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by DoingIsLearning 1289 days ago
> My company doesn't have a "Software Architect" job title. Instead the closest thing is "Staff+ Engineer"

Not off-topic at all, this is aligned with what I see. In older or 'regulated industry' companies the role and career path of Architect still exists. But more and more I just see senior roles that are flavours of Principal/Staff/Fellow and they still have normal Engineering duties but then in early greenfield stages of projects act as Architects, just not as a full time role.

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Training sphere also reflects this trend and nowadays is less common to find content focused on "Software Architecture" roles. It seems more like a thing from the past. Agile, horizontal teams and even distributed systems are motivating that specific role to disapear