System architect: training, job description and feedback

The system architect is called the software architect in another way. The main responsibility is to design the software architecture. The employee makes key decisions regarding the system and the technical interface.

Designing an architecture is a special case of software design.

What does

The system architect is a new position that appeared in Russia not long before 2008. To become a professional architect and design not at home, but as an IT system, you need to understand what such an employee is doing.

The duties of the system architect are to form the final form of the information system of the entire organization in details and in the overall result. The key goal is to ensure the solution of business problems through solutions in information technology. At the same time, the formation of a solution is not the final stage, the implementation control is also carried out by the architect.

Job tasks

The responsibilities that the system architect performs are diverse and multifaceted.

The architect implements:

• Analysis of the project and its environment;
• Analysis of databases, as well as information systems, processes and data;
• Analysis of what is necessary for the customer;
• Expert evaluation of the architecture and configuration of systems, as well as databases;
• Choice of approaches, forms requirements, specifications, selects standards;
• Collection and analysis of requirements for components;
• Assessment of the feasibility of the project;
• Identification of resource requirements for the implementation and implementation of the project.

The responsibility is also the very development of the project.

Among the mandatory items:

• Design of databases, information systems, software.
• Development of TOR, projects, justifications from the economic point of view.
• Development of concepts and strategies, as well as implementation programs.
• The development of the software architecture, the algorithm according to which it will work, the technology and the way information is processed.
• Development of a methodology for adapting the system to the structure that exists in the organization.
• Coordination of the project on interaction between performers (groups of analysts, the customer, technical support, information security).
• Supervision, as well as management of the project implementation process.
• Implementation of the control process on the implementation of the developed solutions, new systems, as well as applications.
• Providing advice to project users.
• Preparation and maintenance of reporting on architecture.
• Control of compliance with architectural solutions.
• Control compliance of the development solution.
• Coordination of planning.
• Development of systems architecture.
• Analysis of the quality of installed software and its compliance with the necessary requirements.

Documentation

The system architect, like any other employee of a large company, is working with a variety of documentation. He needs to develop and then monitor the design and coordinate the necessary design, operational, and operational documents. Also, the system architect develops project and technical documentation for the software, prepares reports, completion certificates and other documents accompanying the project.

Reported according to the established deadlines, which are agreed in advance, at the stage of project launch.

A responsibility

What duties can and can not be performed? Such a question does not arise, since the job description prescribes not only the rights and job responsibilities, but also the responsibility that the employee will bear.

This category of employees is responsible for:

• Failure to perform or improper performance of their duties;
• Infliction of material damage to the company by actions or inactions;
• Disclosure of the company's trade secret;
• Disclosure of any other confidential information;
• Violation of the rules of the labor regulations, fire safety rules, norms of life.

For any violation, the responsibility is assigned exactly to the extent that is assumed by the current rules and regulations of the company, the concluded contract, as well as the current legislation of the Russian Federation.

Where necessary

This employee is not needed by every company. His skills will be useful where there is already a branched network that needs to be adjusted and structured. In small companies, where the network is not so large, its functions can be performed by an advanced programmer, project manager or other IT specialist.

Training

How to become a system architect? For this, experience in programming is required. In practice, the architect is the next stage of development for the lead / chief engineer who does not want to part with the practical part of his work.

What duties a system architect will perform depends on the previous experience.

System architect training takes place not only at the university. Professional development is an ongoing process, without which the skills necessary for the successful performance of functional duties will not be developed.

Having received a degree in IT in any higher educational institution, architects attend a course of programming, development, implementation of new solutions in systems and modeling of the systems themselves.

Wage

This position is quite rare even among specialists in the narrow sphere of Internet technologies. Proceeding from this, the payment starts from 70 000 r. In the regions, and large cities such as Yekaterinburg, St. Petersburg, Moscow, starts from 130,000 r.

The job description of the system architect is related to the performance of works that directly affect the company's efficiency, as well as the growth of its profit. That the employee did not bring losses and qualitatively cope with the tasks, he is presented with a number of requirements:

• Education should be only the highest (IT or technical direction).
• Knowledge of modern methodologies, programs, software architecture - is mandatory.
• A broad outlook and a well-read in the field of technology, as well as the ability to apply individual elements to your system is a necessary skill.
• English - at least Intermediate level, which allows you to read the documentation and instructions for the equipment in the original language.
• Work experience in the specialty - from three years.

It should be noted that even for a specialist without work experience, wages in Moscow are from 80,000 rubles.

Employee Description

Numerous studies conducted by various career portals, found that:

• 30 - 40 years - the average age of an employee as an architect. Such employees - almost half, 46%.
• Higher education has 92%, and 75% of all employees in this position have managerial experience and received additional training.
• English language at the level of reading documents and instructions is known to 52%, and fluently speaks fluently - more than 35%.