About the Role
IT Architects analyse, design and plan technology and business
processes and standards, in an effort to maintain scalability, reliability,
availability and manageability of an organisation and its information
systems.
There are various types of architects:
Enterprise Architects
take a very high-level view across an organisation;
Solution Architects
design specific solutions in a detailed manner;
Application Architects
are concerned with the architectural design of an application;
and various others are focused on areas such as security or data architecture.
Education Options
Generally a Bachelor or above qualification plus strong and generally lengthy experience in one or more of Systems Administration, Software Development, Networking and/or Security (preferably all)
Relevant Professional Certification
Chartered IT Professional NZ (CITPNZ) (More info at IT Professionals NZ)
Recognised Industry Certifications
Open Group Certified Architect (Open CA) and Master Architect (Open MA)
TOGAF 9 Certification
Certified IT Architect (CITA)