What I mean is - is it generally a person in a technical role or a management role that determines the items to do in the next sprint and general priority of what issues to address when? I'm moving into a more senior role and people are asking me to essentially determine the direction of the project, but I'm a developer, engineer, I can design software systems, architecture, but I'm not interested in organizing what features to take on next to address customers or interval concerns best, or planning other developers' time. Is this abnormal, am I supposed to become a manager as seniority increases?
I think in "true" agile the whole team determines what is in the next sprint. It's not really supposed to be about managing deliverables or other people's time, it's supposed to be the team agreeing on what they can/want to get done in the next sprint. Unfortunately most businesses can't or refuse to operate in a way that will work with this, so developers tend to lose their voice in the planning stages.
OP congrats. You're venturing into an EM or a PO role.
You should work with your product manager
In true scaled agile, the Product Owner owns the backlog and the features (requirements/epics) of the sprint. The technical teams merely divides those features into user stories. In simpler terms, the tech teams never write the requirements for any dev cycle. That’s the role of the product teams.
Depends on the company and team. In most FAANG, senior is expected to be able to set technician direction and TL in this way.
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Have a convo with your manager that you want to stay on the technical work side and not the people work track