In my experience, management will generally not care about your career development and will prefer to hire a senior engineer from outside to avoid internal conf

In my experience, management will generally not care about your career development and will prefer to hire a senior engineer from outside to avoid internal conflicts. The best way to progress your career is to train yourself up externally. For example, is there an open source project you would like to contribute to ? It is also worth to attend tech group meetings in your area of expertise. As everything is done remotely now, this has become even easier.