The work gets wider

An architect still needs the engineering, but the day is also stakeholders, constraints, and a design other people can implement.

If your examples stop at the code you wrote, the conversation stays at engineer.

Trade-offs are the evidence

Bring one case where two reasonable options existed. Say who was affected, what it cost, and which risk you accepted.

Microsoft Fabric, Azure, Synapse, or a lakehouse only help the story if they are tied to that decision.

Ask for the gap, then close it

List the conversations you have not led yet: a pre-sales pitch, a security review, a cost argument. Those are the practice sessions.

A mentoring hour is more useful when you arrive with that gap written down.