A few years ago I worked for a company that just created a new IT team for "integration." One member of the team was the "solution architect." There was no formal definition of that role but there was an informal understanding that the person will be responsible to ensure that the system works end-to-end. Since then, the role has become more common and there are more or less formal definitions many of which are very generic and, as a result, they loose any practical meaning. Recently, having the task of training people for the Solution Architect role, I tried again to explain what Solution Architects do and how they do it.
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