> an architect who was fairly new out of uni and did not know how to code, or have any real tech skills. This sounds more like a sales-adjacent role that pitch

> an architect who was fairly new out of uni and did not know how to code, or have any real tech skills. This sounds more like a sales-adjacent role that pitches a company’s tech product lineup to the likes of product managers and other non-technical people at potential clients companies. For these roles, having someone who isn’t too deep into the details of the technology can actually help connect with other non-technical customers. You quickly remove this person from leading meetings and insert someone with tech skills if the other side shows up with actual engineers, though. No actual engineering team is going to have an “architect” fresh out of college who doesn’t code or otherwise understand the tech. Having someone architect a system without understanding it doesn’t make any sense.