One curriculum, nine lessons, drafted onto a single sheet: six architecture disciplines — Software, System, Platform, Solution, Security, and Data — plus governance, five end-to-end capstones, and a published portfolio. For engineers ready to move from building systems to designing them.
Most bootcamps train you for one job title. This one drafts all six architecture disciplines onto a single curriculum — study the whole stack, or go deep on the one role you're targeting.
Choose and defend architectural styles, apply DDD and resilience patterns, and document decisions the way senior reviewers expect.
Design distributed systems for high availability — load balancing, service discovery, and messaging at scale.
Build the CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and observability foundations every other team builds on top of.
Produce HLD/LLD documentation, evaluate technology options, and plan enterprise integration and migration.
Model threats, design zero-trust systems, and build the control matrices compliance teams sign off on.
Design enterprise data platforms, governance models, and streaming and LLM/RAG architectures.
This isn't a certification cram. It's built around the belief that architects are hired for decisions and deliverables — not definitions.
Each discipline gets its own colour-coded line through the curriculum — the same convention engineers use to separate electrical, structural, and plumbing on a real drawing set.
Seven sections per chapter, ~6–8 hours of study time total — a cross-section that repeats across all 137 chapters of Lessons 1–7. (Lesson 8's five capstones and Lesson 9's fifteen portfolio modules follow their own dedicated formats — see below.)
The last lesson turns 137 chapters of decisions into 50+ professional deliverables — including a GitHub portfolio and a recorded presentation.
Six roles, one curriculum. Figures are gross annual base salary for Senior-level architects (6+ years, platform or enterprise scope) in each of the six disciplines this bootcamp trains toward. Select a country.
Owns architectural style decisions, DDD boundaries, and resilience patterns across product lines. Frankfurt and Berlin fintech/e-commerce pay toward the upper band.
Designs distributed systems for scale — load balancing, service discovery, messaging. High demand from German automotive and logistics platforms.
Owns the CI/CD, IaC, and observability foundations every product team builds on. Platform roles command a premium as internal-developer-platform adoption grows.
Produces HLD/LLD documentation and owns enterprise integration and migration planning — a title in constant demand at German Mittelstand enterprises modernizing legacy estates.
Zero-trust design and control-matrix ownership command the highest premium of the six roles — EU regulatory pressure (NIS2, DORA) is accelerating demand sharply.
Designs enterprise data platforms, governance models, and increasingly streaming and LLM/RAG architectures — the fastest-growing sub-specialty of the six.
Sources: Glassdoor Germany Architect roles (2026), ERI SalaryExpert Germany (Solution/Enterprise/Security Architect, 2026), Robert Half Technology Salary Guide Germany (2026), Levels.fyi Germany (Staff/Principal architecture titles).
Amsterdam and Eindhoven scale-ups pay toward the top of this band; the 30% ruling meaningfully improves net take-home for relocating architects.
Dutch banks and logistics platforms (ASML, Booking, bol.com) are consistent hirers of distributed-systems architects at this level.
Highest-paid of the six roles in NL — internal platform teams at Adyen-scale companies compete aggressively for this title.
A long-established title in Dutch enterprise IT — consulting firms and insurers pay well for HLD/LLD and integration expertise.
EU-wide NIS2/DORA compliance work concentrates in Amsterdam's financial-services and EU-institution-adjacent employers, pushing this role to the top of the range.
Strong demand from Dutch banks and ad-tech companies building governed data platforms and early LLM/RAG architectures.
Sources: ERI SalaryExpert Netherlands (Solution/Enterprise/Security Architect, 2026), Glassdoor Netherlands Architect roles (2026), DigitalDefynd EU tech-architecture salaries (2026), Robert Half Technology Salary Guide Netherlands (2026).
Brussels and Antwerp employers frequently offset Belgium's higher tax burden with company cars, meal vouchers, and group insurance.
KBC, Belfius, and telco operators are steady hirers of distributed-systems architecture skill at this level.
Many senior Belgian architects operate as B2B contractors to manage the tax burden, which lifts effective day-rate compensation above the gross figures shown.
EU-institution proximity in Brussels sustains steady demand for enterprise integration and migration expertise in the public and semi-public sector.
EU institutions and regulated pharma/banking employers in Brussels pay a clear premium for zero-trust and compliance-architecture expertise.
Pharma (UCB, J&J EU) and banking employers drive demand for governed data-platform and RAG architecture skill in Belgium.
Sources: ERI SalaryExpert Belgium (2026), Glassdoor Belgium Architect roles (2026), Robert Half Technology Salary Guide Belgium (2026). Belgium-specific architect data is limited — figures interpolated from EU-wide benchmarks with Belgian market and tax-context adjustment applied.
Self-paced doesn't mean unsupported. Mentor Bob is an AI study assistant built into every section of the bootcamp — it has already read whatever chapter you're on, so you can ask it to unpack a trade-off or walk through a decision the moment you get stuck.
INCLUDED FREE — NOT AN UPSELL
ATAM vs a simple weighted matrix — when would I actually reach for the heavier one?
ATAM earns its cost when stakeholders disagree on priorities and the decision is hard to reverse — otherwise the matrix is faster and just as defensible. Want a worked example from a regulated-industry migration?