Cloud architects must have or develop a vast collection of skills. Surprisingly, this is a role in which transversal skills play a crucial role along with technical skills. Here is a list of skills and qualifications that a cloud architect must have or acquire to excel in this field: Solid overall corporate IT experience: ideally, this means one or more titles in IT, GIS, IT or something similar, with a good understanding of how companies use information technology for a wide range of objectives and applications. Strong technical skills in corporate IT: cloud architect jobs must understand the basic components of IT. These include client systems and applications, networks, infrastructure, data centers, programming languages, web tools and technologies, databases and Big Data and ERP. In fact, cloud architects are generally experts in one or more of these fields or technological disciplines. But their experience aims to create a vision of what is needed and how it could be impleme