SAP Technical architect

Hi,
I am ABAP developer around 4 years of experience, and interested to move towards being a SAP technical architect. How can I go about this transition. while reading through few blogs came across a lot of scattered information about some SAP Certification course followed by the exam for being a technical architect. Got a bit confused. Please advise.
Appreciate your thoughts...
Thanks
VG
Moderator Message: Thread moved from the SOA Forum to the Career Center according to relevance
Edited by: Trevor Naidoo on Aug 2, 2011 11:49 AM

Hi,
Before becoming a SAP technical architect, you need several years (at least 5 ) as a SAP basis administrator doing projects like installations, upgrades, hardware migrations, lots of interfaces etc....
So try first to become a SAP admin in a project team, not a production team.
Regards,
Olivier

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