I'm thankful that I'm in a similar position at my current company. For the most part they just leave me alone and give me full access to everything, no jira sprints or anything, and they just let me focus on what I find most interesting which means I'm constantly working on something new and different.
That has allowed me to keep the entire department on the latest frameworks/runtimes (all with automated migrations), migrate our services over to Linux and ARM64, continuously help all the teams with the various issues they may have, and pickup random tasks (such as adding Okta support alongside our homegrown auth), all the while the rest of the devs teams just keep doing their own thing without being affected by this. I think it's good to have someone like this in your department, since they help keep everything running smoothly while filling in all the oddjobs you'd normally have to assign through a more bureaucratic structure.
That has allowed me to keep the entire department on the latest frameworks/runtimes (all with automated migrations), migrate our services over to Linux and ARM64, continuously help all the teams with the various issues they may have, and pickup random tasks (such as adding Okta support alongside our homegrown auth), all the while the rest of the devs teams just keep doing their own thing without being affected by this. I think it's good to have someone like this in your department, since they help keep everything running smoothly while filling in all the oddjobs you'd normally have to assign through a more bureaucratic structure.