As a recently appointed architect myself: - Learn to get good at Lucid Charts, or Draw.io, something like that if you haven't already. You're about to get aske

As a recently appointed architect myself: - Learn to get good at Lucid Charts, or Draw.io, something like that if you haven't already. You're about to get asked for a lot of diagrams... - Don't expect to change everything over night, expect a lot of frustration. You'll suggest changes, design things, then you'll realise people didn't listen or understand. What you actually end up with, will likely end up looking completely different, it's easy to get demotivated by this. I'm still working on this myself, but I guess try to be empathetic. What might be obvious to you, might be more obscure to engineers, especially junior engineers. Focus on trying to inculcate good practices and approaches into everyone, try to get on the same page. If you design something, or request something's done a certain way, and people don't quite understand it, they'll likely fall back to what they know already. Just be patient, accept things won't always go the way you planned it and work on knowledge sharing where needed most. - Come up with a common dictionary of shared terms and concepts within the business, it will be your role to act as a mediator at times, between engineers and the business. Find a common tongue. - Make sure you have the fundamentals down, it's easy to get moved into an architect role because you demonstrate certain qualities, but this means you might be missing some of the basic architect stuff. I've been in my role nearly a year and I still feel like an engineer who can do some architect stuff at times. So just keep reading. - Practice spotting abstractions and opportunities. Try to look for ways in which your code can enable more opportunities further down the line, and safeguard those. All code has untold, unknown potential, try to get engineers thinking along those lines. - Be an enabler - try to find improvements that speed up future changes. These have been the key things for me so far! Good luck!