SFIA
What is SFIA?
SFIA is a global framework that defines professional skills across seven levels of responsibility. It provides a shared language for describing capability, aligning expectations, and supporting consistent development across industries. Rather than focusing on job titles, SFIA defines what people actually do and how responsibility increases as capability grows.
121 Professional Skills
SFIA defines the skills and competencies required by professionals who design, develop, implement, manage and protect the data and technology that power the digital world. The SFIA professional skills are defined to be consistent with the levels of responsibility definitions. The SFIA Framework has many skills to cover the wide breadth of activities that professionals need.
6 Skill Categories
SFIA continues to group the skills into categories and subcategories. These do not have definitions themselves, they are just a navigation aid. Colour coding is also used to identify the categories.
7 Levels of Responsibility
The generic attributes that characterise SFIA’s seven levels of responsibility and accountability provide the underlying structure of the SFIA Framework. They ensure that the definitions of professional skills are defined in a way that makes their different levels recognisably distinct and aligned to the levels of responsibility.
5 Generic Attributes
The generic attributes of autonomy, influence, and complexity, along with the knowledge required and business skills/behavioural factors, collectively define the level of responsibility, detailing both the behaviours necessary for effectiveness and the specific knowledge needed at each level of responsibility.
