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Enterprise Architect interview questions

13 questions enterprise architects get asked, grouped by type. Under each one are the skills it is really testing, so you can pick a story from your own work that shows them.

Technical

  1. How do you define a target-state architecture for an organization with many overlapping systems?
    Tests: enterprise architecture, roadmapping
  2. How do you decide which technology standards to set across the organization, and which to leave to individual teams?
    Tests: governance, enterprise architecture
  3. How do you assess technical debt across a portfolio of systems and turn that into a plan leadership will fund?
    Tests: enterprise architecture, communication
  4. Walk me through how you map business capabilities to the systems that support them.
    Tests: enterprise architecture, analysis

Situational

  1. Two business units with different technology stacks need to be brought under one architecture after a reorganization. How do you approach it?
    Tests: enterprise architecture, change management
  2. An architecture change you believe is necessary has no executive sponsor yet. How do you build support for it?
    Tests: communication, stakeholder management
  3. Two teams have roadmaps that assume different future architectures. How do you reconcile them?
    Tests: enterprise architecture, conflict resolution
  4. A project team wants to bypass the architecture review process to hit a deadline. How do you respond?
    Tests: governance, judgment

Behavioral

  1. Tell me about a time you disagreed with a coworker and how you handled it.
    Tests: conflict resolution, communication
  2. Describe a project or task that did not go well and what you did about it.
    Tests: ownership, reflection
  3. Give an example of persuading someone to adopt an idea they initially resisted.
    Tests: influence, communication
  4. Walk me through how you decided what to work on when you had more requests than time.
    Tests: prioritisation, judgment
  5. Tell me about a time you had to learn something new quickly to get a job done.
    Tests: learning agility, ownership
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Enterprise Architect interview questions — Gurus Consulting