It's not something you wash your hands of and walk away from, having handed it over to the dev team Unfortunately that is the reality of the vast majority of E

It's not something you wash your hands of and walk away from, having handed it over to the dev team Unfortunately that is the reality of the vast majority of Enterprise Architects I have ever worked with, writing massive tomes completely disconnected from the actual systems. The could all be fired tomorrow and no one would even notice (in fact one company I worked for did exactly that after too many complaints about them from the devs! And since they sat in their own cordoned off section, really no one did notice until the meeting invites suddenly stopped!). The only architecture that matters is a living document; for example the CloudFormation or Terraform that actually generates it for real.