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Skylight Career Pathways

Find descriptions of different roles within Skylight
and the skills needed to do them.

Updated: October 13, 2022

About Skylight Career Pathways

Our Career Pathways provide a framework for different roles you’ll find at Skylight and details about the skills needed to work at each level.

You can use this framework to:

  • Understand what skills you need for a particular role
  • Identify skills that you need to develop to progress your career
  • Assess skills in preparation for performance reviews
  • Develop job descriptions for hiring new employees
  • Evaluate candidates during the hiring process

Roles

Find out about different roles at Skylight. We’ll publish more roles as they become available.

Research & design

User researcher

Product designer

Service designer

Content designer

Engineering

Software engineer

DevOps engineer

Security engineer

Data

Data engineer

Data scientist

Product & delivery

Product manager

Engagement manager

Transformation & procurement

Digital transformer

General

Consultant

People manager

Attribution

Parts of this content are based on GOV.UK’s Digital, Data and Technology Profession Capability Framework, which is licensed under the Open Government License v3.0.

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