In most cases it is the company that decides on the title they want to call their personnel.
DBAs should be architecting solutions on a constant basis imho.
I have also found that many architects (by title) don't know any better about database design, or data access than a good senior dba would know. I don't consider an architect to be more senior.
Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
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