Solutions Architecture

Solutions Architect

Designing solution architectures that meet business requirements

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62 skills
213 requirements
109 mandatory
13 domains
Awareness 15 Working 50 Advanced 119 Expert 29
Level:
All domains Programming Fundamentals 8 Backend Development 2 Database Management 3 API & Integration 5 Cloud & Infrastructure 5 DevOps & CI/CD 1 Testing & QA 3 Security 5 AI-Assisted Development 4 Architecture & System Design 17 Observability & Monitoring 4 Version Control & Collaboration 3 Documentation 2
Profiles: Awareness Working Advanced Expert -- Click level to expand, click requirement for details and voting

Programming Fundamentals

8 skills · 30 requirements
Skill Junior Middle Senior Lead Principal
Algorithms & Data Structures
Algorithms & Complexity — — Working Advanced Advanced
Data Structures — — Working Advanced Advanced
OOP & Design Patterns
OOP & SOLID Principles — — Working Advanced Advanced
Design Patterns — — Working Advanced Advanced
Concurrency & Parallelism
Multithreading Awareness Working Advanced Advanced Expert
Async Programming Awareness Working Advanced Advanced Expert
Clean Code & Refactoring
Code Quality & Refactoring — — Working Advanced Advanced
Type Systems
Type Safety & Type Systems Awareness Working Advanced Advanced Expert

Backend Development

2 skills · 6 requirements
Skill Junior Middle Senior Lead Principal
Message Queues & Event Streaming
Apache Kafka — — Working Advanced Advanced
Caching
Redis — — Working Advanced Advanced

Database Management

3 skills · 13 requirements
Skill Junior Middle Senior Lead Principal
Relational Databases
PostgreSQL — — Working Advanced Advanced
Database Optimization
Database Indexing Awareness Working Advanced Advanced Expert
Query Optimization Awareness Working Advanced Advanced Expert

API & Integration

5 skills · 17 requirements
Skill Junior Middle Senior Lead Principal
REST API
REST API Design — — Working Advanced Advanced
GraphQL
GraphQL Design — — Working Advanced Advanced
gRPC
gRPC & Protocol Buffers — — Working Advanced Advanced
API Gateway & Service Communication
API Gateway — — Advanced Advanced Expert
API Management
API Documentation Awareness Working Advanced Advanced Expert

Cloud & Infrastructure

5 skills · 13 requirements
Skill Junior Middle Senior Lead Principal
Containerization
Docker — — Working Advanced Advanced
Kubernetes & Orchestration
Kubernetes Core — — Working Advanced Advanced
Infrastructure as Code
Terraform — — Working Advanced Advanced
Cloud Providers
AWS — — Working Advanced Advanced
Networking
Network Fundamentals — — Advanced — —

DevOps & CI/CD

1 skills · 5 requirements
Skill Junior Middle Senior Lead Principal
CI/CD
GitHub Actions / GitLab CI Awareness Working Advanced Advanced Expert

Testing & QA

3 skills · 15 requirements
Skill Junior Middle Senior Lead Principal
Unit Testing
Unit Testing Awareness Working Working Advanced Advanced
Integration Testing
Integration Testing Awareness Working Advanced Advanced Expert
E2E Testing
E2E Testing Awareness Working Advanced Advanced Expert

Security

5 skills · 21 requirements
Skill Junior Middle Senior Lead Principal
Application Security
OWASP & Application Security Awareness Working Working Advanced Advanced
Secure Coding Practices Awareness Working Advanced Advanced Expert
Infrastructure Security
Secrets Management — — Working Advanced Advanced
Cloud Security — — Working Advanced Expert
Authentication & Authorization
JWT / OAuth2 / OIDC Awareness Working Advanced Advanced Expert

AI-Assisted Development

4 skills · 15 requirements
Skill Junior Middle Senior Lead Principal
AI Coding Assistants
GitHub Copilot — — Working Advanced Advanced
Cursor IDE — — Working Advanced —
ChatGPT / Claude Awareness Working Working Advanced Advanced
Prompt Engineering
Prompt Engineering for Code Awareness Working Advanced Advanced Expert

Architecture & System Design

17 skills · 51 requirements
Skill Junior Middle Senior Lead Principal
System Design
System Design Fundamentals — — Working Advanced Advanced
High Load Architecture — — Working Advanced Advanced
Capacity Planning — — Advanced Advanced Expert
Disaster Recovery Design — — Working Advanced Expert
Microservices Patterns
Microservices Decomposition — — Working Advanced Advanced
Saga Pattern — — Advanced Advanced Expert
Architecture Patterns
Hexagonal Architecture — — Advanced Advanced Expert
Clean Architecture — — Working Advanced Advanced
Modular Monolith — — Advanced Advanced Expert
Serverless Architecture Patterns — — Advanced Advanced Expert
Event-Driven Architecture
Event Sourcing — — Advanced Advanced Expert
CQRS — — Working Advanced Expert
Domain-Driven Design
DDD Tactical Patterns — — Advanced Advanced Expert
DDD Strategic Patterns — — Advanced Advanced Expert
Architecture Governance
Architecture Decision Records (ADR) — — Advanced Advanced Expert
Technology Radar Practice — — Advanced Advanced Expert
Technical Debt Management — — Advanced Advanced Expert

Observability & Monitoring

4 skills · 12 requirements
Skill Junior Middle Senior Lead Principal
Logging
Structured Logging — — Working Advanced Advanced
Metrics & Monitoring
Prometheus & Grafana — — Working Advanced Advanced
Distributed Tracing
OpenTelemetry — — Working Advanced Advanced
Alerting & On-Call
SLI / SLO / SLA — — Working Advanced Advanced

Version Control & Collaboration

3 skills · 9 requirements
Skill Junior Middle Senior Lead Principal
Git & Workflows
Git Advanced — — Working Advanced Advanced
Code Review
Code Review — — Working Advanced Advanced
Collaboration Tools
Documentation as Code — — Working Advanced Advanced

Documentation

2 skills · 6 requirements
Skill Junior Middle Senior Lead Principal
Technical Documentation
Architecture Documentation: C4, arc42 — — Advanced Advanced Expert
Docs-as-Code
Diagramming: Mermaid, PlantUML, D2 — — Advanced Advanced Expert
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