What Does An IT Architect Do?

WHAT DOES AN IT ARCHITECT DO?

Updated: Dec 05, 2025 - The Information Technology (IT) Architect analyzes, designs, and develops domain roadmaps that align with business strategies, while identifying and implementing system and process improvements. This role involves overseeing project planning and technical delivery, maintaining domain standards for security and performance, and evaluating emerging technologies for potential integration. The architect also provides architectural guidance, creates technical documentation, mentors team members, and recommends integration solutions through detailed assessments and presentations to management.

A Review of Professional Skills and Functions for IT Architect

1. IT Architect Roles

User Story Management: Ensure that features are being broken down into User Stories reflecting business requirements.
Product Quality Assurance: Responsible for the quality of the product design and solutions delivered by Falck Global IT.
Stakeholder Engagement: Involve, influence, and challenge stakeholders and decision makers across business and IT.
Agile Collaboration: Cooperate with the Agile Team to ensure that the implementation meets the agreed-upon architecture.
Cross-Solution Management: Manage potential cross-solution or cross-organizational impacts of solution design and architecture.
Architecture Development: Support the Architecture Center of Excellence in building Architecture road maps.
Technology Enablement: Inspire and influence others regarding new ways of working by leveraging technology.
Continuous Improvement: Responsible for supporting continuous improvement.
Architectural Consistency: Cooperate with Architects across teams to ensure consistency across solutions and optimization.
IT Standardization: Drive IT consolidation and standardization.
Architecture Governance: Ensure adherence to IT Architecture principles, Architecture standards, Architecture methods and Architecture tools.

2. IT Architect General Responsibilities

Strategy Development: Develop and maintain a strategy for implementing project requirements in all business areas.
Business Cooperation: Manage cooperation between businesses to prioritize the portfolio of all changes to applications in the schedule.
Governance Design: Design and implement architecture governance processes.
Architectural Vision: Develop an architectural vision and define architectural principles in the integration area.
Compliance Supervision: Supervise compliance with the principles of architectural order.
Project Oversight: Supervise the implementation of projects and programs in terms of their compliance with the developed models of IT architecture.
Requirements Management: Manage architectural requirements.
Architecture Promotion: Promote the use of the concept of IT architecture within the organization and with its partners.
Solution Support: Support projects in solution design.
Integration Ownership: Architecture ownership of the integration platform.

3. IT Architect Roles and Responsibilities

Data Development: Hands-on participation in data design and development.
Software Engineering: Familiar with software engineering design and principles.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Create and establish working partnerships with various technology and business groups across UL.
System Design: Produce system design documents and lead technical walkthroughs.
Data Analysis: Responsible for data analysis, validation, and conversion.
Solution Design: Design solutions to meet functional and non-functional requirements.
Risk Management: Minimize technical exposure and risk on projects.
Business Collaboration: Collaborate with business users to develop solutions that meet specific business objectives.
Infrastructure Validation: Understand, validate, and action infrastructure impacts on solution architecture.
Architecture Design: Design, validate, and execute the architecture vision.
Technical Coordination: Coordinate solutions from a technical perspective and minimize technical risk.
Operational Support: Operate and support teams to take into account operational (non-functional) requirements.

4. IT Architect Duties and Roles

API Management: Establish API management/governance mechanisms and processes that support design, publish, and deploy APIs.
API Documentation: Record documentation, descriptions, usage limits, runtime capabilities, and other information relevant to oversight of APIs.
API Strategy: Define the API strategy, API usage guidelines, and governance process for API lifecycle management; define best practices.
API Design: Articulate, design, and implement APIs, API security, API scalability, API types, and all aspects of APIs.
Client Engagement: Engage on client projects as a trusted advisor and architect.
Integration Architecture: Address integration questions, provide architecture recommendations, educate client teams, identify new business integration requirements, and support project delivery.
Code Review: Oversee and coordinate internal reviews, such as code reviews.
Stakeholder Communication: Lead discussions with executives and other technical stakeholders on how the specific API will be designed and implemented.
Deployment Management: Configure and deploy Mule applications to CloudHub, Hybrid, Anypoint Runtime Fabric, and/or single or clusters of customer-hosted Mule runtimes.
Web Services: Implement and consume REST and SOAP web services.
Flow Configuration: Create and configure flows, sub-flows, and flow processing strategies for reusability and performance.
Technical Support: Provide technical support to functional consultants during system integration and user acceptance testing, implementing code changes.
Team Collaboration: Actively participate in different team ceremonies and take ownership of topics to get things done.
Team Support: Help other team members to push things forward as a team.
Mentorship: Mentor other team members on MuleSoft development technologies, tools, and processes.

