Common EIT Roles

Role Name	Role Description
Architecture Team	See Architect.
Access Manager	The Applications manages applications throughout their lifecycle. This role plays an important part in the application-related aspects of designing, testing, operating and improving IT services. It is also responsible for developing the skills required to operate the applications required to deliver IT services.
Application Developer(s)	The Application Developer is responsible for making available applications and systems which provide the required functionality for IT services. This includes the development and maintenance of custom applications as well as the customization of products from software vendors.
Application Owner	An application owner is the individual or group with the responsibility to ensure that the program or programs, which make up the application, accomplish the specified objective or set of user requirements established for that application, including appropriate security safeguards. itlaw.wikia.com/wiki/Application_owner
Architect	An EIT Architect is responsible for design of a computing system and the logical and physical interrelationships between its components. The architecture specifies the hardware, software, access methods and protocols used throughout the system. Bigger organizations may opt to introduce specialist architect roles like Business Architect, Application Architect, Information Architect, or Infrastructure Architect.
Availability Manager	The Availability Manager is responsible for defining, analyzing, planning, measuring and improving all aspects of the availability of IT services and for ensuring that all IT infrastructure, processes, tools, roles etc. are appropriate for the agreed service level targets for availability.
Backup Process Manager	The Backup Process Manager is responsible for defining and assuring the viability of the Backup Process. Backup and recovery are essential to assuring service continuity. The recovery procedures are defined first, and then backup procedures and their frequency are based on the needs of the recovery procedures.
Business Analyst/SME	Business Analysts work as liaison among stakeholders in order to understand the structure, policies, and operations of an organization, and to recommend solutions that enable the organization to achieve its goals
Business Architect	A business architect is concerned with developing and maintaining business capabilities of the enterprise in line with the corporate strategy as well as contributing to the business strategy and plans.
Business Architecture Team	See Business Architect
Business Continuity Manager	Person who identifies potential threats to an organization and the impacts to business operations those threats, if realized, might cause, and which provides a framework for building organizational resilience.
Business Executive	A Business Executive is a person appointed and given the responsibility to manage the affairs of an organization and the authority to make decisions within specified boundaries. http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/executive.html
Business Management Team	See Business Manager
Business Manager	1. Person authorized to grant access to service/application 2. A user representative authorized to negotiate with EIT on behalf of the business area.
Business Owner	See Business Product Owner
Business Partner	A business partner is a commercial entity with which another commercial entity has some form of alliance. Businesses that cooperate, to any degree, such as a computer manufacturer who works exclusively with another company who supplies them with parts. Read more: http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/business-partner.html
Business Product Owner	This role is not clearly differentiated from that of the Product Owner (in agile terms) or the Product Manager (in commercial software companies). “The Product Owner (PO) is the member of the team responsible for defining Stories and prioritizing the Team Backlog so as to streamline the execution of program priorities, while maintaining conceptual and technical integrity of the Features or components the team is responsible for.” scaledagileframework.com/product-owner/
Business Relationship Mgr/ Mgt Team	The Business Relationship Manager is responsible for maintaining a positive relationship with customers, identifying customer needs and ensuring that the service provider is able to meet these needs with an appropriate catalogue of services.
Business Subject Matter Expert	See Subject Matter Expert
Business Unit	A logical element or segment of a company (such as accounting, production, marketing) representing a specific business function, and a definite place on the organizational chart, under the domain of a manager. Also called department, division, or a functional area. www.businessdictionary.com/definition/business-unit.html