Had the pleasure of having lunch with a highly skilled Solutions Architect

Won't bore you with too many details.

Has been an architect for 20 years
Started with Unix/IBM then transitioned to MS and AWS
Disclosed his pay last year, ~500,000
Travels every 6 - 12 weeks to another state unless he gets lucky
Brings his wife with him everywhere, no kids
I asked about certifications to relay back here. He kept focusing on TOGAF. he said there are certain companies who won't consider you if you don't have the knowledge of the framework and certification. I was under the impression this was only for real principal SA's.
Pushed for other certs, didn't really go into detail, mentioned AWS and Azure high level.
VERY knowledge in almost all domains
No security certs (I looked at his LinkedIn) but had a lot of knowledge

My take away was this guy has literally committed his whole life to this industry. And he is reaping a half million dollars a year salary now.

Pretty cool stuff, he will be leaving us in a few weeks. I may try to have lunch with him one more time.

Just wanted to pass this along, he is about as experience as you can get.

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Remedymp

DB;

Have you looked at getting into this yet?

https://www.simplilearn.com/how-to-become-a-big-data-hadoop-architect-article

DatabaseHead

Remedymp wrote: »

DB;

Have you looked at getting into this yet?

https://www.simplilearn.com/how-to-become-a-big-data-hadoop-architect-article

Thanks a lot reviewing now.

Remedy, have you had the chance to see MongoDB in action? A friend of my (in sales) showed me a solution that utilized Mongo back end and he literally grabbed a weeks set of data from the whole western region and was able to slice and dice insanes amount of data like an Excel pivot table. In a classic RDBMS (you are talking a week long query potentially).

Think every sub station on the west coast using this product (which is A LOT) and being able to crunch meter reads that come in every mill sec. Unreal capabilities.

Thanks again

scenicroute

I've always been confused by highly vague job titles, like Solutions Architect or Systems Engineer. In my head, it could mean almost anything. Can't quite wrap my mind around what these guys do, other than make a lot of money.

Remedymp

DatabaseHead wrote: »

Thanks a lot reviewing now.

Remedy, have you had the chance to see MongoDB in action? A friend of my (in sales) showed me a solution that utilized Mongo back end and he literally grabbed a weeks set of data from the whole western region and was able to slice and dice insanes amount of data like an Excel pivot table. In a classic RDBMS (you are talking a week long query potentially).

Think every sub station on the west coast using this product (which is A LOT) and being able to crunch meter reads that come in every mill sec. Unreal capabilities.

Thanks again

I have not. But, I've heard great things about it.

But, interview with netflix Jason Brown.

Very interesting about the complexities of MongoDB vs other platforms.

Remedymp

DB, Just bought this book here. Will post a summary when I complete it this week.