How do you create an environment that supports the professional growth and development of tech leads within your organization?

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Anonymous · Accepted Answer

I had a senior engineer who was technically very strong and showed interest in
becoming a tech lead. The team was in need of a tech lead so I wanted to grow
this senior engineer into a tech lead. 
A Tech Lead is more than just being technically strong. I first made sure the
senior engineer is aware of what it means to be a tech lead for the team. Their
technical responsibilities and how they will need to start working with XFN
partners that are also non engineers when needed. Where this senior engineer was
lacking to become a good tech lead was in communicating with non-eng XFN
partners. The senior engineer was used to speaking with engineers who would
understand their language. I started including the senior engineer into meetings
and motivated him to run some meetings and discussion topics to get better a
communication. After a few months, this senior engineer grew into a level where
they were able to do a presentation in front of non-eng very effectively. After
seeing the engineer can be an effective tech lead, I officially made him our
tech lead but some of our stakeholders already thought he was the tech lead!

Anonymous · Answer

Developing a tech lead starts with identifying someone who not only shows
technical depth but also demonstrates curiosity, ownership, and the ability to
influence others. My role is to nurture those traits into leadership skills
through structured support, trust, and clarity.

Anonymous · Answer

At xyz, I would look out for people who would make the maximum impact - impact
is not just shipping high quality code but also elevating others to higher
standards. Would this person step in and help others fix the issues. For e.g.
one of my directs - not only got up to speed on ELK and Kafka - she went above
and beyond - setting up standards and creating a library so other teams can
easily adopt to thier project. She become a SME and the impact was that she had
on other teams was 10-15% increased velocity. 
My job was to enable this person to be in the front to help solve their issues
all along making impact on the projects she was responsible. This paved way to
be promoted to Tech Lead - which is what she aspired.

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