Architect defined by skills

Joseph Hofstader discusses the skills that Architect role demands - We Don’t Need No Architects.

There are four of them of categorized into two phases of software development - problem definition and solution development,

Problem Definition

1. Domain - understand the domain well enough.
   


2. Conceptual - is able to conceptualize and abstract.
   

Solution Development

1. Technical - understands technology well and is always updated.


2. Pattern - has rich pattern vocabulary, is able to apply them to design and use them to discuss intelligently the solution.