Professional Certification: Level 1 - Certified Digital Architect
Issued by
The Open Group
Digital Architects create the formalized description of digital solutions and roadmaps for enterprises to determine how they can undergo Digital Transformation to enable innovation to achieve their strategic goals. They support the synthesis of complex business, technology, and client issues into real-world strategies through the application of innovative approaches to solutions through development, procurement of services, and management of relationships with suppliers. (Open CA DA L1)
Additional DetailsSkills
- Act As Trusted Advisor
- Architecture
- Architecture Decisions
- Architecture Methods
- Architecture Validation
- Conflict Resolution
- Digital Architecture
- Digital Assurance
- Establishing Vision
- Functional Requirements
- Incremental Validation
- Leading Teams
- Management Of Risk
- Modeling
- Non-functional Requirements
- Outside-in Design
- Professional Communication
- Requirements Gathering
- Scoping Digital Transformation
- Solution Development
- Stakeholder Management
- Understanding Of Business
- Use Of Standards
Earning Criteria
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Certified Digital Architects achieve Certification by successfully completing an interview by a Level 2 or Level 3 Certified Architect, based upon a comprehensive package of information describing project and other experiences. The criteria used to decide on certification include all of the Skills mentioned above. At Level 1, Architects must be able to demonstrate these skills at an "applied" level, perhaps with support and mentoring.
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Certified Digital Architects must have at least 2 years of experience of contributing to the development of the architectural aspects of one or more projects or engagements, possibly with support or mentoring, and must have participated in the role of Architect in two successful, complex architectural engagements or projects
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Certified Digital Architects have a variety of experiences that demonstrate their contribution to successful solutions to complex problems covering e.g., people, process, technology, and management, and involving more than one dimension (products, technologies, services, processes, management, security, governance, etc.) and/or domain (Business, Data, Information, Application, Technology, Security, Integration, etc.)
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Certified Digital Architects have experience producing solutions that involve more than one type of technology and/or architecture.
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Certified Digital Architects must have demonstrated their appreciation of the impact of their architectural decisions on the realization and operation of a solution.
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A Certified Digital Architect's experience must include the understanding and appreciation of the solution lifecycle from strategy, design, and implementation through to completion, enabling the them to produce solution designs that are successful
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Certified Digital Architects must have completed formal training in the discipline of architecture (i.e., methods/frameworks for designing and defining architectures), either through attendance at a taught course, or through self-study.
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Certified Digital Architects must continually develop their technical and professional knowledge and skills in technology trends, vertical industry sectors, and architecture trends and techniques.
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Candidates must hold valid Open CA Level 1 (or 2) Professional Communication and Professional Development Milestone Badges plus two Open CA Level 1 Experience Profile Milestone Badges, at least one of which must be in Digital Architecture