Role of an architect

Expectation

• Know big picture

  • Keep many different components at mind and see how they work

  • Know at higher level, not the low level

• Management and developers look at you for the answer

• Non functional requirement handling

  • Performance

  • Scalability

  • High availability

  • Will the change cause any bug?

  • Which part of software need change/refactoring for technical debt?

• He is a teacher not the dictator

• Training and upskilling team

• Guide developers for solution

• Reviews all major design initiatives

• Collaboration with developer, management, product managers, operations and infrastructure engineers, other architects

• Constantly listening and responding to feedbacks

Types of architects

• Development architect

• Operation architect

Environment for architect

• A motivated team

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