Enterprise architects are responsible for the technical solutions and strategic direction of an organization. They must work with a variety of stakeholders to understand an organization's market, customers, products, business domain, requirements, and technology.
The enterprise architect ensures that an organization's business and strategic goals are in sync with the technical solutions. They need to take a holistic view to ensure that their architecture designs, and the designs of other architects, are in line with the overall organization.
They should have both a deep and broad understanding of technology so that they can make the proper recommendations and architecture designs. They must also look to the future to ensure that solutions are in line with both existing needs as well as anticipated ones.
In addition to high-level architecture design documents, enterprise architects work with other architects, such as application architects, to ensure that solutions meet all of the defined requirements. Enterprise architects come up with and maintain best practices for things such as designs, implementations, and policies. For organizations that have multiple software products, they will analyze them to identify areas for architectural reuse.
Enterprise architects provide guidance, mentorship, advice, and technical leadership for other architects and developers.