-Focuses on the bigger picture, identifying and prioritizing with the aim to consider more than one domain in this analysis.
-Creates project proposals and designs that have considerable impact or touch multiple systems.
-Technical designs are clear, well thought out, and considers dependencies, failure states, maintainability, testability and ease of support.
-Studies scalability, reliability and performance of systems/contexts affected when defining technical designs.
-Has a thorough understanding of the team’s domain, how work in this domain relates to the team's objectives and deliverables and how it contributes to overall business strategy and how technical strategy maps to this.
-Understands the organization’s company strategy and how the engineering strategy aligns to this.
-Thoroughly understands the business model in relation to their current product focus area.
-Looks for opportunities to simplify product & technical design.
-Able to communicate processes and results with all parties involved in the product team, including engineers, product owner, scrum master, third party vendors and customers.
-Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
-Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.