GP's "design the right solution" is a role between "programmer" and "business analyst" that got merged with "programmer" to become "developer" decades ago. That

GP's "design the right solution" is a role between "programmer" and "business analyst" that got merged with "programmer" to become "developer" decades ago. That's where the high salary came from. It's been reemerging as "architect" now that "developer" has been watered down to include "programmer".