As an architect...

I have been playing the role of a DW Architect for a large financial services organization over the past 6 months. When I reflect back on my duties and responsibilities, one aspect came out very strong that gets missed out in the job description.

"Leaves his Unique Selling Proposition trace in the project"

There are often a lot of other crap that the organizations look for like..Coordination between the business and IT....Owner of data models....Provides strategic direction to the IT team...etc...

Do you think Emperor Shah Jahan would have given a big job description to his architect, Ustad Ahmad Lahauri, when he set out to build the Taj Mahal? He described the Taj Mahal as

Should guilty seek asylum here,
Like one pardoned, he becomes free from sin.
Should a sinner make his way to this mansion,
All his past sins are to be washed away.
The sight of this mansion creates sorrowing sighs;
And the sun and the moon shed tears from their eyes.
In this world this edifice has been made;
To display thereby the creator's glory.

If you read the last line, it stresses the need to display the creator's glory. An architect should leave behind his glory after he is long gone from the project. That should be the true job description. It should be the one thing that the people would still talk about after he has resigned. The rest of the responsibilities are just enablers for the ultimate glory.