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
Platform Architect
End-to-end design experience can transfer to shared engineering platform architecture.
Responsibilities that change
Platform interfaces, developer experience and reusable delivery capabilities.
Recommended experience
- Design of shared engineering platforms.
- Operation of containerised delivery environments.
Additional or higher skill requirements
- CI/CD · target 4 / 5Source: Not required in source role
Explore onward paths from Platform Architect
- Solution Architect · Lateral mobility
- Enterprise Architect · Advancement
- Engineering Lead · Management
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