What abilities should a system architect have?

The system architect is a technician, who finally confirms and evaluates the system requirements, gives the development specifications, constructs the core framework of system implementation, clarifies the technical details and clears the main difficulties. Mainly concerned with the "technical realization" of the system. Therefore, he/she should be proficient in specific development platforms, languages and tools, and be able to give the most appropriate solutions for common application scenarios immediately. At the same time, he/she should know enough about his/her development team and be able to evaluate the cost of his/her team to achieve specific functional requirements. The system architect is responsible for designing the overall architecture of the system, considering every detail from requirements to design, grasping the whole project, and making the designed project as efficient as possible, easy to develop, convenient to maintain and simple to upgrade.

The comprehensive knowledge and ability of system architect includes nine aspects, namely:

1, strategic planning ability.

2. Business process modeling ability.

3. Ability of information data structure.

4, technical architecture selection and implementation ability.

5. Ability to solve and realize application system architecture.

6. Basic IT knowledge, infrastructure and resource allocation ability.

7, information security technical support and management support capabilities.

8.IT audit, governance and basic needs analysis, and capacity acquisition.

9. Software system reliability and quality assurance service ability of system life cycle.