2 demands on a senior developer

A) participate in new projects, discussions with external ( => using high-level terms), feasibility discussions (=> high-level terms)

B) prod support, answering questions, mostly low-level.

A examples: GDR, TPS elimination, mtg, sim

A is “high-level”. B requires low-level nlg. I lack both => both stressful.

B is typical of a consultant’s job. A is usually not open to consultants. Consultants receive the information after those discussions.
I’m more of a low-level person. i like to read the code to build my nlg bottom up. Many (all?) managers learnt the system top-down.