Solution Architect

Primary role of solution architect is to understand business problems of client and provide him the correct solution.

 

A solution architect starts his day with meetings. Meeting with clients, meeting with project team. His work starts even before starting of the project. He works with sales team on new opportunities (RFPs, RFCs) to provide future solution, effort estimation and staffing plan with skill sets required to deliver solution.

During initial phase of project, he needs to create a high level architecture of solution based on his discussions with client and proposed solution. He also needs to come up with high level design of major components of solution by discussing it with development team technical leads and senior developers.

During project phase, he need to work with project team including development team, QA team and project manager. He need to review the solution/ code being developed with project team to make sure that it is according to project architecture and design. He needs to make sure that developed solution is as per architecture and design.