Infrastructure and operations

Solutions Architect

Translates business and technical requirements into secure, operable system designs and explicit trade-offs.

Skills

Solution architecture
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Defines system boundaries, responsibilities, constraints, and quality attributes.
Course coverage
- Course planned (1)
System design
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Selects components and interaction patterns for scalable systems.
Course coverage
- Courses planned (2)
Architecture decisions
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Records options, trade-offs, and consequences for consequential decisions.
Course coverage
- Architecture Decision Records
Stakeholder communication
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Communicates designs and trade-offs to technical and business audiences.
Course coverage
- Course planned (1)

Distributed systems
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Reasons about consistency, failure, messaging, and service boundaries.
Course coverage
- Distributed Systems Fundamentals
Integration and APIs
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Designs stable APIs and integration patterns between systems.
Course coverage
- API Design
- Platform API Design
- Course planned (1)
Cloud architecture
Importance: Very important (4 of 5)
Applies cloud service and deployment models to solution constraints.
Course coverage
- Cloud Architecture
Security architecture
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Integrates identity, data protection, and threat mitigations into designs.
Course coverage
- Course planned (1)