
Explore the application architect role responsibilities, designing high-level architecture from functional and non-functional requirements, detailing constraints and assumptions, mapping component interactions, and communicating with stakeholders.
Apply professional concept to both business and technology contexts; an application architect bridges business and technology, understands lines of business, communicates the business value, and builds trust with cross-functional teams.
Partner with developers to shape the application architecture through high-level design, coordinate work, and document major decisions guiding implementation with proven design patterns.
Prepare to become an application architect by expanding architectural depth through hands-on projects across languages and business domains, while mastering the software development lifecycle, environments, deployment, minimal architecture, and patterns.
Explore architectural breadth by using multiple modeling languages and diagrams to document systems, correlating design with code across infrastructure, data, and business domains to become an application architect.
Prepare for the transition to the application architect position by understanding the other domain architectures such as business, data and infrastructure/ technology architecture and how they interact with the application architecture.
Choose an out of role assignment to become an application architect by shadowing the architect and proving your capabilities while keeping current duties, with preparation and soft skills.
Explains how to pursue a new application architect job through preparation, shadowing a current architect, and using courses to bridge gaps, with manager support and coaching.
Explore architecture certifications that demonstrate your ability to model different scenarios and boost your prospects for an application architect role.
The “How to become an Application Architect” course will review of the Application Architect definition role definition and provide a complete understanding of the different ways to pursue a career in IT architecture, what are the various types of IT roles under the general umbrella of IT architecture as well what differentiates them, what is the T-shape personality and how this should be changed to become an IT Architect, what are the most important skills to work on to become successful as an Application Architect, what the main changes in the job responsibilities when you switch from a Developer to the Application Architect role as well as what are the ways to transition to an Application Architect.
The prerequisite for this course is to understand the IT industry and the various IT practitioner roles such as: Developer, Systems Analyst, Quality Assurance Analyst, etc. It is advisable to have worked in the IT industry as a developer /programmer.
I would also recommend the following courses from the “How to become an IT architect” program:
“Introduction to the IT Architect role” course to get a better understanding of the various IT Architect role “
“Architecture design, modelling and technical skills for IT Architects” course to know what are the general and technical skills and competencies required to become a successful IT Architect
"Soft skills and competencies for IT Architects and IT practitioners to understand what are the soft skills such as leadership, communication, presentation, facilitation, etc. required to become an Application Architect.
"Documents produced by IT Architects to understand what are the documents that an Application Architect will need to produce, how to collect and present the information.
"IT Architecture specific knowledge (frameworks and methodologies) to understand what are the IT architecture frameworks, methodologies modeling languages, etc. used by an Application Architect to produce documentation.