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Enterprise Architect
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
—Albert Einstein [1]
Definition: The Enterprise Architect is responsible for establishing the portfolio’s technology vision, strategy, and roadmap.
Enterprise Architects (EAs) provide the vision, evolution, and communication of an enterprise’s technical architecture, creating the strategy and portfolio-level technical roadmaps for new and innovative technologies. This often includes incorporating Cloud, Big Data, and AI technologies to create strategic advantage.
EAs collaborate with System Architects and Solution Architects to guide the technical design of Solutions developed by Agile Release Trains (ARTs) and Solution Trains. They lead Enabler Epics through the Portfolio Kanban, which builds the more significant architecture for the portfolio’s solutions. Relying on continuous feedback, EAs foster adaptive design and engineering practices and drive ARTs and teams to unite around a shared technical vision.
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EAs guide the portfolio’s value streams as they build new elements of an organization’s enterprise architecture. For example, its data and information, applications, technologies, and finding ways to use these architectural elements to meet the company’s organizational standards and improve its overall performance.
Good strategic technical planning, communication, and visibility can result in optimal system performance, significantly improving Business Agility. EAs provide some Architectural Runway and governance, supporting current and future needs, such as usability and behavioral constructs across the enterprise’s solutions. System and Solution Architects offer this guidance for Agile Release Trains (ARTs) and Solution Trains.