Technical Architect (IT Architect)

The role of the Technical Architect

What does a Technical Architect do?

The Dragon1 definition of a Technical Architect, IT Technical Architect or IT Architect: The designer of total concepts for IT Infrastructures (Production Environments, Test Networks, etc.) and the supervisor of the realization of IT Infrastructures implementing the total concept.

So the focus of Technical Architects is to design Technical Architectures, where this equals a specific total technology concept / IT infra concept, consisting of coherent constructive, operative, and decorative IT infrastructure concepts.

If you like you can download the Technical IT Architect Job Description [PDF] for your internal job profile description. If you want to use this commercially, you need to contact the Dragon1 Foundation at info@dragon1.org.

Primary Duties

The Technical Architect mainly creates architectural designs of large and complex systems in businesses, intending to make the systems sustainable and future-proof after they have been realized. Examples of architectural designs include a chain of information facilities, an information facility, applications, information systems, data sets, information services, and interface integration.

Technical Architects are engaged in developing and updating an integrated vision of the technical architectures, part of the enterprise architectures, as the realization of the strategic information policy and positioning of the services of the information facility within the organization. Applying these technical designs for the information facility's control, research, development, use, and management.

Technical Architects focus on business processes, service orientation, component-based development, information facilities, IT infrastructure, e-business (e.g., e-procurement), and modeling.

They are experienced management consultants who are highly creative and skilled at design. Technical Architects have deep knowledge of the concepts, principles, trends, and developments in the information facilities they work with.

The Technical Architect is a generalist at a strategic level and a specialist at the tactical and operational level. The Technical Architect can turn ideas and vision into realistic designs for complete information facilities or significant parts.

Dragon1 as ArchiMate Tool

Technical Architects (IT Architects) use tools to create architectural products or deliverables. The most used tools are Pen, Paper, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio, and MS Excel.

With these tools, a Technical Architect can create business building blocks and fragments, enabling more reuse of parts of their Technical Architectures.

Dragon1 can be perfectly used by Technical Architects (IT Architects) as an ArchiMate Tool.