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Software architect roadmap

Software architect roadmap

In general software architect is like the architect in real-life. Hes's responsible for making high-level design decisions.

Objective 🚩

The objective of this document is giving an overview about the skills required by software engineers to level up and become a software architect. Still there's no ideal skills required to be gained, but this is just a roadmap to be followed to highlight the main skills to be gained.

There's no standard roadmap or specific methodology to follow to become an architect. Being a good architect is getting achieved by applying and implementing more than reading.

Below is a broadway roadmap that you can follow to start being a software architect.

Let's define the 3 categories of software architects

Solutions architect [very detailed architect]

Solution architect is mainly the one responsible for translating requirements into code. Sometimes we can call him the "project development team lead" for a specific project. He's responsible for the following:

• Guiding the development team through the implementation process in every technical details.
• Making sure that the developed solution meets the designed architecture.
• Making sure that the developed solution meets the functional requirements.
• Participate in choosing the right design patterns for solving problems.

Solution architect would be guided by the "Enterprise architect".

Application architect

Application architect is the one responsible for the following:

• Choosing the technologies that will be used to implement the application. He'll be
• Making sure that the team is meeting the standard of the technology used.
• Responsible for choosing and cooperate in developing packages/frameworks that will be used by the team.
• Reliability and scalability of the application.
• Maintaining/refining the development life cycle of the application.

Sometimes they choose one of the development team to be the application architect.

Enterprise architect [highly abstracted architect]

Enterprise architect is the very highly abstracted architect responsible for the following:

• Designing the high level organizational development process.
• Designing UML that will be used by application/solution architects.
• Should be engaged more with the business mission of the company and the IT strategy.
• Raising the skills of the development team and maintaining their knowledge.

Contribution 💪

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software-architect-roadmap's Issues

Adding Technical Architect as another category

So far you have 3 categories of software architects

• Solution Architect
• Application Architect
• Enterprise Architect

Could we include the Technical Architect? Not sure how is this position different from other categories. 😅

Software design diagrams adittion

Hi! I decided to open you an issue to recommend an addiction in "software design diagrams":

• C4 model.

It's a fresh and modern way to do UML focus on be readable for both programmers and business people (like stakeholders). UML usually are written only by and for programmers, so it's no presentable.