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Small-Scale Question Sunday for March 5, 2023

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My workplace (eng team is in the 5-20 people range) has someone with the title of architect - most of his job is just normal feature work (we don't have any software developers whose job isn't primarily writing / testing / deploying software), but he's also the one in charge of having and sharing a coherent vision of what abstractions our system is built out of. So for example, "we're doing domain-driven design, here are some examples of changelists that were good, here's the standard folder structure, here is the auto-formatter config so we can never think about code formatting again" style of stuff.

I don't know what the story is at larger companies though, and I've heard a lot of people speak of architects as if they don't do much, so the situation at my workplace may be atypical.