A Rule Architect helps the team to:

• work together in an agile fashion,
• jointly own the solution, and to
• interface well with other parts of the organisation.

The Rule Architect defines the structure and organisation of the rule-based system. Outside of the standard activities, skills, roles and responsibilities of a software architect, his role extends to:

• Selecting the technology to ensure performance of the rule execution and usability of the BRMS platform
• Designing the infrastructure necessary for editing rules, and producing one or several Rule Sets
• Building the structure of rule projects, the dependencies on the executable domain object model.
• Defining the decision services part of a SOA. Those services use Rule Sets.
• Ensuring that the overall deployment organization of the rules makes sense from an application segmentation perspective
• Ensuring optimization of rule execution
• Establishing traceability for rules within the technical architecture
• Ensuring rule reuse
• Designing the structure of the rule repository (defining the required metadata customizations and possibly implementing the structure)
• Developing the processes around repository management, rule life-cycle, rule set life-cycle, rule governance
• Coordinating with application developers on system design, implementation and testing
• Acting as a liaison between business and IT