Career in IT?

[thedoc46]

Save yourself years of frustration and misery and do a plumbing course instead.

Dunno about you, but i'd much rather sit in a good clean office, earning a good salary, in a reasonably low pressure position , well at least enough to come on ocUK every now and again for a browse, then stick my hand down some old toilet.. or climb around a dirty old attic getting spiders in my face.

 

[Shaz]sigh[]

Not disjointed at all.

Solutions Architect does the high level design
Technical Architect does the detailed design
Projects Team implement
Support Team support

The Solutions Architect has a high level overall knowledge of a reasonable number of technologies where as the Technical Architect has more detailed knowledge in various areas and in the setup of a selection of Customer estates.

We just define what elements can be used by the Architects and how they can use them following the policies and standards set by ourselves and our CTO department. We also check that the Architects are doing what they should and that what comes out the other end will work and be supportable by making sure things are being implemented properly.

The Project team receive the hardware and software they require and implement as per the design with reference to our cookbooks on how to configure things. Once they have built the system(s) they then go through an acceptance process into support.

Moving too much into the Projects area has caused way to many issues in the past and led to things being agreed to and implemented which should have never happened. Particularly when the infrastructure may be being used across multiple Customers.

The Projects team will also being working on multiple projects at once for different project managers, (we have >70 solution/technical architects last I heard who produce a lot of things to be implemented).

I'm interested to know who you work for. Your architects sound... well, questionable and you have a boat load of them.

Sounds like they are awesome at building castles.

 

[Guest2]

Think it all depends on the company the work for and more importantly who you work with/for.

 

[memyselfandi]

I'm interested to know who you work for. Your architects sound... well, questionable and you have a boat load of them.

Sounds like they are awesome at building castles.

I wouldn't trust them to build sand castles ....

(.... I would also like to know what half of them actually do .... )