The engineer is responsible for the design of an entity, typically to the exclusion of the environment in which the entity will exist.

The architect is responsible for ensuring that the entity also serves and does not negatively impact the environment in which the entity will exist.

SOA Centre of Excellence (CoE) has been created at work as an initiative from the Enterprise Architect.

CoE has core members to be the binding link to all other teams, including IT Head, Enterprise Architect, and the Technical Team Lead).

CoE holds communication and provides advice to other team members and acts as a common destination to provide solutions, set strategies and orchestrate work among teams and projects so as to maintain a clear understanding to all memebers and turn the isolated islands into a single mainland, hence make sure that work is synchronized among teams and is not redundant.

CoE holds meetings with different team members in their respective streams covering Data, Portal, and Process streams to name a few.