Learn about the types of people who become enterprise architects. This page goes into detail about the employment, gender, and ethnic ratios of the workplace.
Gender Mix By Career Interest, 2024
This graph shows the distribution of females and males that are interested in becoming an enterprise architect. Four or five star ratings on CareerExplorer indicate interest.
More men than women are interested in becoming enterprise architects at a ratio of 2.69 to 1.
Actual Gender Mix, 2024
14% of enterprise architects are female and 86% are male.
Gender Bias, 2024
This is one of the most compelling statistics we collect. Gender bias shows the difference between gender interest in being an enterprise architect and the actual gender mix of people in the career.
If there is a significant difference, then it means there is a gender imbalance between those interested in becoming an enterprise architect and those who end up becoming one.
In this case there are more women interested in becoming an enterprise architect than those actually working as one. It is hard to pinpoint the exact reasons why, but there are likely various forces at play, from changing interests over time to societal norms and biases.
Ethnic Mix, 2019
The largest ethnic group of enterprise architects are White, making up 50% of the population. The next highest segments are East Asian and Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish, making up 23% and 9% respectively.