Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where an enterprise architect can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role an enterprise architect already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Enterprise architects balance technological opportunities with business requirements. They also maintain a holistic view of the organisation's strategy, processes, information and ICT assets and link the business mission, strategy and processes to the ICT strategy.

Also known as enterprise architects, enterprise developer, enterprise architecture manager, enterprise designer.

Professionals 91 skills on file 5 career moves 3 above 60% overlap Closest: numerical tool and process control programmer, 68%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
numerical tool and process co… 68% covered computer-aided design operator 62% covered software architect 62% covered chief information officer 59% covered software analyst 54% covered enterprise architect You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from enterprise architect, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role an enterprise architect already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Table 3

Table 3 · What the job itself asks for

An enterprise architect needs 23 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • design enterprise architecture communication, collaboration and creativity
  • review development process of an organisation management skills
  • ICT architectural frameworks information and communication technologies (icts)
  • define software architecture communication, collaboration and creativity
  • apply ICT system usage policies assisting and caring
  • identify processes for re-engineering management skills
  • keep up with the latest information systems solutions information skills
  • manage ICT data architecture communication, collaboration and creativity
  • align software with system architectures working with computers
  • design information system communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what an enterprise architect does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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Enterprise architect is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of an enterprise architect’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.