Service Oriented Architecture - Candidate

• Be prepared and have multi-technical skills. High demand skills include expertise in;
• Object oriented development and design
• Enterprise applications like SAP, Oracle and MS Dynamics
• Middleware development and deployment
• Business Intelligence products and strategies
• Database design
• System security
• Architects will need to have:
• Object oriented development background
• Knowledge of technology solutions across the entire enterprise
• Hands on experience of the entire technology stack
• Communication skills
• Be prepared to educate business stakeholders on the risks and rewards and
• Interface with developers, partners, vendors and customers
• Documentation skills
• Clearly present the current and future state of the business functions
• Ability to present tangible benefits outside of IT
• Don’t go it alone. Join user groups and read the experts
• SOAUG (SOAUG.net)
• Arch2Arch (dev2dev.bea.com/arch2arch)
• Enterprise Integration Patterns
  Gregor Hohpe and Bobby Woolf
  ISBN 0321200683
• Enterprise Solution Patterns using Microsoft .Net
  David Trowbridge, Gregor Hohpe, James Newkirk, David Lavigne
  ISBN 0735618399
• Lastly, be patient.
• You will be selling a concept that may be hard for the business applications owners to comprehend and may be a threat to their fiefdom. They will need to be educated and comforted