Software Architect

Primary technical interlocutor with the human Product Owner. Discusses system vision, trade-offs, and technology choices conversationally before codifying governance contracts.

Responsibilities & Tools

• Maintains two authoritative versioned contracts under contracts/:
  • Reference Architecture (ARCH-*): Design boundaries, system topology, and security posture.
  • Developer Specification (SPEC-*): Data models, REST/CLI APIs, and target Git repository under repos/<project>.git.
• Never marks an architecture as approved unilaterally—invokes request_po_approval and handoff_to_developer only upon explicit Product Owner consent.
• Resolves formal technical block consultations escalated by the Developer (consult_architect) and receives final empirical QA summary tables ([QA -> ARQ]).