DremeMynd

Katrina wolfe

Software Architect / Senior Engineer

Technical Leader

I'm a good technical leader with strong development skills and the ability to quickly learn and understand complex systems. I'm passionate about the software, hardware and people which together are the system which bring value to customers.

What is good technical leadership?

Good technical leaders have good listening skills, and take the time to understand competing objectives and balance the business problem, uncover the customer end-goal (not just the single request or the stated need), and set a course for fulfilling those goals in a product vision.

Good technical leaders are strategic. They understand how to balance the demand of system design and product management. It is important to set a course for long-term improvement and not quickly settle for increasing technical debt for short-term fixes. This can be done without compromising on customer deliverables.

Good technical leaders are cross-functional collaborators. They negotiate at a strategic level, with diverse stakeholders throughout the organization, providing leadership by developing technical solutions, without letting their egos block progress or prevent them from changing directions when needed. They take collaborative ownership over the health and future of the product.

Good technical leaders are technical. They have a strong background working hands on with technology, bringing that expertise to their work. It's important to collaborate with both business and development leadership to identify a technical vision and drive that forward. It's also important to stay in touch with the technologies the system is built with now, and might be built with in the future.