The search team uses the completed brief to separate adjacent familiarity from work the candidate owned. Each interviewer should use the same scenario, record the evidence provided, and score the answer against the responsibilities agreed during intake.
Enterprise Architect: Role-specific scope
Screened for enterprise capability models, application and data architecture, integration boundaries, technology standards, roadmaps, governance, and investment decisions, with the boundary set by the employer's systems, delivery stage, and operating model.
Interview prompt: Ask for one decision involving Capability Mapping, Application Portfolio, Integration Architecture. Record the constraint, what the candidate owned, and the evidence used to evaluate the result.
Brief alignment: Define the systems, delivery stage, operating boundary, and ownership expected from the Enterprise Architect
Business Architect: Ownership checkpoints
Screened for enterprise capability models, application and data architecture, integration boundaries, technology standards, roadmaps, governance, and investment decisions, with the boundary set by the employer's systems, delivery stage, and operating model.
Interview prompt: Ask for one decision involving enterprise capability models, application and data architecture, integration boundaries. Record the constraint, what the candidate owned, and the evidence used to evaluate the result.
Brief alignment: Screen candidates for evidence of enterprise capability models, application and data architecture, integration boundaries, technology standards, roadmaps, governance, and investment decisions
Application Architect: Adjacent role boundaries
Screened for enterprise capability models, application and data architecture, integration boundaries, technology standards, roadmaps, governance, and investment decisions, with the boundary set by the employer's systems, delivery stage, and operating model.
Interview prompt: Ask for one decision involving Enterprise Architect, Business Architect, Application Architect. Record the constraint, what the candidate owned, and the evidence used to evaluate the result.
Brief alignment: Separate direct delivery experience from adjacent product, project, or consulting exposure