Senior Production Engineer → Team Lead

Transferable skills

• Technical guidance

Skills to learn

• Delivery coordination
• Mentoring
• Prioritisation
• Communication
• Planning
• 1:1 & feedback

Step-by-step learning plan

1. 1. Build on your Senior Production Engineer experience

   2–4 weeks

   Leverage

   • Technical guidance

   Map transferable skills — Technical guidance — against what a Team Lead needs.

2. 2. Close the partial gaps toward Team Lead

   3–6 weeks

   Improve

   • Team leadership

   Raise Team leadership to the level a Team Lead relies on.

3. 3. Learn the core of the Team Lead role

   6–10 weeks

   Learn

   • Delivery coordination
   • Mentoring
   • Prioritisation

   Technologies

   JiraConfluenceAzure DevOps

   Cover the biggest gaps first: Delivery coordination, Mentoring, Prioritisation.

4. 4. Master advanced Team Lead skills

   6–10 weeks

   Learn

   • Communication
   • Planning
   • 1:1 & feedback

   Technologies

   GitHubTeamsSlack

   Handle the advanced topics: Communication, Planning, 1:1 & feedback.

5. 5. Get productive with the Team Lead toolchain

   4–8 weeks

   Technologies

   JiraConfluenceAzure DevOpsGitHubTeamsSlackExcelPowerPoint

   Be hands-on with Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps and the rest of the target stack.

6. 6. Practise Team Lead work in real conditions

   4–8 weeks

   Ship a portfolio project or take on Team Lead tasks at work.

7. 7. Get certified and position yourself as a Team Lead

   4–8 weeks

   Technologies

   PSM ISAFe PractitionerITIL 4 Foundation

   Update your CV and LinkedIn around Team Lead, then apply to target roles.

Alternative routes

• Senior System Engineer → Team Lead