Short answer: you can't. Even the 'career ladder' positions like architect, engineering manager or even sometimes tech lead will eventually turn into less codin

Short answer: you can't. Even the 'career ladder' positions like architect, engineering manager or even sometimes tech lead will eventually turn into less coding and finally no coding. Instead you'll report progress of what coders are doing, present solution designs and plans, estimate effort and cost, analyse third party solutions, spend your time in excel and powerpoint etc etc