The best engineering leaders I’ve worked with balanced 3 things really well:

Capable of building high quality, well architected software

Constantly optimized for speed and productivity (devops, agile, AI) 

Had a strong vision and POV on the future, and knew which emergent/disruptive tech trends to care about

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It’s funny you wrote that because I debated adding it in. 
This was actually something I tweeted a few years ago, I’ve been reading old tweets and reposting some here 🙃

great leaders prioritize software quality and productivity while staying abreast of emerging tech trends

Hmmmm,interesting 
They must really know their work very well