Career Path

How to become a Enterprise Architect

An Enterprise Architect aligns long-term business strategy with technology capabilities, standards, investment choices and organisational change.

What the Role Involves

What does a Enterprise Architect do?

The role looks across portfolios and business areas to shape target states, roadmaps, governance and reusable architecture principles.

Core skills to build

  • Business and technology strategy
  • Capability modelling
  • Roadmaps and target states
  • Governance
  • Executive communication
Your Route In

Steps to become a Enterprise Architect

Use this sequence as a practical starting point and adapt it to your experience.

  1. 1. Build broad experience across delivery, platforms and business domains.
  2. 2. Learn capability mapping, operating models, governance and portfolio planning.
  3. 3. Practise connecting technology decisions to business outcomes and risk.
  4. 4. Contribute to standards, roadmaps and cross-program architecture.
  5. 5. Progress through solution, domain or platform architecture into enterprise architecture.
Next Step

Turn learning into evidence

Employers need more than a list of courses. Build a small portfolio, explain your decisions and show how your work solves a realistic problem.

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