Architects

Behind every successful transformation is an architectural foundation that balances innovation, stability, and real-world business needs. Whether you're designing a cloud-first enterprise, leading a digital transformation, or integrating legacy and modern platforms, the right architectural leadership is critical. It is therefore manifestly important to know which blend of architects are required for the desired outcome. We will work with you to get this balance just right.

Enterprise Architects verify that the IT strategy is aligned with the organisation’s mission. It is their job to analyse business properties as well as the external environment and define all business needs. Amongst all architects, Enterprise Architects have the most overarching view of the organisation and know of its capabilities and potentials.

Business Architects illustrate the real world aspects of a business, along with how they interact and also how they intend to interact. This is developed by an interdisciplinary practice area focused on defining and analysing concerns of what business does, how it does it, how it is organised, how it realises value and how it intends to revise value in the future.

Application Architects generally operate within a scope of one application (system) with their main task being monitoring the whole system, understanding all interactions between components on a given level of abstraction, as well as to define limitations and requirements for source code.

Data Architects put order in “data chaos”. They do this by designing the blueprint for organisational data management; visualising, designing, and preparing data in a framework that can be used by Data Scientists, Data Engineers and Data Analysts.

Solution Architects evaluate business requirements and propose solutions in the form of products or services. Once they are given a problem, Solution Architects are not only in charge of finding answers, but also of actively leading the technical vision to success.

Technical Architects realise particular technical implementation processes. As this requires a high level of in-depth expertise, technical architects often specialise in one single technology. Technical Architects are not only in charge of the implementation of new technologies, they also provide recommendations and inform stakeholders about potential threats.

Security Architects are responsible for maintaining the security of a company’s IT system, and as such they will seek to anticipate strategies hackers will use to try and gain unauthorised access to this system. A good Security Architect will start by gaining, and maintaining, a thorough understanding of the company’s systems, learning who has access and where the system’s weak points are, recommending ways to improve and update the security system.