No, I do not think so. The software (but not the solution/enterprise) architect is a technology expert. For a solution architect it is less important to know al

No, I do not think so. The software (but not the solution/enterprise) architect is a technology expert. For a solution architect it is less important to know all details of a technology but more about understanding the technology landscape. Software Architects are best embedded with the teams (basically your tech leads) but Solution Architects have to consider things which are beyond the understanding of the team (and then carry that into the teams). In my own experience as an architect, it is the other way around. I can invest in new technology knowledge while we keep our dev teams at 100% workload. When they idle the company practically loose money and cannot deliver to the market (and I know that this is stupid for an individual). This usually results in a situation, that if a team comes with a tech solution, the architect team already has a good rationale about it.