Is anyone a Technical/Solutions Architect?

Cerebro

The title pretty much says it all. What appeals to me about this path is that its a mix of technical and user interaction, and seeing the bigger picture. I am interested if anyone has gone down this path?

Thanks.

gorebrush

Yep, I'd love to read about experiences too.

blargoe

Me too. Positions like this are harder to find in my market area, but this is the type of position I am gearing toward next.

shodown

I feel that roll about 30 percent is my current position. What would you like to know. I can answer some of it, but not all of it as its not my primary job.

GAngel

I've been a SA but it's a pretty broad role depending on if you're internal or external.

Some of the projects were implementing a new firewall system without downtime for a 100k user org, liasing between security and the C-suite, deploying win7 and all the associated apps. From costing, modelling to UAT most of it is usually long term projects.

Most of my day was in meetings, powerpoint, access and excel 8-12 hour days.

Generic version:
Ongoing problem or solution needed
Identify problem and no resources avail to fix at hand
find the cost to the business & mock up costs estimates for mitigation(this is probably 80% of the work)
Take to senior management for buy in.
the rest is typical it manager implementation work