senior-engineering-manager.md

Senior Engineering Manager

👩‍👨 People

Level 2

Level 3

Demonstrate people development skills of individual contributors and managers motivating coaching mentoring empowering helping individual to increase their performance Manage performance of significant number of individuals (6 to 9) 1:1 Onboarding new members, helping them to make the most of their onboarding. Career development & progression Handling leaving members Coach and offer support to less experienced managers to deal with their issues Engineering management team Lead departemental initiatives Participate actively in management meetings Performance calibrations Read and share feedback for a significant number of non line managed individual contributors Read and share feedback for non senior managers Promotion & in-band payrise Read and share feedback for non line managed individuals Suggest strategy for best allocation of budget every round Rotation Actively look for opportunities in the coming quaters for managed individuals Helping fill opportunities for other managers for the wider benefit of teams and the department Hiring & Handling resignation Suggest improvements to hiring process and activities Convince people to remain when handling their resignation

Engineering management team Champion other people impactful ideas Achieve significany management practices improvement through leading an initiative Performance calibrations Drive performance calibrations meeting Lead continuous changes that improve calibrations process Hiring & Retention Coach less senior managers in dealing with resignation Lead and coordinate all hiring activities and processes Suggest and discuss strategies with Director of Engineering for reducing vacancy rate Suggest and discuss strategies with Director of Engineering for improving retention

🚚 Delivery

Level 2

Level 3

Delivery focus Champions the importance of delivery in their team Helps to unblock obstacles Supports technically their team in delivering its goals Share with a wider group importance of delivery Delivery pace Is conscious about team delivery pace Understand impact of management on it Identify bottlenecks in delivery pace Collaborate on continuously improving pace of their team Resolve bottlenecks in delivery pace Share with other senior managers opportunity to improve Ensure small changes with high impact are released quickly not just added to the backlog Health Participate in definining key metrics for systems owned by team Ensure team monitors key metrics for systems owned by team Evaluate and decide time to spend on health each quarter Demonstrate improvements on specific key metrics Ensure the right balance between Health and OKR between quarters,engaging product and scrum master in the process Technical contribution Continue to write code at least once a month and release features but avoid being in the critical path Regularly review significant team PRs Accountable for the architecture of the systems owned by the stream Delegate architecture reponsibility when appropriate of the systems owned by the stream Context awareness Understands the capabilities of their team and communicates that clearly to stakeholders Understands the constraints placed on the business Demonstrate flexibility to adapt to those constraints Suggest reasonable changes to the constraints that help solve stakeholder issues

Delivery pace Identify structural issues preventing pace to improve Suggest advanced changes to solve identified bottlenecks in other teams Health Suggest structural improvements that would benefit multiple teams

▶️ Leadership

Level 2

Level 3

Team Communicate progress and achievements to the department Recognise outstanding works from individuals within team Ensure there is, but don't orgnanise, demo of team work Ensures that all members of their team have a clear grasp of the KR for their products and that they are focused on improving them Teams Manage multiple teams directly or indirectly Stakeholders Communicate technical challenges and opporrtunities in the domain area of their team in a clear way to stakeholders Lead resolution of complex issues through high-level relevant interaction with senior stakeholders Make an active effort to build relationships, trust and influence with key stakeholders Strategy Share technical opportunities with Director of Engineering Participate in defining OKR for the stream with Group Product Manager Accountable Ownership Clearly communicate and share ownership of existing systems Help decide where ownership of new systems seat Evangelise simplicity Engage with product in removing rarely used features Encourage clear and readable code, organised in way that divides implementation in independant units of work Promote a change that reduce size of code base Ablity to operate at multiple levels Stay connected to the details and is able to participate in technical discussion about issues Challenge tech leaders about reasonings and data behind technical decisions Articulate benefits and tradeoffs of technical solutions to convince senior stakeholders Vendors relationship Responsibile for the relationship with a key vendor

Teams Demonstrate ability to stretch, managing temporary more than 2 teams Highest standards Insist on the highest standards to drive their teams to deliver as as fast as possible, high-quality products, services and processes Continuously raising the bar to improve our standards and do better Ability to operate at multiple levels Engage and challenge key stakeholders on business strategy Strategy Discuss and advise relative importance of technology opportunities with Director of Engineering Influence and contribute to product strategy

💷 Costs Managements

Level 2

Level 3

Health Monitor system and delivery pipeline health Participate in defining health tasks Share with stakeholders importance of health for sustainability Operating costs Ensure costs remain within allocated budget Ensure cost-efficiency of existing and news projects Evaluate costs of new projects providing recommendations for costs-efficiceny and trade-offs Accountable for operating costs of their Stream

Operating costs Participate actively in annual operational and resource costs forecast activities Build cost model enabling anticipation of costs based on demand Engage with senior stakeholders about operating costs impact of decisions and strategies