Refers to the landscape of applications, environments, hardware, software, and infrastructure, and the services and processes they perform to fulfill the agency’s mission, goals and objectives. Technical Architecture encompasses: Standards for all aspects of the technical architecture, including development and deployment methodologies. Practices of modeling, requirements gathering and re-engineering of applications, environments, hardware, software and infrastructure. Management of business-based service level agreements (SLAs) Impact analyses and governance of technical standards, models, requirements and re-engineering proposals across technology divisions and across business divisions, or enterprise-wide.
Technical architecture refers to the structured process of designing and building software architecture, with focus on interaction with software and hardware developers. Technical Architecture can also refer to the structured process of designing and building IT hardware / infrastructure usually at enterprise level. Issues such as Server Hardware, Network, Storage, Backup, Resilience and Availability are all within the remit of the hardware Technical Architect.