Difference of terminology I guess, but I worked at a Pharma company and I am talking about the Enterprise Architect, so maybe not the same kind of architect you

Difference of terminology I guess, but I worked at a Pharma company and I am talking about the Enterprise Architect, so maybe not the same kind of architect you are talking about. He and his team made decisions related to tech stack. They never made software design decisions. Over at the Pharma company IT higher ups weren't technical anyway.