5. IT Architect Details

Digital Strategy: Drive digital workplace architecture strategy by partnering with business leadership.
Infrastructure Management: Understand, validate, and provide infrastructure needs across the global enterprise.
Technical Planning: Work within cross-functional teams to provide technical expertise in the planning and design of business initiatives as they relate to the digital workplace.
System Architecture: Architect systems focused on the user experience in the unified workspace.
Lifecycle Design: Design with the endpoint and application lifecycle in mind, including device procurement, OS deployment, application deployment, device health monitoring, firmware/driver updating, OS/application patching, and device/application retirement.
Security Design: Design for a secure unified workspace using CIS benchmarks or other security best practices.
Network Architecture: Architect a corporate network using technologies like SDWAN, Global Protect VPN, etc.
Enterprise Documentation: Create Enterprise Architecture (EA) documents to support and capture designs.

6. IT Architect Duties

Team Leadership: Provide direct supervision and oversight of the efforts of the Enterprise Systems Linux team.
Innovation Management: Create an environment and culture that encourages innovation and productivity.
Mentorship Development: Mentor team members to encourage professional growth and improve overall team capability.
Task Delegation: Delegate projects and tasks to team members.
Performance Evaluation: Evaluate staff performance, guide team members in developing goals, and track goal progress.
Strategic Planning: Participate in planning and strategy development for Microsoft systems and platform environments.
Team Coordination: Coordinate efforts of the Enterprise Systems Linux team to align with the overall KU IT strategy.
Server Management: Design, install, and manage the operation of servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Ubuntu Linux.
System Automation: Design, install, and manage the operation of Linux enterprise systems and automation platforms.

7. IT Architect Job Description

Solution Development: Lead the development of solutions for projects requiring IT enterprise services.
Maintenance Coordination: Coordinate proactive and emergency maintenance.
Capacity Planning: Perform capacity planning and performance monitoring.
Automation Implementation: Design, implement, and support automation systems to increase productivity.
Cloud Systems: Assist in the design, implementation, and operation of systems utilizing cloud computing environments.
Process Orchestration: Design and implement orchestration and automation systems to streamline operations.
Performance Monitoring: Conduct capacity planning and performance monitoring.
Technical Support: Serve as the first point of contact for Linux-based enterprise systems and supporting components.
Emergency Management: Manage and provide an escalation point for the 24-hour on-call rotation for emergency support.

8. IT Architect Tasks

Network Architecture: Lead the development and architecture of network-focused solutions in the Refining OT environment that increase reliability, security, and the capability to deliver desired business outcomes.
Data Collaboration: Collaborate with other IT teams to identify and capitalize on opportunities to increase data availability from the OT environment.
OT Implementation: Partner with the Refining on-site OT Specialist teams in implementing approved OT network-focused architectures and technologies.
Team Mentorship: Actively engage in training and mentoring the network-focused aspects of the Refining on-site OT Specialist team’s responsibilities.
Standardization Strategy: Pursue standardized architectures and related networking solutions first, facilitating dialogue and alignment when deviations are needed for competitive advantage.
Cybersecurity Engagement: Work with Cybersecurity teams to efficiently assess and understand the risk levels associated with requested or proposed solutions.
Risk Assessment: Evaluate the operational benefits of network solutions and technologies for prioritization and an appropriate balance between risk and value.
Compliance Knowledge: Maintain a working knowledge of Enterprise and Refining OT Standards and their impact on the support or compliance of designed or implemented solutions.
Stakeholder Relations: Maintain strong working relationships with the Refining Controls Technologist Team and the Controls Advisory Group.
Strategic Alignment: Stay aligned with business priorities and the strategic roadmap for the Refining OT environment.
Cross-Team Collaboration: Consult and work collaboratively with all Refining IT CAP Team OT-focused members in prioritizing, developing, and executing projects, architectures, and technology solutions across the Refining OT environment.
Problem Solving: Solve complex problems and take a broad perspective to identify effective solutions.

