What qualities should a software architect have?

In the software development industry, a qualified architect usually needs to have the following qualities:

First: solid technology accumulation. Many architects in the software industry have grown up as programmers, and a solid R&D foundation can make architects' design solutions more feasible. Of course, not all architects need to master the technical details, with the rapid development of the current software industry, many architects often focus on the solution itself, so there are also some architects in the industry who do not know many technical details.

Second: strong learning ability. For architects, they must keep up with the development trend of technology, continuously enrich and improve their knowledge structure, so as to design a solution that is more in line with the development direction. In the era of big data, it is very important for architects to master the technologies related to big data and cloud computing.

Third: strong communication skills. Architects need to communicate a lot in the process of designing the plan, on the one hand, to understand the core functional demands and future development requirements of the product, and on the other hand, to discuss the specific details of the solution with the R&D team. Therefore, for architects, strong communication skills are an important foundation to ensure the smooth progress of work.

In addition to the above capabilities, for architects, the ability to write schemes is also more important, and a large number of verification experiments are often required in the process of formulating solutions, which is also relatively large. At present, many companies will equip architects with technical experts, and an important task of technical experts is to cooperate with architects to verify the scheme, which reduces the burden on architects to a certain extent and allows architects to focus more on the design of the scheme.