In this article, we look at some of the important responsibilities that an architect is expected to handle. Although we chiefly focus on application architects, most of these also hold true for enterprise architects as well.
Five Responsibilities Of Architects that we look at are
- Clean And Simple Architecture
- Clear Standards
- Proper Governance
- Best Engineering Practices
- Awesome Technical Processes
This is the fourth article in the following series of articles on Software Architecture :
- 1 - Quick Introduction To Software Architecture
- 2 - What Is The Goal Of a Software Architect?
- 3 - 5 Qualities of a Great Software Architect
- 4 - 5 Important Responsibilities of a Software Architect
- 5 - Software Architecture - Why do we use Layered Architectures?
Clean And Simple Architecture
Any application that you work on needs to have a very clean and simple architecture. There must be great clarity in the organization on application layers, the use of specific frameworks at each layer, and patterns in communication with external applications.
Clear Standards
There needs to be clarity on the sets of standards followed in design, development, deployment and operations.
Governance
Architects needs to ensure proper governance around the various standards, and on the creation of common components. In any enterprise application, it always adds great value to have common components that are frequently reused across different applications and application layers.
Best Engineering Practices
It is very important to adhere to engineering best practices over the lifetime of an application. Interesting examples are Test Driven Development, Behavior Driven Development, DevOps. Such practices also involve use of consistent build and deployment tools and processes.
The question you need to ask yourself frequently is - Are you are making the best possible use of these practices, to achieve business goals?
Awesome Technical Processes
You need to make sure that you have great processes in place for the following:
- Development
- Deployment
- Continuous Integration
- Immediate Defect Feedback
You need to have complete control over such issues.
Do check out our video on this:
Summary
In this article, we looked at the some of the important responsibilities of a software architect.
Five Responsibilities Of Architects that we looked at are
- Clean And Simple Architecture
- Clear Standards
- Proper Governance
- Best Engineering Practices
- Awesome Technical Processes
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