I'm currently at a very large company, and architects are, in many lines of business, the only technical folks directly employed by the company. Which means a p

I'm currently at a very large company, and architects are, in many lines of business, the only technical folks directly employed by the company. Which means a product's quality hinges pretty directly on whether your architect is somebody technical who can help solve problems both at the implementation level and before they get to the implementation level (which I certainly try to be, when not triple-booked on meetings trying to keep everything else on the rails) or the Dilbert version. We do exist, I promise. ;) But in my case at least, the Eye of Sauron can only keep so many things in sight at a time...