That's why the riskiest moment in an engineer's career is the jump up from senior: The things that get you a strong senior review and the things that get you promoted to architect/principal/staff are completely different. You can end up in a situation where you've done a little too much glue, but not good enough to claim you were doing architect work, while that time meant you did less than expected of a senior doing heads down work. Try to do this with a bad manager, and you are heading for a Pip.
Which gets us back to the most important rule of a software engineer's career: make sure that the person writing your reviews really likes you.
Which gets us back to the most important rule of a software engineer's career: make sure that the person writing your reviews really likes you.