How to get a job as an IT Architect?

Description

The "How to get a job as an IT Architect?" course will give the students all the information they need to actually secure a job as an IT Architect by preparing the students for a smooth transition from your current IT practitioner job to any of the IT Architect roles such as Application, Software, Solution, Enterprise, Business, Infrastructure, Architects ensuring they can successfully obtain the position and perform the role in a relatively short amount of time.

The prerequisites for this course are to understand the IT industry and the various IT practitioner roles such as: Developer, Systems Analyst, Quality Assurance Analyst, etc. It is advisable to have worked in the IT industry as a developer /programmer or one of the other IT practitioners such as Systems Analysts, Database Administrator, Systems Administrator, Network specialist, Infrastructure Specialist, etc.

I would also recommend the following courses from the “How to become an IT architect” program:

•“Introduction to the IT Architect role” course to get a better understanding of the various IT Architect role

•“Architecture design, modelling and technical skills for IT Architects” course to know what are the general and technical skills and competencies required to become a successful IT Architect including:

• Technical Knowledge as the foundation for becoming an IT Architect

• Architects as T-shaped professionals and what are the implications for their required breadth and depth of skills

• Architecture design skills

• Architecture modelling skills corresponding to different modeling languages.

•The Industry knowledge, its dimensions and how it applies to the various IT Architect roles

•The Business knowledge its importance and how it relates to the industry knowledge

•Soft skills and competencies for IT Architects and IT practitioners to understand what are the soft skills such as leadership, communication, presentation, facilitation, etc. required to become an Application Architect.

•Documents produced by IT Architects to understand what are the documents that an Application Architect will need to produce, how to collect and present the information.

•Once of the career path courses – One of the following:

•Career path - How to become a Business Architect

•Career path - How to become an Application Architect

•Career path - How to become a Data Architect

•Career path - How to become an Enterprise Architect

•Career path - How to become an Infrastructure Architect

•Having IT Architecture specific knowledge (frameworks and methodologies) to understand what are the IT architecture frameworks, methodologies modeling languages, etc. used by an Application Architect to produce documentation.

Please note you will need the courses above or the knowledge obtained from other sources in order to successfully use this course to get a job as an IT Architect.

What You Will Learn!

• Understand each of the prerequisites and why you need to successfully complete them before starting to look for an IT architect job.
• Understand what are the typical approaches/paths for a successful transition to an IT architect position.
• Understand what are the mandatory and recommended certifications that would help you pursue an IT Architect job.
• Understand what kind of IT Architect role would be the best fit for you and what is the gap between your current situation and what is required to perform the r
• Understand why you may want to look very closely at the job responsibilities as the "architect" role might not be all about architecture and might include other
• Understand the benefits and drawbacks of becoming an IT architect within the same company.
• Understand what are the basics you need to display in order to be not just a candidate but the successful one.
• Understand what is the "cherry on top of the cake" - the ultimate factor to separate you from the rest of the candidates and ensure you WILL GET THE JOB.

Who Should Attend!

• The audience for this course is composed of any IT practitioners such as: Software Developers, Programmers, Quality Assurance Analyst, Systems Analysts, Database Administrator, Systems Administrator, Network specialist, Infrastructure Specialist, who would like to become one of the types of IT Architects (as described in the “Introduction to the IT Architect roles” course). The audience for this course is also composed of any existing IT Architects such as Application, Solution, Software, Business, Enterprise, Infrastructure architects who would like to ensure successfully changing their jobs either from one company to another or by moving between different types of IT Architect jobs

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