Internationalization Engineer

Definition

Internationalization Engineer

the role that is played when a person engineers one or more systems, applications, or components to meet their internationalization requirements and thereby work properly in the associated countries

Classification

As illustrated in the preceding figure, Internationalization Engineer is part of the following inheritance hierarchy:

• Type: Concrete
• Superclass: Engineer
• Subclasses:
  • None

Responsibilities

The typical role-specific responsibilities of an Internationalization Engineer are to:

• Collaborate closely with the software designers, database designers, programmers, and content translators to ensure that the software components are properly internationalized for specific target:
  • Countries.
  • Languages and dialects.
  • Cultures.

Internationalization Engineer typically inherits the general role responsibilities from the Role method component.

Expertise

To fulfill these responsibilities, internationalization engineers typically should have the following expertise, training, and experience:

• A bachelor’s degree in the software engineering.
• Training in internationalization techniques and patterns.
• A bachelor’s degree in the relevant foreign languages of the project.

Tasks

Internationalization Engineers typically perform the following role-specific tasks in an iterative, incremental, parallel, and time-boxed manner:

• Content Internationalization

Internationalization Engineer typically inherits common role tasks from the role method component.

Teams

Internationalization engineers typically perform these tasks as members of the following teams:

• Content Management Team
• Software Development Team
• Project Team

Work Products

As members of these teams, internationalization engineers typically produce all or part of the following work products:

• Internationalized:
  • Data Component (Content)
  • SoftwareComponent

Guidelines

• Internationalization engineers ensure that the software components (e.g., classes, procedures, databases) are designed and implemented to support handling the appropriate languages, currencies, taxes, etc.). It is the content translators who actually translate the textual data (i.e., content) into the foreign languages.
• Naturally, the role is only needed if there are internationalization requirements.
• This role typically inherits the common team guidelines from the roles method component.