Title

Current Role

Interests

Current Skill

• Developer

• Analyst

• Technologist,

• PM

• Project Interest; Terminology;

• Pondering a field in IT Architecture

• IT analysis, design

• Construction

• project management

• staff management

• Senior Business or IT Leaders

• CIO, CTO, Business and IT Strategists

• PMO and Project Managers

• Executive Level Understanding of process, approach and benefits of architecture.

• Strategic planning, IT portfolio management;

• IT & Enterprise Architecture development, management

• Management;

• IT Portfolio;

• Strategic Planning;

• Budget Analysis;

• Project management

• Business

• Architecture Team Member,

• IT Architects

• Senior System Designer

• Guide and Define the current and future state of an organization

• Transition paths, standards & principles

• Lead or participate on EA Team

• IT Architect, Strategist, Leadership.

• Excel in concepts, planning, strategic.

• Sees the big picture;

• Extremely strong in abstracting the situations, processes.

• New or novice architects (various domains & types),

• senior developers,

• systems analysts & specialists

• Construct basic architecture artifacts, documentation

• Basic Funamentals and understanding of roles, skills, methods and process of IT Architect (various domains, EA)

• System Design & Analysis.

• Project, Solution or high level design responsibilities

System Architect

• Application or software architects;

• Senior systems analysts, senior developers & system designers;

• Solution architects;

• Functional process analysts

• Conversion of the requirements into an architecture and design that will become the blueprint for the solution being created

• Software design, System analysts, Solution scoping;

• Define the interaction between components;

• prototype;

• Background in software development methodologies

• Business architects,

• business analysts,

• systems analysts,

• solution architects

• Create business architecture artifacts;

• business transformation;

• Document Business Strategies, Capabilities,

• Processes from the architecture perspective

• Business and/or systems

• Participant in strategic planning,

• Business process redesign & requirement gathering;

• Models workflow & process

• Technical architects,

• technical specialists,

• infrastructure specialists,

• security architects

• Build a technology blueprint;

• select and analyze infrastructure components;

• Hardware configuration, software and solution technology components

• Understanding of the technical aspects of application, solutions and infrastructure.

• Technology specialties in some special areas such as hardware, operating systems, desktops, network, security, facilities, system software, operational processes.

• Design technology components for prescribed IT solutions.

I’ve been doing a lot of research lately on the resources available today on IT Architect Careers.  There isn’t much – a handful of books, a few websites and a couple of education offerings.  Career development has been a passion of mine for nearly 25 years – not sure why but I am fascinated to get a hold of the career section in the paper and have always been a go-to person when my colleagues and teams in architecture have been trying to decide what they might explore next.

I’ve decided it deserves to be in print and it’s been a work that’s been developing for nearly two years.  I finally have a name for this book that’s due from the publisher now April 28th, 2009 and it’s called “Architecting Your Career:  Build a Roadmap for Excellence in IT Architecture”.   It’s a partner to my architect career portal and so I’m so excited about it.

Here’s where you come in – I need to know the answer to this burning question as I’m trying to develop some bonus items for my book that will be accessible to those who buy it.  You can help by providing the answer to this one question.

Architect Abstract Ask Contest

At the end of the week, my assistant and I will draw the name for one who provide answers and they will win three free months membership on the career portal.  Deadline is February 28th, 2009

Happy Architecting!

I’m emerging from the haze of planning for my upcoming Architect Boot Camp classes.  My focus is editing my book, and between questions about “which course do I take” and “am I suited to be an architect”, I figured I’d write a series of posts related to the Architect’s Role.

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