engineering-manager.md

Engineering Manager

👩‍👨 People

Level 2

Level 3

Demonstrate people development skills of individual contributors motivating coaching mentoring empowering helping individual to increase their performance Manage performance of significant number of individuals (6) 1:1 Onboarding new members, helping them to make the most of their onboarding. Career development & progression Handling leaving members Engineering management team Participate actively in led by other departemental initiatives Participate actively in management meetings Performance calibrations Read and share feedback for some non line managed individuals Promotions and In-band payrise Read submissions for non line managed individuals

Demonstrate people development skills of individual contributors Is being recognised for helping individuals to improve Provide extensive feedback to indiviudal on how to improve Performance calibrations Read and share feedback for a significant number of non line managed individuals Promotions and In-band payrise Read and share feedback for some non line managed individuals Quarterly rotation Actively look for opportunities in the coming quarters for managed individuals Help resolve rotation gap suggesting individuals that would best fit Hiring & Handling resignation Suggest improvements to hiring process and activities Convince people to remain when handling their resignation

🚚 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 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 Technical contribution Continue to write code at least once a week and release features, but avoid being on the critical path. Continue to review significant PR and talking through problems with team members Continue to help diagnosing issue or fix some of them Context awareness Understands the constraints placed on the business. Demonstrate flexibility to adapt to those constraints. Understands the capabilities of their team and communicates that clearly to stakeholders.

Delivery pace Resolve bottlenecks in delivery pace Share with senior managers opportunity to improve Ensure small changes with high impact are released quickly not just added to the backlog Health Ensure the right balance between Health and OKR between quarters,engaging product and scrum master in the process Context awareness Suggest reasonable changes to the constraints that help solve stakeholder issues

▶️ 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 Stakeholders Communicate technical challenges and opportunities in the domain area of their team in a clear way to stakeholders Strategy Share technical opportunities with their manager Participate in defining OKR team with product manager

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

💷 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 Understand details of costs structure Participate in costs reduction initiatives Ensure costs remain within allocated budget	Operating costs Evaluate costs of new projects providing recommendations for cost-efficiency and trade-offs