BCS Specialist Architecture Awards

As an enterprise architect, you’ll bring organisational strategy to life by aligning IT solutions with business objectives. You’ll make innovation possible while ensuring that change is both efficient and effective. And just as importantly, you will make sure the organisation’s IT infrastructure can grow and adapt as the business evolves.

This award will help you:

• Explain the role of enterprise architecture and analyse existing capabilities and areas for improvement within the organisation
• Assess and manage stakeholder relationships
• Support business strategy and plan towards objectives
• Understand enterprise architecture in the context of the wider organisation
• Carry out key enterprise architecture activities
• Apply the appropriate governance

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Solution architects devise and implement solutions that tackle an organisation’s needs, problems, and opportunities. In this role, you’ll play a vital part in achieving business strategy and averting major risks.

This award will help you:

• Explain the role of solution architecture and be able to analyse problems, risks, opportunities, and solutions within the organisation
• Consider the relationships between different architecture domains as well as different teams and stakeholders within the organisation
• Carry out key solution architecture activities
• Build and analyse the requirements and identify constraints
• Apply appropriate governance when making decisions
• Use change management techniques to improve processes and artefacts

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Data architects design and manage data infrastructure. As a specialist, you’ll provide stakeholders with high-quality data they can use to make informed decisions that contribute to business success.

This award will help you:

• Explain the role of data architecture and how it supports organisational strategy
• Analyse the relationship between data architecture and other architecture domains
• Carry out key data architecture activities
• Assess data requirements, data maturity, and how data is used
• Understand how data and artefacts should be governed

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A cloud infrastructure architect is responsible for establishing a strategic framework to optimise IT sources, enhance performance, improve scalability, and mitigate security threats. Cloud infrastructure architecture defines the design and structure of an organisation’s technological foundation.

This award will help you demonstrate a practical understanding of:

• The role of cloud infrastructure architecture.
• The relationship of cloud infrastructure architecture to other domains.
• The activities undertaken by cloud infrastructure architects.
• Cloud infrastructure architecture: skills and knowledge.
• How cloud infrastructure architecture is governed.

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Security architecture is a sub domain within enterprise architecture which focuses the security of structures, processes, and technology necessary to protect assets, data, and systems,

from threats and risks. This certification will give candidates an in-depth understanding of the role of a security architect and the activities undertaken by them.

This award will help you demonstrate a practical understanding of:

• The role of security architecture.
• The relationship between security architecture and the other architecture domains.
• The skills and knowledge required by security architects.
• The activities undertaken by security architects.
• Security architecture governance and decision-making processes.

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