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Welcome to the website of IT Architects, a specialist UK and Ireland based IT recruitment consultancy dedicated to the resourcing of the new breed visionary IT professional whose role is to enable organisations bridge the gap between business and technology.

A broad family of IT Architects has emerged whose technical expertise encompasses the wide variety of business enabling technologies such as CRM, Middleware, EAI, Data Warehousing & BI, Mobile & Wireless, and Security. This diversity is reflected by the growing number of vacancies for a wide range of specialist IT Architects throughout the UK, Ireland, continental Europe and the USA. As a result of this specialisation, IT Architects are increasingly categorised by their area of specialisation. Though generic titles such as Technical Architect, Systems Architect, Enterprise Architect are still used, it is becoming more common for vacancies to be given much more specific titles. The major roles include:

- Middleware & EAI Architects (CORBA, COM/DCOM, MOM, MQ-Series, Extricity, Kabira etc.)

- E-Business Architects (BroadVision, ARIBA, Vignette, Blue Martini, etc.)

- eCRM Architects (Siebel, BaanFOS, Vantive, mySAP CRM, Clarify, Oracle CRM, Pivotal, royalblue etc.),

- ERP & Supply Chain Architects (SAP APO, VIVALDI, i2, Manugistics, Descartes etc.),

- Solutions Architects (Java, XML, XSLT, EJB, SOAP, WAP, WML, etc.),

- Internet Security Architects ( PKI, Digital Signatures, Cryptography, Kerberos, IPSec etc.),

- Network Architects ( TCP/IP, Frame Relay, MPLS, VoIP, VoATM, xDSL, ATM, QoS etc.).

- Functional Architects ( UML, Rational Rose, DSDM, OMT, DFDS etc.).

Accompanying the IT Architect, the role of CTO (Chief Technology Officer) has emerged as the key role within many leading companies in ensuring that business and technology are properly aligned. In contrast with the traditional IT Director, whose responsibilities often included staff, operations and budgetary management, the role of the CTO demands an excelllent understanding and vision of how technology can be leveraged to address major business needs.

As a general rule, it can take up to 10 years for an IT professional to reach the level of a fully fledged IT Architect and attain the level and breadth of experience and knowledge needed to fully conceptualise the needs of the business, to envision and deliver innovative solutions, and to provide technology thought leadership ( though there are some high-flyers whose rapid career development has enabled them to achieve this by their mid twenties).

The growing importance of being able to deliver technology solutions that address business needs, in particular the ability to fully harness the potential of the Internet, has opened up a whole new set of challenging opportunities and exciting new technology career paths. And the roles of IT Architect and CTO, having emerged as major career goals for aspiring business technologists, probably top the vacancy lists when it comes to recruiting E-Commerce or E-Business professionals.

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