The competencies for Technology Director in Engineering are outlined below. Before reviewing them, it is helpful to review how to use these competencies.
Effectively manages activities within the available people, resources and keeps to expected or communicated timelines. Includes contributing to task break-down and estimating.
Aligns strategies, sets clear objectives, and expertly communicates the organisational vision. Prioritises and balances people and resources across teams, ensuring strategic alignment with business goals. Manages all delivery against budget and financial plans.
Works independently as an individual at each level, showing self-reliance and initiative, and takes responsibility for completing tasks and seeing them through to completion.
Demonstrates a strong sense of responsibility and autonomy, guiding their team’s technical direction and delivery against objectives.
Makes well-judged and timely decisions, identifies problems, and creates effective solutions.
Employs problem-solving strategies and promotes creative solutions across their own team and the wider organisation. Makes high-impact decisions, seeking data to support choices and accurately weighing risks, benefits and cost impact.
Recognises the broader business context and strategically aligns actions to support organisational goals.
Develops and implements technology strategies that drive business growth, shape the technology roadmap, and achieve business goals. Practices financial and vendor management to deliver on strategy for own department and wider business.
Effectively listens, understands, and conveys messages in a way that is appropriate to the audience - including verbal, written, use of diagrammes. Uses a range of techniques to influence and make persuasive arguments. Adopts a patient, empathic style, avoids jargon, and checks for understanding in others.
Clearly articulates departmental strategies and wider business context, tailors messages for intended audiences, and delivers challenging messages skillfully. Proactively communicates with stakeholders internally and externally (including vendors).
Collaborates effectively across the organisation.
Oversees and drives collaborative efforts across their teams and the wider organisation, ensuring strategic alignment, resolving complex issues and conflicts, builds strong cross-division relationships, and champions a culture where collective efforts achieve strategic goals.
Continuously seeks and creates opportunities for learning and growth.
Fosters a culture of curiosity and continuous learning by elaborating training strategies, promoting peer-to-peer learning, adopting new methodologies, and motivating team members to embrace learning.
Guides oneself and inspires & develops others to achieve common goals. Reflects on their personal growth to identify areas to enhance their performance and for further development.
Guides and leads engineering teams across multiple functional areas, developing the next generation of leadership talent, fostering a high-performance organisation. Leads with deep empathy, championing diversity and inclusion across the organisation.
Demonstrates and shares technical and domain expertise, and develops high-quality, secure and reliable software solutions following industry standards.