Architecture Management
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Manager
Individual contributor route
Technical or professional depth, without managing people.
This family has no individual-contributor ladder.
Management route
Managing people. It is not the step above the individual route: it is a different job and asks for different evidence.
- Supervisor / Team Lead, ArchitectureM0Optional frontline layer
- Manager, ArchitectureM1
- Senior Manager, ArchitectureM2
- Director, ArchitectureM3
- Senior Director, ArchitectureM4
- AVP / Head of ArchitectureM5Optional executive layer
- Vice President, ArchitectureM6
- Senior Vice President, ArchitectureM7
Source: SFIA; PMI; Microsoft Careers