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Mike and Elonzo Happy New Year This is a great segment in understanding the Architect roles in the Cloud. It is great that you pointed out the role descriptions are nuanced and depend primarily on how the entities we work for define it. As a successful #cloudhired student of your programme in 2021, knowing what roles suit our personalities or what we enjoy matters. The architect is a person who can understand the design/build, know the strengths and weakness of the infrastructure under review. You understand how different build blocks fit together and depending on the nature of project and resources the level of deep technical or engineering input will vary. My present employer alignes the Solution Architect as a customer-facing role. While the Cloud Architect is a Cloud subject matter expert dedicated to solutions from one or more Public Cloud Service Provider. Some organisations expect you to have coding or hands-on skills as well however these are seen as valuable tools to have instead of mandatory requirement. Ultimately the role depends on where you spend your time on. The great thing about both roles is you never stop learning, there always the requiste need to stay abreast of new developments which should hopefully deliver better outcomes to our customers.
This interview and explsinstion of the differences between Architects was great. Very concise and insightful. It definitely cleared up the Architect roles for me. I chose Solutions Architect.
6:2x; 8:xx- Liked how Mike explains the roles. You can tell that is an experienced rather ole school techie/architect. Liked how Alonzo clarified & interviewed. Glad I got an explanation of the variances between Enterprise & Cloud Architect in particular (non-vendor specific).
Yes that’s the cut and paste job description we always discus. There is no Devops, SysOps in architectural. Thanks for sharing your thoughts Richard. Oh BTW you are a great cloud architect!
@@GoCloudArchitects thank you Michael, I have learned from @Go Cloud Architects as I taught me so much and I am forever grateful of being part of such a great community.
Thank you Mike for another well thought out explanation on the different job titles used in the Business\Technology workforce. Qualifying experiences is not always clear and this was a big help!
As someone that also has done all the architecture roles described. This is a good video, but I would augment the Solution Architecture role to not just a specific platform but a cross platform solution that the project needs. Lots of companies, have solution architects that need to know many techs. EA’s also are very domain specific in their knowledge when it comes to supporting the business.
Great points. In this video we are describing average role. I have done all architecture roles for 25 years and coached thousands of architects. Some solutions architects do work cross platform. But most try to keep it to their company and are compensated (bonus/commission) for driving up the use of a single platform. For example an AWS solutions architect will earn more by selling more AWS services. Not for recommending a multi cloud solution. Most enterprise architects are really business focused. That can be a single domain like healthcare or it could be many industries. My specialty was healthcare. But I also worked in banking. It depends upon the background and level of business acumen for the enterprise architect. It’s also very dependent on how strategic technology is to the business. As a rule architecture careers are a bit ambiguous. But one things is for sure. If we are doing architecture we aren’t doing engineering.
@@GoCloudArchitects I also grew up in this field in the 90’s so a lot of your history I can relate to. I started out as a Software Engineer at Lockheed Martin and moved on to other companies like IBM and start-ups during the dotcom days to AOL’s reign in the internet until today as 15 yrs in EA. Currently at a Big 4 and was at a Fortune 13 (for healthcare as a Finance EA) just prior for over 10 years. EA is really something you need experience in industry for a while to be truly effective and carry weight with not just Business but all the associated IT teams. You said it correctly that EA is basically an internal management consultant which I agree with. You really are more business focused than IT, but you still need to have a firm understanding of IT and current IT market trends to be effective for the long run.
Solutions Architect - Meet with clients, asks them about their business goals, business pain points, problems - Then designs solutions to solve those business problems using a single vendor technology (e.g AWS), then presents and sells those solutions
Hi Mike, thank you for your work and dedication. I wonder if you suggested to make an improvement in your webinar scheduler and add an option to choose a time zone. This will help people, who want to attend your live sessions, to easily understand when the event will happen in their part of the world. Thank you 🙂
Valeria, Thank you. I’m not sure I understand what you are suggesting. We hold all webinars in EST and all that’s necessary is to convert to the correct time zone. This is something we do multiple times per day as cloud Architects when we have customers all over the world. We are in EST. Which is GMT - 5 For example PST is GMT -8 The UK is generally GMT UAE is GMT + 5 Frances is GMT + 1 Are you suggesting we put a time zone converter on our website like those free on the internet or are you asking for something else. Here is an example of a free time converter web site. There are so many more out there www.worldtimebuddy.com Or are you asking something different. I want to help I just don’t understand exactly what your suggesting
Thanks for this great video. Very Informative and Clear. Also, I would like to understand where does "Principal" Cloud Architect fits in. Is it more senior Cloud Architect or there are more like Enterprise Architect?
A principal is an expert architect. Its really a way to provide leadership pay (300-700k) to someone in a cloud architect or enterprise architect role. Otherwise with the leadership and business acumen needed to be a great architect we would all move into management if there was not this path for long term success. I enjoyed the principal architect role very much in my career.
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Thank you. You are awesome.
Mike and Elonzo Happy New Year
This is a great segment in understanding the Architect roles in the Cloud. It is great that you pointed out the role descriptions are nuanced and depend primarily on how the entities we work for define it.
