I believe this is a good time for going from Engineer -> Architect mindset. You don’t need to wait for a formal career progression.

When I got into tech, as an engineer, I enjoyed learning as much as I could about building systems.

Systems are comprised of technology, people, and business needs.

How can we help our customers in the best way possible given some constraints (usually $$).

For example, perhaps at the current scale, the customer needs search but the company cannot afford deploying ElasticSearch. You are already using postgres, and you have 80 million candidate records. How can you make this system work until you have a billion records and need ES?

Honestly, I have no idea what the future holds but this is how I view things.