As a software architect, am I supposed to focus that much on analysing the logs and fixing other's bugs?

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Published on 2012-12-13T13:30:13Z Indexed on 2012/12/13 17:16 UTC
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Since my graduation (late 2005) I was working for the same company as a c++ software engineer. A year ago I was promoted as a software architect but I have found myself involved more and more in qualification and fixing bugs, level 2 support.

50% of my time spent in Notepad++ analysing the software logs and trying to figure out what went wrong. 30% fixing other's bugs and the remaining (if any) reviewing developers spaghetti code.

I started hating this product and thinking about an exit strategy out of this company.

What do you think I can do in this situation? do you other software architect still fixing bugs in the code?

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