9. IT Architect Responsibilities and Key Tasks

Enterprise Collaboration: Liaise/collaborate with a global team of Enterprise Architects in building the Architecture/IT Strategy for the Vodafone Group.
Architecture Planning: Contribute to the definition of the Local Target Architecture and Roadmap to implement the Company’s Business Strategy and Objectives.
Technical Oversight: Take care of both Application, Middleware, and Infrastructure topics across all Telco Domains (BSS/OSS).
Strategy Alignment: Bridge the IT Strategy and the actual Local IT Execution.
Guideline Development: Develop a set of detailed guidelines/architectural patterns to be fulfilled locally in line with the Technology Strategy.
Solution Blueprinting: Blueprint solutions for local strategic projects, enabling the actual Delivery phases.
Architectural Consulting: Provide architectural consultancy services to all IT Stakeholders across the whole project lifecycle (from demand to post-delivery maintenance).
Department Facilitation: Act as a facilitator between IT and other Departments.
Performance Tracking: Maintain a set of Architectural Deliverables/KPIs that express the makeup of the IT programs.
Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities for improvement in any area, whether it be people, process, or technology, in an ongoing manner.
Trend Awareness: Curious about self-assessing emerging industry and technology trends.

10. IT Architect Duties

Strategic Development: Design and develop technical and business initiatives and strategies in order to support the infrastructure department and IS goals.
Business Analysis: Develop an understanding of the Auto Club Group (ACG) business strategy and competitive environment.
Technology Alignment: Ensure technology solutions align with business requirements.
Management Advisory: Provide recommendations to senior management regarding new technology, design, and system enhancements.
Security Support: Provide support to Security in the development of appropriate audit controls and procedures.
Project Management: Develop work plans and estimates for complex projects and ensure that project teams remain on schedule and within budget.
Risk Monitoring: Monitor risks to ensure the integrity of each release throughout the implementation cycle.
Vendor Management: Develop and maintain vendor relationships.

11. IT Architect Accountabilities

Architecture Review: Participate in architecture reviews and/or audits of ISO security solutions.
Documentation Management: Define and maintain documentation of reference architecture and technology standards, processes, and policies related to core solutions.
Infrastructure Integration: Effectively integrate solutions into the existing infrastructure.
Technical Leadership: Provide leadership and direction for technical infrastructure support, on-call support, and support for escalated trouble tickets.
Issue Resolution: Lead the resolution of key implementation and system integration issues.
Target Architecture: Define and document target architectures, anticipating growth and scalability.
Process Improvement: Use KPIs and effectiveness metrics to improve processes and bridge different areas of the infrastructure.
Team Collaboration: Work closely with the infrastructure and engineering teams to understand the broad IT solution needs.
Technology Assessment: Assess emerging technologies relevant to global, regional, and local business needs.
Vendor Relations: Establish and vet key vendor relationships, providing advice on investments regarding price versus performance.

12. IT Architect Job Summary

Disaster Recovery: Ensure solution architecture is designed to meet disaster recovery and business continuity requirements.
Resource Planning: Anticipate skill and resource needs and effectively build plans to balance these across multiple teams.
Innovative Design: Develop innovative approaches and solutions to complex design problems while meeting aggressive deadlines with attention to detail.
Business Analysis: Listen to and evaluate business needs to determine and provide high-quality solutions that align with business expectations.
Process Improvement: Identify opportunities for improvement and ensure others are aligned with business expectations.
Cost Management: Commit to cost controls and effective measures to reduce costs.
Business Value: Help establish a business case and articulate business value through storytelling and alignment with the broader IT vision.
Security Integration: Protect customers, employees, and brands by incorporating security and compliance in all decisions and daily job responsibilities.
Security Compliance: Follow security policies and procedures, continuously identifying and recommending opportunities for improving security.

