Software architect

A software architect is a software engineer responsible for high-level design choices related to overall system structure and behavior.

It's software architect's responsibility to match architectural characteristics (aka non-functional requirements) with business requirements. For example:


 * Having a high customer satisfactions 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 deplorability.