| The Architect’s Skill Profile |
| Personal Skills and Traits |
| Open-minded: Open to new ideas and new approaches. |
| Decision-maker: Willing to take calculated risks |
| Outgoing: Comfortable working in a group. |
| Thoughtful: Enjoys researching and evaluating available options. |
| Enthusiastic: Likes getting the job done quickly. |
| Data Architecture |
| Understands the current business processes and the information used by those processes. |
| Able to model data flows for the current business processes. |
| Familiar with the current data classes, data repositories, data access paths and entity relationships at the enterprise level. |
| Application Architecture |
| Able to map the current business processes to current applications. |
| Understands the code structure of the current applications. (i.e., Is the presentation layer easily isolated? How is the data stored and accessed?) |
| Has application integration experience. |
| Is a hands-on user of the current application development environment. |
| Technology Architecture |
| Has excellent understanding of the current host environment. |
| Has familiarity with the network communications infrastructure and the system and network management facilities. |
| Is knowledgeable of local area networks, file servers, print servers and workstations including design, integration, andinstallation. |