- Conduct disaster recovery testing

**Deliverables**:
- Monitoring dashboards
- Alerting configurations
- Incident response procedures
- Post-incident reviews
- Reliability metrics
- On-call schedules

**Phase Coverage**: Phase 6 (operational readiness), Phase 7 (deployment validation), Phase 8 (operations)

**Approvals**: Production changes, incident handling

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## DATA & INFRASTRUCTURE ROLES

### 15. DATA ARCHITECT
**Position**: Data Architecture Specialist

**Responsibility**: Data modeling, integration, strategy

**Key Tasks**:
- Design data models and schemas
- Design data integration patterns
- Define data lifecycle requirements
- Design data security controls
- Plan data migration
- Optimize data performance

**Deliverables**:
- Data models (logical, physical)
- Data integration design
- Data dictionary
- Data migration strategy
- Data security controls

**Phase Coverage**: Phase 2 (data requirements), Phase 3 (data architecture), all phases (data)

**Approvals**: Data architecture, data models, data security

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### 16. CLOUD ARCHITECT
**Position**: Cloud Infrastructure Specialist

**Responsibility**: Cloud infrastructure design and implementation

**Key Tasks**:
- Design cloud infrastructure architecture
- Select cloud providers and services
- Design network architecture
- Design high availability and DR
- Optimize cloud costs
- Implement IaC
- Design security architecture

**Deliverables**:
- Cloud architecture diagrams
- Network architecture designs
- Infrastructure designs
- IaC templates
- Cost optimization plans
- Security implementations

**Phase Coverage**: Phase 3 (infrastructure design), Phase 4 (DevOps planning), Phase 8 (operations)

**Approvals**: Cloud architecture, infrastructure changes, cost models

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## ROLE MATRIX BY PHASE

| Role | P1 | P2 | P3 | P4 | P5 | P6 | P7 | P8 |
|------|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|-----|
| Executive Sponsor |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| Product Owner |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| Project Manager |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| CTA |  |  |  |  |  | | | |
| Tech Lead | | |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| CISO |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| Security Architect | |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| Compliance Officer | |  |  |  | |  |  |  |
| QA Lead | |  | |  |  |  |  | |
| QA Engineers | | | | | |  |  | |
| Performance Engineer | |  | | | |  | |  |
| Developers | | | |  |  | | | |
| DevOps | | |  |  |  | |  |  |
| SRE | | | | | |  |  |  |
| Data Architect | |  |  |  | | | | |
| Cloud Architect | | |  |  | | | |  |

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**For phase-specific role activities, reference the phase SKILL.md files.**

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**Version 1.0.0 | OCTALUME Enterprise Lifecycle Framework**