Solution Architect
Design integrated solutions that connect business requirements with sustainable technical choices.
Career Relationships
Directed transitions from Solution Architect. Select a destination to inspect the relationship.
- Enterprise Architect
Advancement
- Cloud Practice Lead
Management
- Security Architect
Specialisation
- Platform Architect
Specialisation
Cloud Practice Lead
Architecture experience can contribute to leading a cloud practice.
Responsibilities that change
People leadership, capability development and service portfolio.
Recommended experience
- Leadership of cloud delivery teams.
- Development of a technical service offering.
Additional or higher skill requirements
- Leadership · target 5 / 5Source: 4 / 5
- Communication · target 5 / 5Source: 4 / 5
- Stakeholder Management · target 5 / 5Source: 4 / 5
- People Management · target 4 / 5Source: Not required in source role
- Go-to-Market · target 3 / 5Source: Not required in source role
Explore onward paths from Cloud Practice Lead
- Transformation Lead · Lateral mobility
- Program Manager · Lateral mobility
- Engineering Manager · Lateral mobility
These are differences between role requirements, not a person's assessed gaps. Individual readiness and transition timing require personal evidence and human review.
Incoming paths
Roles with a defined transition towards this profession. Reverse transitions are not implied.
- System Engineer · Specialisation
- Senior System Engineer · Specialisation
- Cloud Engineer · Advancement
- Platform Architect · Lateral mobility
- Network Architect · Lateral mobility
- Engineering Lead · Specialisation
- Technical Trainer · Lateral mobility