Software architect explained

A software architect is a software engineer responsible for high-level design choices related to overall system structure and behavior.^[1]

It's software architect's responsibility to match architectural characteristics (aka non-functional requirements) with business requirements. For example: ^[2]

• Having a high customer satisfactions requires availability, fault tolerance, security, testability, recoverability, agility and performance in the system.
• Doing mergers and acquisitions (M&A) requires extensibility, scalability, adaptability, and interoperability
• Constrained budget and time requires feasibility and simplicity
• Faster time-to-market requires maintainability, testability and deplorability.

See also

• Software architecture
• Software engineering

External links

• International Association of Software Architects (IASA)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Software Architecture . Software Engineering Institute . Carnegie Mellon University . 29 June 2022.
2. Book: Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach . O'Reilly Media . 2020 . 978-1492043454.