Where a software architect can go next
12 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a software architect already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Software architects create the technical design and the functional model of a software system, based on functional specifications. They also design the architecture of the system or different modules and components related to the business' or customer requirements, technical platform, computer language or development environment.
- Highest coverage recorded
- 68%
- Destinations
- 12each with a full record
- Within reach
- 6difficulty under 55
- Skills on file
- 89required or supplementary
Table 1 · Within reach
- numerical tool and process control programmer 68% covered · difficulty 46.1
- embedded system designer 67% covered · difficulty 45.3
- computer-aided design operator 64% covered · difficulty 52.3
- ICT system architect 63% covered · difficulty 52.4
- ICT application configurator 58% covered · difficulty 54.3
- embedded systems software developer 58% covered · difficulty 54.3
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
- mobile application developer 57% covered · difficulty 56.1
- ICT application developer 54% covered · difficulty 59.3
- industrial mobile devices software developer 53% covered · difficulty 60.1
- enterprise architect 53% covered · difficulty 60.6
- knowledge engineer 52% covered · difficulty 61.4
- ICT system developer 51% covered · difficulty 62.7
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How these figures were compiled
Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a software architect already meets, counting required skills in full and supplementary ones at 0.35. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.