Higher end professional fields have more clear educational paths and job roles. Talk to 100 lawyers/doctors and you'll hear 4-5 similar job roles. Technology is totally different, 100 tech people will describe 20 roles.

My professional career has been mostly engaged in implementation, customization, solution design and administration. I'm not a practitioner of Computer Science, I'm more like a hybrid of an engineer and a tradesman. I define an engineer as someone who applies known knowledge/methods and a scientist as someone seeking novel knowledge/methods. There's a spectrum between scientist, engineer, tradesman, technician, etc.

Technology is different because you can enter as a tech or even a finance person and move into some engineering roles without formal education. Only a few corners of tech are off limits without formal knowledge.