Architect

Skill & Competence:
-Understanding the business & functional Requirements and technical documentation
-Raising questions / ambiguities related to requirements
-Escalating issues / risks to next level
-Maintaining good relations with project team and peers
-Using and sharing best practices across technical team
-Knowledge of Agile and Scrum methodology in particular is a plus.
-Good understanding of project management tools (Knowledge of TFS, MSTM is plus)
Roles & Responsibilities:
-Choosing a standard way of pursuing application development
-Creating, defining, or choosing an application framework and architecture for the application
-Make sure everyone is using it, and using it correctly
-Observing and understanding the broader system environment
-Having knowledge of other applications in the organization
-Make sure the software and system architectures are in synchronization
-Subdivide a complex application, during the design phase, into smaller, more manageable pieces
-Grasp the functions of each component within the application
-Understand the interactions and dependencies among components
-Make sure the right modeling is being done, to know that qualities like performance are going to be met
-Give input as needed to issues like tool and environment selection
-Identify and interact with stakeholders to make sure their needs are being met
-Make sure that the architecture is not only the right one for operations, but also for deployment and sustainment
-Resolve technical problems
-Maintain morale, both within the architecture group, and externally as well. The latter is done by providing a sound design, when needed, and providing good presentations and materials to let everyone know the organization is on the right track
-Understand and plan for evolutionary paths
-Plan for new technology insertion
-Manage risk identification and risk mitigation strategies associated with the architecture