7 Enterprise Architect Skills That Make You Valuable

The seven enterprise architect skills highlighted in this Short are technical knowledge, business acumen, executive presence and relevance, sales, leadership, communication, and stakeholder management. Together, they help architects connect technology decisions to business strategy and organizational outcomes. In this excerpt from a longer Go Cloud Architects video, Mike Gibbs explains how these capabilities work together. Technical knowledge helps you understand what is possible. Business acumen helps you recognize what matters to the organization. Executive presence helps leaders trust your contribution to the conversation. Sales skills help you gain support and funding for your architecture. Leadership helps you guide a team, communication creates clarity, and stakeholder management creates alignment. Each capability supports a different part of moving an architectural recommendation toward coordinated action. What does an enterprise architect do? The clip describes enterprise architecture as aligning business strategy, technology decisions, people, governance and execution. The purpose is to help an organization move faster, reduce risk, control costs or create competitive advantage. That requires an architect to consider how decisions affect the business as a whole. For cloud architects, solutions architects, IT managers and technology professionals preparing for enterprise architecture roles, use these seven skills to review your development. Consider how well you can explain a recommendation, build support for it and help others understand its business purpose. The skills are most useful when applied together. Subscribe to Go Cloud Architects for enterprise architect skills, business acumen and architecture career development. Which of these seven capabilities would most improve your contribution as an architect?