You should provide technical leadership to project team to perform design to deployment related activities, provide guidance, perform reviews, prevent and resolve technical issues. You would be responsible for defining and documenting architecture, capturing and documenting non-functional (architectural) requirements, preparing estimates and defining technical solutions to proposals (RFPs). You are expected have depth of knowledge of specified technological area, which includes knowledge of applicable processes, methodologies, standards, products and frameworks. "As an Architect you are responsible for providing technical leadership to small size/complexity/order-value projects. You would be responsible for defining and documenting architecture, capturing and documenting non-functional (architectural) requirements, preparing estimates and defining technical solutions to proposals (RFPs). Architecture of Datastage has changed drastically from 7.5 to 8.5 with a change from 2tier architecture to n-tier architecture and also the Datastage Metadata architecture is moved from file based metadata architecture in 7.5 to Database based Metadata architecture in 8.5.
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As an Architect you are responsible for providing technical leadership to small size/complexity/order-value projects.