A Business Architect has not traditionally done as well in this space due to need for technical depth
Scott (customer) himself owns the Business of IT Opportunity for taking technical and business things off his plate Scott is running the Aptio implementation himself Junior EA opp, as per one of the managers
Currently his team is understaffed by 1 due to performance and that’s what has created this role.
Architect Requirements :
Hold own on technical capabilities with business partners technical leads (credibility) who are incredibly technical
Not necessarily a hands on keyboard role, but a role which must understand things like : Datacenter migration to cloud, high availability technical Networking and Cloud Infrastructure Software development pipelines Example of what someone needs from a tech perspective, If I said we were needing to talk about an app on RedHat 5.5, this person would understand why and be able to describe….
Someone who was a tech consultant / Junior EA recently / currently with desire for EA
Needs ability to facilitate, converse with senior leaders, drive discussion with technical staff in the verticals, within IT
Roadmap, horizontals, planning, software code standards patterns and practices