When Adams started at Deutsche Bank in 2015 he was asked to look at the bank’s architecture. “I was like, ‘I don't know what that is.’ We didn't really have that sort of practice at Goldman Sachs,” he says to The Stack.

From working at Citi and JP Morgan, he tells the group, he learned large enterprises need a simple definition of architecture that can be translated across various levels of the business: “At Goldman's, I really felt the business was very tech-savvy. (...) You'll have a tech and a business head co-manage a group.”

“I took that for granted for 15 years. Then I went to Deutsche Bank and it was very different. The senior levels of business leaders didn't really understand the technology aspects and how it could improve their business lines,” he says.

Adams says simplifying his technological vision to communicate it to business executives was essential.

“I realized that there was a translation layer that was necessary if you were gonna be a senior and successful technology leader, in order to explain it in a language that business or board members could understand.”

Adams’s book outlines the compact architectural framework he designed, spanning five “disciplines”: business, application, information, technology and security, and three “levels” of architecture, enterprise, solutions and software.

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