13. IT Architect Role Purpose

Business Partnership: Partner with business leaders to ensure that solutions are sustainable and assist with the organizational change management process.
Stakeholder Advisory: Serve as a valued advisor to stakeholders by anticipating needs and developing solutions that are aligned with business strategies.
Technology Application: Leverage technology principles, knowledge, and practices.
Policy Development: Develop and communicate policies, standards, guidelines, and procedures.
Technology Research: Conduct research to stay current with new and emerging technologies that may apply to the business environment.
Technology Recommendation: Recommend appropriate technology to the IT organization to meet business needs while seeking to maximize reuse of existing technologies.
Process Integration: Provide advice and guidance to stakeholders about how technology can integrate and support business processes.
Solution Implementation: Utilize deep technology understanding to ensure solutions are implemented effectively and efficiently.

14. IT Architect Roles and Details

Software Evaluation: Recommend, evaluate and implement software, and evaluate software performance to ensure smooth operations.
IT Architecture: Drive advancements within the IT Architecture area, including, but not limited to, application integration, IT project solution reviews, application consolidation and IT Architecture optimizations.
Risk Management: Understand and apply risk management practices.
Solution Development: Ensure recommended solutions used are robust and sustainable.
Stakeholder Engagement: Build relationships and influence key stakeholders.
Relationship Building: Build trusting, collaborative relationships with internal and external stakeholders, which help accomplish key business objectives.
Communication Skills: Develop and communicate strong, fact-based rationales.
Initiative Leadership: Build support for one's perspectives and initiatives.

15. IT Architect Duties and Roles

Technology Foresight: Keep an eye toward the future and understand new technologies on the horizon, and depict their impact on the organization in a digestible format to key stakeholders within the IT division and beyond.
Initiative Leadership: Develop and lead key initiatives with regard to business and technical requirements, and interface with leadership within the IT division and external to it.
Business Agility: Rapidly adapt to changing business conditions.
System Strategy: Provide recommendations and go-forward strategies with regard to the disposition of existing systems and their maintenance cycles.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Understand that these contributions may require one to step well outside of their particular vertical (development/infrastructure/process design).
Product Excellence: Provide the best possible product to the team and the organization.
Technology Deployment: Execute on a framework established to control the deployment of new IT technologies into the enterprise, reducing overall risk and ensuring supportability for the future.
Process Improvement: Look across the organization and lead efforts to remove inefficiencies and introduce process improvements.
Sustainability Focus: Seek to move the organization toward a more scalable, supportable, and sustainable atmosphere overall.
Solution Integration: Transform business requirements into technical solutions, integrating all platforms to provide an end-to-end solution.
COTS Implementation: Participate in the COTS evaluation and implementation.

16. IT Architect Details and Accountabilities

Architectural Design: Explore architectural concepts, derive and communicate guidelines to development teams.
Code Quality: Review and test the quality of the delivered code.
UAT Management: Responsible for their own parts of the User Acceptance Tests process.
Product Innovation: Explore and define technology-oriented product features.
Incident Management: Manage and solve incidents with technical and business partners.
Audit Framework: Refine the audit framework and own non-standard controls.
Technical Support: Provide and support the sales channel with technical know-how.
DLT Assessment: Assess and validate new or forked DLTs or digital assets to be supported by Custodigit.

17. IT Architect Additional Details

System Architecture: Architecture and design of information systems.
System Review: Review of the architecture of existing systems.
Component Design: Design and development of component architecture and building blocks.
Web Development: Design and development of web-based applications based on the MVC design pattern.
System Integration: Analyze and integrate different information systems.
Data Modeling: Data analysis and data modeling.
Documentation: Produce software architecture documents.
Technical Collaboration: Participate in technical working groups, progress meetings and meetings with the users.
Testing Support: Assist in the testing, the technical documentation, the deployment, the evaluation and the reporting.

18. IT Architect General Responsibilities

Business Analysis: Ensure User Stories reflect business requirements.
Solution Quality: Responsible for the quality of the IT solutions delivered by Falck Global IT.
Solution Design: Ensure high-quality design for solutions.
Architecture Compliance: Verify that the implementation meets the agreed-upon architecture.
Stakeholder Management: Challenge business stakeholders on business requirements and processes.
Continuous Improvement: Responsible for input for continuous improvement.
Architectural Collaboration: Liaise with other Architects across teams to ensure consistency across solutions and optimization.
Governance Adherence: Ensure adherence to IT Architecture principles, standards, methods and tools.

