Digital Architects: Critical Skills and Focused Areas

By Gaurav Agarwaal

Published May 24, 2021

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Welcome to the second part of the series on “Upskilling to Digital Architect”. The Digital Revolution continues to transform our world. According to IDC, our digital world is now “doubling in size every two years, and by 2020 the digital universe – the data we create and copy annually – will reach 44 zettabytes or 44 trillion gigabytes”. Digital Architecture provides business services to customers, business partners, and employees. Digital Architects require critical skills as they are responsible for identifying and creating a mesh of data and managing it. They focus on building intelligent machines, business outcome-driven models, process views, etc. First things first, &nbsp; Critical Skills Required by Digital Architect In this era, organizations are finding solutions to use the wealth of digital data from their workers, processes, devices, and customer input to generate greater business value. To fulfill the requirements of such organizations, Digital architects must have the following skills: Thirty Thousand Feet View Perspective on Decision Making &nbsp; Skills Matrix &nbsp; How the roles of Digital Architect are different from Solution Architect and Enterprise Architect Perspective across 4 architecture domains Perspective on Scope &nbsp; Let me know your views. In the next part, I will go deeper on specific skillset and some of the Emerging Technology &amp; Frameworks that Digital Architect needs to learn.

Welcome to the second part of the series on “Upskilling to Digital Architect”.

The Digital Revolution continues to transform our world. According to IDC, our digital world is now “doubling in size every two years, and by 2020 the digital universe – the data we create and copy annually – will reach 44 zettabytes or 44 trillion gigabytes”.

Digital Architecture provides business services to customers, business partners, and employees. Digital Architects require critical skills as they are responsible for identifying and creating a mesh of data and managing it. They focus on building intelligent machines, business outcome-driven models, process views, etc.

First things first,

Critical Skills Required by Digital Architect

In this era, organizations are finding solutions to use the wealth of digital data from their workers, processes, devices, and customer input to generate greater business value. To fulfill the requirements of such organizations, Digital architects must have the following skills: