Post by Vintage - Architecture On Demand

Contract Architects have seen this pattern before. ✍ A company hires for a 6-month contract. 📋 The interview process focuses on whether the architect is capable of doing the job. The technical questions are covered, contracts are signed, and everyone is excited for the start date. Then the picture starts to change. The environment they're walking into looks nothing like the one described during the interview process. Stakeholders have already burned through multiple consultancies with little to show for it. Teams are fatigued by constant change. Trust is low. 📉 The biggest challenge isn't architecture. It's change management. The technical problems are often solvable. The real challenge is winning over stakeholders, rebuilding trust and bringing people on the journey when previous transformation efforts have failed. So why are architecture interviews still so heavily focused on technical capability? For a seasoned contractor, that's usually the easy part. This week, I spoke to a Contract Architect who was three weeks into a new engagement. The CTO had already missed multiple meetings and effectively ghosted him. 👻 🏦 Perhaps we should spend less time assessing architecture frameworks and more time assessing a candidate's ability to navigate organisational change, stakeholder resistance and difficult environments. 💼 #EnterpriseArchitecture #EnterpriseArchitect #Contractor #ContractArchitect #ChangeManagement #DigitalTransformation #BusinessTransformation #StakeholderManagement #ArchitectureLeadership #TransformationLeadership #BusinessArchitecture #SolutionArchitecture #TechnologyLeadership #Leadership #ArchitectureCommunity #ITLeadership #Transformation #Consulting #ChangeLeadership #OrganisationalChange