Information Architect

The role of the Information Architect

What is an Information Architect? What is the added value of Information Architects in the organization? This page sheds light on the Job Description for Information Architect.

From the perspective of the Dragon1 Open EA Method, an Information Architect at best works at a strategic level, designing total information (system) concepts for fundamental strategic information services & business changes.

You can download this Information Architect job description pdf using it for internal job descriptions. If you want to use this commercially, you need to contact first the Dragon1 Architecture Foundation: info@dragon1.org.

Information Architect Job Description

Information Architect Definition

The EA Method defines an Information Architect as The designer of total concepts (=architecture) for Information Systems and Structures (f.i. Companies, Service Centers, and Business Units) and the supervisor of the realization of information systems and structures implementing the total concept.

So the focus of an Information Architect is to design Information Architecture, where Information Architecture equals a specific total business concept, namely a concept consisting of coherent constructive, operative, and decorative business concepts.

Knowledge, experience and competence profile

Basic Qualifications

Higher Professional Education skilled. Additional training in technical, organizational, and business disciplines.

Preferred Qualifications

Knowledge of and experience with service orientation, component-based development, data modeling, interfacing, application development, organization of information facility and IT Infrastructure, Information Management and IT Service Management, IT Governance, project-oriented work, process-oriented work, case-oriented work, architecture principles, business processes.

Dragon1 as EA Tool

Information Architects make use of tools to create information products or deliverables. The most used tools are still: Pen, Paper, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio, and MS Excel.

With tools an Information Architect can create their business building blocks, and fragments and make more reuse of parts of their Information Architecture.

Dragon1 is modeling, presentation, and diagramming software for Business Professionals and can be perfectly used by Information Architects as an EA Tool.

Information Architect Training

Dragon1 Academy offers training and certification in the EA Tool and also in the open EA Method (Dragon1 Professional) for anyone who wants to become an Information Architect.