1.    Target architecture for own domain
    Accountable for defining and communicating the reference and target architecture for the domain, in alignment with the wider architecture roadmap (business area, solution portfolio).  
    Accountable and responsible for identifying the critical architectural attributes including architecturally significant requirements, for the domain.
    Responsible for contributing to definition of the wider architecture promoting systems approach.
    Responsible for driving architecture studies, when needed, to arrive at the right architecture addressing the needs of stakeholders.
    Responsible for identifying architecture improvement needs and opportunities, by following the performance of products and solutions, technology advancements etc., and ensure that the improvements are incorporated to architecture roadmaps. 
    Responsible for maintaining, updating and communicating architecture plans as things change and evolve, collaborating with various stakeholders to take the prevailing implementation constraints and business goals into consideration.
    Actively contributes to major technology selection exercises from an architecture perspective 
2.    Implementation of desired architecture  
    Responsible for bringing architecture perspective to decision making and planning activities helping to deal with complex systems, organizations and lifecycle processes.
    Responsible for guiding and advising implementation teams on detailed designs, verification and validation activities etc. 
    Responsible for influencing implementation activities, and where needed escalating architecture issues and deviations. 
    (Lead Architect) Contributes to partnering selections and decisions in terms of due diligence as well as subcontracting and sourcing. 
3.    Requirements management     
    (Lead Architect) Responsible for translating business requirements to system level technical requirements with the help of other stakeholders such as System engineers 
    Actively contributes to decomposition of system requirements to sub-system / Component / module level requirements with an aim to keep them aligned with target architecture.
4.    Delivery and operations excellence
    Provides technical leadership for finding solutions to acute major technical issues at hand, including possible major customer and delivery challenges.
    (Lead Architect) Contributes, consults and if necessary, takes lead in finding technical solutions for acute business needs and opportunities, that require urgent attention.
5.    (Lead Architect) Organizational and competence development 
    Contributes to planning and optimizing technical processes and ways of working with focus on own domain, in collaboration with senior managers.
    Develops and promotes technical and architectural skills, and architectural understanding among different functions including development teams and product management teams.

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