How to become an Enterprise Architect in 4 stages

Shashi Sastry
Analyst’s corner
Published in
5 min readSep 24, 2020

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An 8m podcast on the recommended route.

Enterprise Architect Capabilities
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Do you want to become an Enterprise Architect? This episode is about how you can, wherever you may be in your Information Technology career today.

This talk is not about the Enterprise Architecture method. Neither is it a detailed definition of the EA practitioner. But for context, we can keep this definition in mind -

Enterprise Architects ensure that an organisation chooses, builds and operates IT-based business solutions in a coordinated and controlled manner, aligned to the enterprise’s tactical and strategic needs.

There are four essential stages in the journey to becoming an EA. Two for acquiring technical depth and two for evolving the width. Let me take you through them.

Stage 1 — Acquire the depth — Code and Design

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Shashi Sastry
Analyst’s corner

I am a prism, refracting the light of thought into a rainbow of content for you. Poetry, philosophy, architecture, and more. LESS STUFF, MORE VEG = A FUTURE.