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
Security Architect
Integrated solution design can develop towards a dedicated security architecture focus.
Responsibilities that change
Threat modelling, security controls and cross-domain risk decisions.
Recommended experience
- Security design reviews across infrastructure and applications.
Additional or higher skill requirements
- Cybersecurity · target 5 / 5Source: Not required in source role
- Cloud Security · target 5 / 5Source: Not required in source role
- Incident Response · target 4 / 5Source: Not required in source role
- Networking · target 4 / 5Source: Not required in source role
Explore onward paths from Security Architect
- Enterprise Architect · Advancement
- Network Architect · 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