Architect for the whole context

Quoted from the UK GDaD PCF.

Levels

1. Awareness

You can:

• identify relevant information that can inform your architectural work, such as strategies, roadmaps, policies and technical trends
• understand how your work supports the team in enabling change​

2. Working

You can:

• align your work with the work being done by other architects and technical professionals
• track emerging issues, strategies, roadmaps, patterns and technologies over time to assess opportunities and risks to your work
• identify how other teams contribute to delivering outcomes through change

3. Practitioner

You can:

• work to support wider organisational objectives beyond your immediate goals​
• track emerging internal and external issues over time that could affect the work of teams across the organisation
• take action to solve or mitigate problems by influencing colleagues across the organisation

4. Expert

You can:

• assess how trends in society and industry practices might impact the organisation
• work with people outside of your organisation to inform policies, strategies and standards
• anticipate changes to policy and build resilience through your architectural work
• coach others in identifying important trends

Contains public sector information from the UK Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework (https://understand-digital-data-roles-skills.service.gov.uk/), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright.

Closest ESCO skills

• think holistically (close match)
• systems thinking (close match)
• design enterprise architecture (broad match)

Contains ESCO v1.2.1 data (https://esco.ec.europa.eu/). © European Union. Reuse authorised under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU.

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