Define team objectives and project goals, ensuring alignment with the company's broader strategies and objectives. Facilitate communication within the squad and across technical and non-technical teams, ensuring alignment and timely delivery of high-quality outcomes. Actively participating in the recruitment, training, and development of team members, fostering a productive and growth-oriented environment. Collaborating with other technical leaders, aligning technology strategies and contributing to the evolution of the company's technical direction. Ensuring the technical quality of deliverables, providing guidance and support in solving complex problems. Promote the adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices within your squad and chapter, leveraging tools for code generation, automated refactoring, test case creation, and technical documentation. Identify opportunities where AI can enhance developer productivity, code quality, and team velocity. Guide conversations to remove blockers and encourage collaboration in your team. Collaborate with the Product Owner to ensure technical initiatives, such as refactoring, performance tuning, and tech debt—are properly scoped and prioritized within the product backlog. Ensure implementation of quality and observability standards, including automated testing, monitoring, alerting, and logging across the development lifecycle. Lead retrospectives and continuous improvement efforts, driving team evolution through feedback and actionable insights. Support team staffing decisions by matching people to tasks based on skills, priorities, and development opportunities. Support the definition and follow-up of individual development goals aligned with team objectives and business priorities.