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Architect Roles

We’re going to keep this section brief. The book’s focus is on the role of Solution Architecture. There is an ever expanding list of job titles with Architect in the title. Awareness of the common roles is useful.

  • Network/Infrastructure Architect - Routers, firewalls, network traffic routing/
  • Enterprise Architect - At the time of writing roles for Solution Architect in the UK outweigh Enterprise Architect roles by a factor of six.
  • Information/Data Architect
  • Security Architect
  • Cloud Architect
  • Technical Architect - A broad term which often involves hands on experience with setup and configuration of environments for Kubernetes, devops elements, autonomous testing, cloud infrastructure etc.
  • Business Architect - xx
  • And many others!

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