19. IT Architect Roles and Details

Hardware Management: Specify, configure, deploy, troubleshoot, and maintain hardware as related to specific IT areas of expertise (i.e., servers, firewalls, routers, wireless APs, switches, appliances, etc.).
Technical Documentation: Responsible for documenting clear instruction sets and/or maintenance guides for distribution both among other teams within the IT department, as well as to the general staff related to workflows and/or specific use of IT technology.
Continuous Learning: Continue with education related to IT in order to acquire and maintain expertise in all related IT fields.
Infrastructure Maintenance: Work with other members of the IT Infrastructure team to maintain the operational status of all IT infrastructure.
Project Leadership: Contribute and/or lead IT projects related to specific areas of technology.
Technical Reporting: Provide regular reports on technical areas of responsibility to IT Management.
Vendor Management: Manage 3rd party relations with vendors, consultants, or support groups for support and/or deployment and implementation of new technology.
IT Communication: Communicate clearly and concisely with IT management and/or executive leadership the status, recommendations, specifications, and/or needs related to specific areas of IT Infrastructure expertise.

20. IT Architect Roles

IT Architecture: Participate in the creation and maintenance of the IT architecture of the company.
Business Requirements: Ensure that business needs are understood, challenged, and formalized correctly in business requirements.
Conceptual Design: Elaborate on high-level conceptual architecture adapted to requirements during the project initiation phase.
System Integration: Define the way in which the various departments of Luxair are integrated.
Solution Planning: Plan and design the structure of technology solutions.
Strategic Alignment: Provide support to align IT architecture with the company’s business goals.
Technical Leadership: Provide technical leadership and support for software development teams.
Architecture Implementation: Ensure the implementation of the agreed architecture and infrastructure.
Governance Framework: Propose and organize an Architecture board to review and maintain the overall architecture.
Technology Innovation: Develop and prepare emerging technologies and their possible match with business needs.
Stakeholder Engagement: Gain organizational commitment to the target architectures by developing effective relationships with stakeholders.

21. IT Architect General Responsibilities

Architectural Documentation: Create and maintain architectural documentation as prescribed by COMET, SAD, and IPAC for ETS.
Enterprise Architecture: Design architectural solutions that support the enterprise and strategic perspectives aligned with EA strategies.
Complexity Management: Manage the technical complexity of the Service Area, resulting in simplification of the local environment.
Requirements Analysis: Confer with business stakeholders and other technical team members to gather and analyze requirements.
Standards Enforcement: Enforce the standards and technologies to enable systems usability, reliability, performance, and supportability.
Solution Optimization: Select and guide the implementation of optimal technical solutions considering functional/non-functional requirements, cost, and risk.
Stakeholder Negotiation: Negotiate business and IT trade-offs with stakeholders.
Service Support: Support the assigned Service Area through area-specific product and tool knowledge, production support triage, and 3rd-tier production support.
Framework Knowledge: Understand and articulate the five interrelated facets of the ACORD Framework, including the Business Dictionary, Capability Model, Information Model, Data Model, and Component Model.
Multi-Platform Development: Work with two or more languages or platforms, transition to .NET, and seamlessly move to Java in 2015 to ECS.
Strategic Visioning: Create and implement strategic and tactical visions within assigned service areas, and conduct research on emerging technologies.
Resource Planning: Assist and identify technical resource needs for project initiatives.
Technical Recruitment: Participate in technical interviews.
Vision Communication: Communicate strategic and tactical visions that are understandable and actionable to diverse audiences.
Change Leadership: Act as a change agent for the assigned service area through dialogue rather than direct authority.

22. IT Architect Functions

Domain Architecture: Analyze, design, and develop domain roadmaps that align with goals, business plans, and business processes.
Process Improvement: Identify and implement ongoing opportunities for system and process improvements.
Project Planning: Plan project activities for a development or engineering team to meet the enterprise schedule.
Technical Oversight: Create project design documentation and provide technical oversight to ensure successful delivery.
Standards Compliance: Maintain domain standards complying with enterprise standards, ensuring solutions are optimally designed, secure, well-performing, and integrated with other solutions.
Technology Evaluation: Evaluate emerging technology for use in the domain.
Technical Documentation: Document the domain technology used to perform business processes.
Architecture Analysis: Identify, analyze, and communicate architecture and integration options and make recommendations to management.
Project Control: Control the project from start to finish to ensure high-quality, innovative, and functional design.
Team Mentorship: Provide general technical oversight and mentoring of team members.

