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Discussion on: Top 5 Career Options for Senior and Experienced Developers

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Matt Eland

Nice article!

Don't forget lead engineer or HR manager. I'm personally a software engineering manager watching over a team of 4 and still writing plenty of code myself.

My own insight into the scrum master role is that it's one best suited to give to non-management employees as a way to develop their own leadership skills as they look to foster communication.

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Stephen Senkomago Musoke

Matt thanks for pointing this out, you do not always have to stop writing code (I circled back from 3 year management stint)

In addition to Lead Engineer, there is always the Developer Advocate/Evangelist who drives adoption and use of best practices within the craft in an organisation across teams and across initiatives