Architects have more architectural style in their life rather than Software

As a architect when first comes to mind is technology stack. Yes obvious the kind of knowledge having is very important. Do need certificate for the designation? not really. In fact any profile does need certificate if you proved that you are eligible to that profile, certificates are for beginner who does not know the tool or technology knowledge, at that point of time need to certify somebody that this candidate is eligible to handle the task.

Architecture of software keeps on changing the day by day like java, initially it was system language later it evolved to application language, after enhanced with functional programming now it is modular language, architect of any software should have very through info about the industry what's going on around the system. Among them system architect expectation performance is very high knowing the system functioning is very sophisticated job. One should look into deep understanding of the hardware system operation procedure go through the lot of documentation, reference materials before get into the deep dive for designing but as Application architect comes to picture is some cool thing as compared to previous notably performance, availability is main issue in the enterprise architect.

“Software architects build their own hardware” as by computer scientist.