23. IT Architect Roles

Software Development: Lead or consult on the analysis, design, programming, debugging, and modification of software enhancements and/or new products used in local, networked, or Internet-related computer programs.
Requirements Analysis: Interact with users to define system requirements and/or necessary modifications.
Technical Leadership: Provide technical leadership and coordinate the activities of lower-level staff.
Programming Expertise: Use current programming languages and technologies, write code, complete programming, and perform testing and debugging of applications.
Process Management: Responsible for process and/or people management.
Application Security: Lead the application security area in architecture management and formulate application security design standards.
Technology Standardization: Formulate the standardization of design and adoption of technology in the application security area.
Testing Framework: Develop the mainframe construction of the test process, including selection, evaluation, introduction, and maintenance of new solutions, and formulation of tool standards.
Infrastructure Architecture: Lead the infrastructure area in architecture management, defining system infrastructure (OS/MW) structure, domain design, and standardization of recruitment technology.

24. IT Architect General Responsibilities

System Development: Develop specific systems on a range of platforms, including Linux, Microsoft, and various mobile environments (iOS, Android, Hybrid).
Software Engineering: Work within the entire development life-cycle, including design, build, and coding.
Object-Oriented Programming: Use object-oriented programming languages and tools to deliver a range of solutions.
Requirement Analysis: Participate in the analysis of system and business requirements to provide hands-on solutions to meet or exceed customers’ expectations.
Cross-Team Communication: Communicate with the Product Management and development teams to raise issues and identify potential barriers in a timely fashion.
Digital Transformation: Shape the digital transformation of globally leading companies, ensuring their success by evaluating clients' digital capabilities and performing feasibility studies.
Team Management: Manage small, agile development teams in strategic IT implementation programs, establishing modern practices like DevOps and CI/CD.
Cybersecurity Implementation: Responsible for the technical implementation of crucial digital requirements, such as cyber resilience.
IT Architecture Optimization: Analyze, develop, and optimize cutting-edge, customized IT architectures while applying a comprehensive understanding of legacy IT, enterprise solutions, and current market developments and trends such as cloud computing and microservices.

25. IT Architect Responsibilities and Key Tasks

Software Design: Design software aligned to business and IT requirements, transferring business problems into technical solutions.
Requirements Coordination: Work with other technical disciplines to harmonize requirements, ensuring the end solution is fit for purpose.
Implementation Guidance: Guide implementation teams to successful delivery.
Infrastructure Integration: Make sure technical solutions are integrated into heterogeneous and highly automated infrastructure.
Architectural Collaboration: Collaborate on project assessments, architecture blueprints, and API definitions.
Stakeholder Partnership: Partner with project managers, delivery teams, and business stakeholders to enable and drive the deployment of client order management capabilities.
Innovation Development: Work directly with thought leaders to develop new and innovative solutions.
Banking Architecture Leadership: Lead banking architectures from pre-sales to delivery with an end-to-end responsibility.
Technology Leadership: Lead technology teams to implement architectures and solutions.

26. IT Architect Roles and Responsibilities

Stakeholder Collaboration: Collaborate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders to provide global, robust, secure and scalable solutions.
Solution Architecture: Provide solution architecture and application design guidance to multiple teams in an agile manner.
Architecture Communication: Communicate architecture decisions through key architecture documents.
Development Guidance: Guide teams along the way in best practices in development, testing and dev-ops.
Quality Assurance: Ensure overall quality and security of architecture solutions throughout the development process.
Cross-functional Leadership: Share solution architecture with cross-functional teams and executive leadership.
IT Strategy: Define sustainable IT strategies, in line with strategic agendas and key business objectives of companies from across the globe and a variety of industries.
Cloud Migration: Support Clients on their journey to the cloud, from the definition of target architecture, through an on-premise infrastructure migration plan, to execution and ensuring operational excellence.
Process Optimization: Assess applications, infrastructures, and delivery processes, identifying areas for improvement and optimization using state-of-the-art solutions.

