There are 4 named types of Enterprise Architects in the source. 1. **Enterprise Architects** - the most senior, with broad scope & broad IT expertise. They are the most senior of the architects and have the broadest scope. 2. **Business Area Architects** - these have narrow scope with broad expertise. They are limited in their view to a particular section of the business, but handle the majority of the architecture work in that section. 3. **Domain Architects** - these are the opposite of business area architects, broad scope with narrower expertise. They would handle of of the [[Enterprise Architectural Layers]] for the whole business. 4. **Solution Architects** - these are the most junior of the architects, with narrower scope and narrower expertise. They work in the [[EA Outlines]] and [[EA Designs]] space, whereas all the others work in the "CSVL" part of the [[CSVLOD]] model. Domain and Business Architects are an example of the [[Horizontal and Vertical Approaches|broad versus deep]] [[pattern]]. **** # More ## Source - [[The Practice of Enterprise Architecture]] ## Related