Software architect

<p>A software architect is a <a href="/facts/Software_engineering/KX6cE9kz">software engineer</a> responsible for high-level design choices related to overall <a href="/facts/Software_architecture/1Hokp0Ed">system structure</a> and behavior.
</p><p>It's software architect's responsibility to match <a href="/facts/List_of_system_quality_attributes/8r5uqdwE">architectural characteristics</a> (aka <a href="/facts/Non-functional_requirement/HQSfMlH2">non-functional requirements</a>) with business requirements. For example: 
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<ul><li>Having a high <a href="/facts/Customer_satisfaction/upP4jHb9">customer satisfactions</a> requires availability, fault tolerance, security, testability, recoverability, agility and performance in the system.</li>
<li>Doing <a href="/facts/Mergers_and_acquisitions/YfczSf3M">mergers and acquisitions</a> (M&A) requires extensibility, scalability, adaptability, and interoperability</li>
<li>Constrained budget and time requires feasibility and simplicity</li>
<li>Faster <a href="/facts/Time_to_market/zfJzIQBN">time-to-market</a> requires maintainability, testability and deployability.</li></ul>

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Software architect