27. IT Architect Details

Technical Solutions: Play a critical role in exploring and implementing technical solutions, helping to shape and enhance various SanusX healthcare offerings from early stages on.
System Architecture: Develop distributed system architecture and system integration.
Network Infrastructure: Build and maintain a secure and reliable IT network infrastructure.
Team Collaboration: Be part of a diversified team helping to shape the future of the health industry.
Entrepreneurial Mindset: Operate in an entrepreneurial environment within the corporate setting, "Intrapreneurship".
Architectural Standards: Establish and follow architectural standards.
Solution Design: Contribute to projects as an Architect, such as developing designs and making architectural decisions.
IT Architecture: Define IT architecture from different perspectives.
Design Development: Define contextual and logical designs.
IT Environment Analysis: Understand complex environments, how IT environments work and advise on improvements.
IT Resource Management: Advise colleagues and management on the use of IT resources.

28. IT Architect Functions

Disaster Recovery Expertise: Lead, direct, and produce technical architectures with expertise in disaster recovery, data integrity, service continuity, component redundancy, and security.
Stakeholder Communication: Lead and participate in high-level technology discussions with management and stakeholders.
Application Design Leadership: Lead software developers in application design and patterns.
Business Technology Solutions: Produce technology solutions that support the business in meeting its objectives.
Architectural Standards Compliance: Ensure all features and solutions are designed and implemented based on architectural standards and practices.
Solution Development: Develop, test, and implement solutions.
Technology Research: Research new technologies and best practices.
Strategic IT Contribution: Contribute to IT and business strategies, ensuring that all projects requiring IT solutions have robust technology and support plans in place.
IT Solution Design: Design IT solutions that are technically fit for purpose, supportable, and provide value for money at a project or squad level.
Architectural Leadership: Serve as the architectural lead on projects, providing technical guidance and oversight to project teams and squads comprising technical subject matter experts, technical/solutions architects, and third-party specialists.
Technology Evaluation: Identify, trial, and evaluate evolving technologies, ensuring new technology choices are based on business strategy and requirements, balancing risk management with speed and flexibility of delivery.

29. IT Architect Overview

Requirements Translation: Accountable for the translation of requirements into a solution vision and high-level functional specifications with a clear portfolio of implementation tasks.
Requirements Interpretation: Interpret functional and non-functional requirements, data flows, and enterprise architectural guidelines.
Business Solution Design: Create business-specific solutions that are maintainable, supportable, fit for purpose, cost-effective, and future-proof.
Business Support: Help identify areas of benefit and provide support in delivering business outcomes.
Solution Ownership: Accountable for the solution ownership within the respective business function.
Enterprise Architecture Alignment: Combine guidance from different enterprise architecture viewpoints (business, information, and technical).
Technical Communication: Bridge the gap between the technical and business teams, expertly defining, validating, and promoting quality solutions for an opportunity or project.
Project Analysis: Analyze and engage in complex IT projects, facilitating architectural decisions and blueprints.
Architectural Roadmapping: Participate in defining guidelines and architectural roadmaps.

30. IT Architect Roles and Responsibilities

Platform Architecture: Create, implement, and communicate the platform and infrastructure architecture of large systems.
Project Management: Perform technical project management.
Cloud Strategy: Develop and execute a hybrid cloud strategy.
Enterprise Architecture: Ensure a broad focus on enterprise architecture to create an overall consolidation of hosted services and platforms.
GitOps Transition: Guide the transition of the hosting team from server-based operation to GitOps.
Design Assessment: Responsible for preliminary assessments of designs presented for review in light of existing guidance and policies, as well as readiness for review.
Implementation Oversight: Provide regular oversight of the implementation of systems to follow the agreed direction (control).
Delivery Collaboration: Represent the DA role in regular ongoing meetings with delivery teams.
Documentation Management: Help document and maintain a log of DA decisions on a company intranet site.
Architectural Guidance: Help formulate guidance in cooperation with the architectural community (from a solution architect's angle).

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