As a successful #cloudhired student of your programme in 2021, knowing what roles suit our personalities or what we enjoy matters. The architect is a person who can understand the design/build, know the strengths and weakness of the infrastructure under review. You understand how different build blocks fit together and depending on the nature of project and resources the level of deep technical or engineering input will vary.
My present employer alignes the Solution Architect as a customer-facing role. While the Cloud Architect is a Cloud subject matter expert dedicated to solutions from one or more Public Cloud Service Provider. Some organisations expect you to have coding or hands-on skills as well however these are seen as valuable tools to have instead of mandatory requirement. Ultimately the role depends on where you spend your time on.
The great thing about both roles is you never stop learning, there always the requiste need to stay abreast of new developments which should hopefully deliver better outcomes to our customers.
This interview and explsinstion of the differences between Architects was great. Very concise and insightful. It definitely cleared up the Architect roles for me. I chose Solutions Architect.
6:2x; 8:xx-
Liked how Mike explains the roles. You can tell that is an experienced rather ole school techie/architect.
Liked how Alonzo clarified & interviewed.
Glad I got an explanation of the variances between Enterprise & Cloud Architect in particular (non-vendor specific).
This video provides such needed clarity on the differences between these roles and the role play really brings it home. Thanks!
This is a much needed video as I’ve seen job descriptions that have a title Solution Architect but it’s really a DevOps role.
Yes that’s the cut and paste job description we always discus.
There is no Devops, SysOps in architectural.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts Richard. Oh BTW you are a great cloud architect!
@@GoCloudArchitects thank you Michael,
I have learned from @Go Cloud Architects as I taught me so much and I am forever grateful of being part of such a great community.
Another great video that is very helpful in clarifying the various roles when working on the cloud. Thanks Mike and Elonzo.
This is so spot on! Concise explanation of the various type of Architect roles. Thanks @MikeGibbs
Thank you.
Thank you Mike for another well thought out explanation on the different job titles used in the Business\Technology workforce. Qualifying experiences is not always clear and this was a big help!
Thank you Brian
As someone that also has done all the architecture roles described. This is a good video, but I would augment the Solution Architecture role to not just a specific platform but a cross platform solution that the project needs. Lots of companies, have solution architects that need to know many techs. EA’s also are very domain specific in their knowledge when it comes to supporting the business.
Great points. In this video we are describing average role.
I have done all architecture roles for 25 years and coached thousands of architects.
Some solutions architects do work cross platform. But most try to keep it to their company and are compensated (bonus/commission) for driving up the use of a single platform. For example an AWS solutions architect will earn more by selling more AWS services. Not for recommending a multi cloud solution.
Most enterprise architects are really business focused. That can be a single domain like healthcare or it could be many industries. My specialty was healthcare. But I also worked in banking. It depends upon the background and level of business acumen for the enterprise architect. It’s also very dependent on how strategic technology is to the business.
As a rule architecture careers are a bit ambiguous. But one things is for sure. If we are doing architecture we aren’t doing engineering.
@@GoCloudArchitects I also grew up in this field in the 90’s so a lot of your history I can relate to. I started out as a Software Engineer at Lockheed Martin and moved on to other companies like IBM and start-ups during the dotcom days to AOL’s reign in the internet until today as 15 yrs in EA. Currently at a Big 4 and was at a Fortune 13 (for healthcare as a Finance EA) just prior for over 10 years.
EA is really something you need experience in industry for a while to be truly effective and carry weight with not just Business but all the associated IT teams. You said it correctly that EA is basically an internal management consultant which I agree with. You really are more business focused than IT, but you still need to have a firm understanding of IT and current IT market trends to be effective for the long run.
Solutions Architect
- Meet with clients, asks them about their business goals, business pain points, problems
- Then designs solutions to solve those business problems using a single vendor technology (e.g AWS), then presents and sells those solutions
Exactly. That’s what we do
Hi Mike, thank you for your work and dedication. I wonder if you suggested to make an improvement in your webinar scheduler and add an option to choose a time zone. This will help people, who want to attend your live sessions, to easily understand when the event will happen in their part of the world. Thank you 🙂
Valeria,
Thank you.
I’m not sure I understand what you are suggesting.
We hold all webinars in EST and all that’s necessary is to convert to the correct time zone. This is something we do multiple times per day as cloud Architects when we have customers all over the world.
We are in EST. Which is GMT - 5
For example PST is GMT -8
The UK is generally GMT
UAE is GMT + 5
Frances is GMT + 1
Are you suggesting we put a time zone converter on our website like those free on the internet or are you asking for something else.
Here is an example of a free time converter web site. There are so many more out there
www.worldtimebuddy.com
Or are you asking something different.
I want to help I just don’t understand exactly what your suggesting
Thanks for this great video. Very Informative and Clear. Also, I would like to understand where does "Principal" Cloud Architect fits in. Is it more senior Cloud Architect or there are more like Enterprise Architect?
A principal is an expert architect.
Its really a way to provide leadership pay (300-700k) to someone in a cloud architect or enterprise architect role.
Otherwise with the leadership and business acumen needed to be a great architect we would all move into management if there was not this path for long term success.
I enjoyed the principal architect role very much in my career.
GCA! 😶🌫👍