Certification or Licensing
Iasa Global offers the certified IT architect credential at four experience levels (foundation, associate, specialist, and professional) to those who complete educational requirements and pass an examination. Visit https://iasaglobal.org/Public/Learn/Training_and_Certifications.aspx for more information.
Many tech companies—such as Microsoft, IBM, Amazon Web Services, HP, and Cisco—provide certification credentials for solutions architects that are tied to their specific products or services.
Some architects earn project management–related credentials. The most-popular credential, project management professional, is offered by the Project Management Institute. According to the institute, those who hold the project management professional credential earn 20 percent more than their non-certified peers. Here are a few other popular certification credentials for project managers:
- Associate in project management, professional in project management, certified project director (offered by the Global Association for Quality Management)
- Master project manager (American Academy of Project Management)
- Project management in information technology security (EC-Council)
- Project+ (CompTIA)
- Agile Coaches or Trainers
- Artificial Intelligence Specialists
- Augmented Reality Developers
- Automation Engineers
- Back-End Developers
- Big Data Developers
- Biometrics Systems Specialists
- Blockchain Developers
- Business Continuity Planners
- Chief Information Officers
- Chief Information Security Officers
- Clinical Data Managers
- Cloud Engineers
- Computer and Office Machine Service Technicians
- Computer Network Administrators
- Computer Programmers
- Computer Support Service Owners
- Computer Support Specialists
- Computer Systems Programmer/Analysts
- Computer Trainers
- Cryptocurrency Specialists
- Cryptographic Technicians
- Customer Success Managers
- Cybersecurity Architects
- Data Processing Technicians
- Data Scientists
- Data Warehousing Specialists
- Database Specialists
- Deepfake Professionals
- Digital Agents
- Digital Workplace Experience Engineers
- Directors of Security
- Document Management Specialists
- Electrical Engineering Technologists
- Electrical Engineers
- Electronics Engineering Technicians
- Electronics Engineers
- Electronics Service Technicians
- Embedded Systems Engineers
- Enterprise Architects
- ETL Developers
- Fiber Optics Technicians
- Full Stack Developers/Engineers
- Futurists
- Geospatial Analytics Specialists
- Graphic Designers
- Graphics Programmers
- Hardware Engineers
- Health Informaticists
- Help Desk Representatives
- Information Assurance Analysts
- Information Security Analysts
- Information Technology Consultants
- Information Technology Infrastructure Engineers
- Information Technology Project Managers
- Information Technology Security Consultants
- Internet Consultants
- Internet of Things Developers
- Internet Quality Assurance Specialists
- Internet Security Specialists
- Internet Transaction Specialists
- JavaScript Developers
- Machine Learning Engineers
- Mathematicians
- Microelectronics Technicians
- Model View Controller Developers
- Network Operations Center Engineers
- Network Operations Center Technicians
- Online Gambling Specialists
- Personal Privacy Advisors
- Product Owners
- Project Managers
- Salesforce Developers
- Scrum Masters
- Security Consultants
- Semiconductor Technicians
- Site Reliability Engineers
- Software Application Developers
- Software Designers
- Software Engineers
- Software Quality Assurance Testers
- Systems Setup Specialists
- Technical Support Specialists
- Technical Writers and Editors
- Technology Ethicists
- Wireless Service Technicians