Enterprise Architecture: Roles & Responsibilities

Yogish Pai

A structured blog by Yogish Pai

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Enterprise ArchitectureMission Statement

“Develop IT strategy and provide technology vision aligned to changing business priorities through thought leadership, process, structure and value delivery.”

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“Develop IT strategy and provide technology vision aligned to changing business priorities through thought leadership, process, structure and value delivery.”

Mission Statement

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Architecture ResponsibilitiesResponsibilities Description

Technology Vision and Strategy

• Define the future state of the

enterprise’s business processes,

organization, information, technology,

and applications to achieve business

vision and satisfy strategic

requirements

• Identify the gaps between the current

and future state (e.g., business

processes, organization, information,

technology, applications), and develop

recommendations

• Assess alternatives and identify the

best recommendations based on a

holistic view of the

costs/benefits/dependencies associated

with all potential alternatives

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Architecture ResponsibilitiesResponsibilities Description

Technology Life Cycle Management

• Identify Emerging Technology

• Define standards that state which

technologies are used for what purpose

and introducing and retiring

technologies

Technology Procurement• Sometimes responsible for obtaining

emerging software and managing

vendor relationship

Methodologies

• Specify how business and technical

systems are to be designed and how

designs are to be documented (e.g.,

using UML)

Life Cycle & Process Standards

• Define life cycles (e.g., recommended

rapid applications development

methods) and processes for common

tasks (such as project management,

reuse, metrics and testing)

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Architecture ResponsibilitiesResponsibilities Description

Skills Planning

• Although skills planning is not often a

core architecture function, an

architect’s perspective on the future of

technologies and processes can be

valuable in identifying training and

recruiting needs.

Data Architecture• Develop Enterprise Data, Master Data

Management, Data Warehouse, Data

Mart, Shared Data Services strategy

Interface and Modularization

• A key architectural task is "city

planning" — defining the partitioning,

interfaces and relationships between

major elements of the IT infrastructure