Solution architecture
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Defines system boundaries, responsibilities, constraints, and quality attributes.
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Solutions Architect
Translates business and technical requirements into secure, operable system designs and explicit trade-offs.
Skill coverage
100%
Course coverage
95%
Skill coverage shows how much of the role's capability map already has a published course. Course coverage shows how much of the mapped course pipeline for this role has shipped.
- Role skills
- 8
- Published coverage
- 8
- Relevant courses
- 41
Capability map
Skills
Importance describes how central each capability is to the role. Course coverage shows where you can build the skill in the current OpenSkills catalog.
01
Architecture practice
4 capabilities
System design
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Selects components and interaction patterns for scalable systems.
Architecture decisions
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Records options, trade-offs, and consequences for consequential decisions.
Stakeholder communication
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Communicates designs and trade-offs to technical and business audiences.
Course coverage
- Technical Stakeholder Communication
- Stakeholder Mapping and Influence (planned)
02
Solution domains
4 capabilities
Distributed systems
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Reasons about consistency, failure, messaging, and service boundaries.
Course coverage
- Distributed Systems Fundamentals
- Apache Kafka Fundamentals
- Apache Pulsar Fundamentals
- Cloud Native Application Design
- Distributed Consensus
- Distributed Transactions
- Event Streaming
- Event-Driven Architecture
- Message Queues
- Messaging Fundamentals
- Microservices Data Patterns
- Microservices Fundamentals
- NATS Fundamentals
- RabbitMQ Fundamentals
- Service Mesh Fundamentals
Integration and APIs
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Designs stable APIs and integration patterns between systems.
Cloud architecture
Importance: Very important (4 of 5)
Applies cloud service and deployment models to solution constraints.
Course coverage
Security architecture
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Integrates identity, data protection, and threat mitigations into designs.
Course coverage
- Security Architecture
- Zero Trust Architecture (planned)
Learning path
Relevant courses
Core foundations
The concepts this role is built on.
Supporting knowledge
Adjacent knowledge that improves day-to-day judgment.
- Apache Kafka Fundamentals
- Apache Pulsar Fundamentals
- API Gateways
- Application Architecture
- Architecture Diagramming
- Cloud ArchitectureFree
- Cloud Migration
- Cloud Native Application Design
- Cloud Native Architecture
- Diagramming Technical Systems
- Distributed Consensus
- Distributed Transactions
- Enterprise Architecture Fundamentals
- Enterprise Integration Patterns
- Enterprise Service Buses
- Event Streaming
- Event-Driven Architecture
- gRPC Fundamentals
- Message Queues
- Messaging Fundamentals
- Microservices Data Patterns
- Microservices Fundamentals
- NATS Fundamentals
- Platform API Design
- RabbitMQ Fundamentals
- Service Mesh Fundamentals
- Service-Oriented Architecture
- Software Architecture Fundamentals
- System Integration
- Technology Architecture
- TOGAF Fundamentals
- Stakeholder Mapping and Influence, Zero Trust Architecture (planned)
Specializations
Deeper paths for particular environments or directions.
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