Functional Architect

As an Individual Contributor, Functional Architect has following responsibilities

Nature and scope responsibilities exercised

As part of the development of business products, the solution architect transverse declines the architecture principles to ensure:

• The framing of IS products by specifying their functional scope
• Decoupling and reuse of existing components
• The specification of the interfaces to be used or developed in accordance with the business information model
• Product architecture validation in architecture committee

Define overall architecture and monitor projects

• Lead architecture definition workshops (collect needs and business processes)
• Identify data sources and interfaces
• Identify macro-impacts on existing products and products to Build
• Define the target architecture and the steps to achieve it
• Flows of the systems impacted by the initiative to build the architectural target.
• Formalize the chosen architecture
• Validate the result within the architecture committee
• Identify potential stakeholders to be involved and build a better understanding of the context
• Sketch high-level architecture orientations about the envisaged changes/solution
• Understand the system (System of Interest) in terms of capabilities and proposes either for the as-is analysis or the projected target
• Understand the perimeter and the needs in terms of business concepts
• Understand the global picture of business capabilities and the impact of the initiative
• Construct the exhaustive list of possible impacts and adhesions to look for solutions
• Identify/understand the scope of an initiative (or the "area under study ")
• Have a global understanding of the initiative (stakes, objectives, needs, scope, benefits, etc.)
• Identify the motivations that guide the design or change of the architecture
• Collaborate with Solution Architects / Product team in implementing the target architecture
• Capitalize in the cartographic repository the architecture implemented by the project
• Define and participate in the implementation of tools to industrialize architecture activities
• Participate in collaboration with architects in studies (vision job, study of the existing, definition of the target and roadmap of transformation, project portfolio management)
• Participate in the definition of business information models and its application in projects
• Ensure cross-functional consideration of information models business and governance of application interfaces.
• Create/Update Data Model for the given scope
• Identify data sources, interfaces, macro-impacts on products, Understand/Contribute business information model (BIM)