Forward Impact Team

Career Paths

Pathway shows you what engineering roles look like at every level — the skills expected, the behaviours valued, and how roles change across disciplines and tracks. It turns agent-aligned engineering standard definitions into concrete job descriptions, progression roadmaps, and gap analyses.

What Pathway Shows You

  • Job definitions — Complete role descriptions for any combination of discipline, level, and track
  • Skill expectations — Which skills matter at each level and what proficiency is expected
  • Behaviour expectations — How engineers are expected to work at each level
  • Career progression — What changes between your current level and the next one
  • Gap analysis — Where you stand relative to a target role

Browse Entities

Explore what is defined in your agent-aligned engineering standard: 

npx fit-pathway discipline --list
npx fit-pathway skill --list
npx fit-pathway level --list
npx fit-pathway track --list
npx fit-pathway behaviour --list
npx fit-pathway driver --list

View a Job Definition

See the full job definition for a specific role:

npx fit-pathway job software_engineering J060

Apply a track to see how the role shifts in a specific context:

npx fit-pathway job software_engineering J060 --track=platform

The output includes the role's skill expectations with proficiency levels, behaviour expectations with maturity levels, responsibilities, and scope.

Understanding Skill Proficiencies

Skills are assessed on a five-level proficiency scale. Each level describes increasing autonomy and scope:

Proficiency Autonomy Scope Typical Verbs
awareness with guidance team understand, follow, use, learn
foundational with minimal guidance team apply, create, explain, identify
working independently team design, own, troubleshoot, decide
practitioner lead, mentor area (2–5 teams) lead, mentor, establish, evaluate
expert define, shape business unit / function define, shape, innovate, pioneer

A job definition specifies the expected proficiency for each skill. Not every skill needs to be at the same level — disciplines use a T-shaped model where core skills go deeper than supporting or broad skills.

Understanding Behaviour Maturities

Behaviours describe how engineers approach their work. They are assessed on a maturity scale:

Maturity Description
emerging Shows interest, needs prompting
developing Regularly applies with some guidance
practicing Consistently demonstrates in daily work
role_modeling Influences the team's approach, others seek them out
exemplifying Shapes organizational culture in this area

Career Progression

See what is expected at your current level:

npx fit-pathway progress software_engineering J040 --track=platform

Compare your current level with a target level to see what changes: 

npx fit-pathway progress software_engineering J040 --track=platform --compare=J060

The comparison highlights:

  • Skills where the expected proficiency increases
  • Behaviours where the expected maturity increases
  • New responsibilities that appear at the target level
  • Changes in scope and autonomy

This makes promotion criteria concrete — instead of vague descriptions, you see exactly which skills need to grow and by how much.