Level 14

Communication

• regularly summarizes research and shares, maybe via blog or gists
• gives talks at conferences and in their company
• successfully communicates technical topics to a wide variety of audiences

Leading

• paves the way for the next leaders
• provides leadership opportunities for others
• takes risks making decisions
• fails and gets up and keeps going
• succeeds and shares the success with the rest of the team

• leads by actions and not just by words

• track record of building successful teams
• formalizing (summarizing) progress in reports for management
• together with the team members, set concrete self-development goals (for the team members) so that leadership is consistent and verifiable (regular one-to-one meetings where the team member can express their concerns, desires, and joys)
• Insights are genuinely brilliant because they fully support the definition of success for the project, find a balance between costs and benefits for everyone involved, and are the kinds of ideas that just make sense.

Ownership

• management
• architects
• something else

Technical

• Recognised expert in their field of specialisation
• Actively working on/creating the latest tech
• Has taken active steps to break bad habits they recognised they had by level 13
• Able to apply experience in seemingly unrelated areas in order to provide valuable insight