Making architectural decisions

Quoted from the UK GDaD PCF.

Levels

1. Awareness

You can:

• describe the reasoning behind architectural design decisions
• gather information to inform decisions
• understand architectural governance and assurance relevant to your work

2. Working

You can:

• work with others to make architectural design decisions characterised by managed levels of risk and complexity
• identify and address architectural risks relevant to your team or domain, for example, business, data, or security
• engage with architectural governance and assurance to effectively manage decisions and risks, with support

3. Practitioner

You can:

• make and guide architectural design decisions characterised by medium risk and complexity
• identify and address architectural risks that affect multiple teams or domains
• use architectural governance and assurance to make design decisions and manage technical risks at the appropriate level
• contribute to the development of architectural governance and assurance

4. Expert

You can:

• make and guide architectural design decisions characterised by high levels of risk and complexity
• identify and address architectural risks across the organisation or wider government
• lead and evolve architectural governance and assurance
• represent architectural governance as part of wider governance, for example, legal or commercial

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.

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• optimise choice of ICT solution (close match)
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