software architect

A software architect is a software engineer responsible for high-level design choices related to overall system structure and behavior. It's a software architect's responsibility to match architectural characteristics (aka non-functional requirements) with business requirements. For example: Having high customer satisfaction requires availability, fault tolerance, security, testability, recoverability, agility and performance in the system. Doing mergers and acquisitions (M&A) requires extensibility, scalability, adaptability, and interoperability. Constrained budget and time requires feasibility and simplicity. Faster time-to-market requires maintainability, testability and deployability.