If you are capable to hold the overview for an organisation, and know the best interest of the organisation, you can become and IT Architect, if you can also communicate your ideas.
Ofcourse this can come with great difficulty, and implementation of (some) of the ideas you might never see happening.
I agree that upper management plays a crucial role, they have to be rightly informed, especialy if they hold the wrong intuitions.
I also hold the believe that this is the case in smaller organisations and/or IT trajects, where there is no dedicated architect, or team of architects.
Architecture is about envisioning the future and shaping how it looks and works, ofcourse you should take the role, if this is what you want.
(No job is only easy and only fun, but it can be greatly rewarding at times, but as with most things, best do it for the doing of it ;)
Ofcourse this can come with great difficulty, and implementation of (some) of the ideas you might never see happening.
I agree that upper management plays a crucial role, they have to be rightly informed, especialy if they hold the wrong intuitions.
I also hold the believe that this is the case in smaller organisations and/or IT trajects, where there is no dedicated architect, or team of architects.
Architecture is about envisioning the future and shaping how it looks and works, ofcourse you should take the role, if this is what you want.
(No job is only easy and only fun, but it can be greatly rewarding at times, but as with most things, best do it for the doing of it ;)