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There are all kinds of architects around. At the places I've worked there have been:
enterprise architects, who are probably the biggest grifters. I guess they are supposed to tell the business what tech there exists that they can leverage, but I've never seen them do anything
technical architects, who were in charge of managing the system software and hardware stack
solution architects, who would draw boxes and arrows and manage the business software stack
data architects, who would look at these arrows and ensure the data would end up in the appropriate system
platform architects, who would manage either the evolution of a complex enterprise software or the use of some development platform
I'm probably missing some.
Good platform architect can help in a situation like "ok suppose we want to use AWS for our project, now which services out of slightly over 9000 we'll need to look into to solve this specific set of problems?" - there's probably a specific name for that but I don't remember now. Good data architect is hugely valuable because proper data architecture may mean the difference between running a job for a week or being done in 15 minutes. But those are also very hard to find, in my experience.
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