Where there’s a architecture position open now… Despite being told that it’d be a thing to help “modernize us”, what exactly do other people - both in and out

Where there’s a architecture position open now… Despite being told that it’d be a thing to help “modernize us”, what exactly do other people - both in and out of the IT world - actually thing an “architect” does? In deep time I might have equated it with something like “systems analyst” before that title was more concrete; someone who understood how things went together. Just never as a thing in a divorced-from-the-doing like I see now, from people who have even, ostensibly, done some development, or at least coding, yet seem to lack a basic grasp on 1st and 2nd year IT concepts (DB normalization?), or, perhaps, brush aside whatever they might know in favor of letting the DB “architect” (modeler) take that fall. it’s a jungle out there