  The job of software architect is considered very crucial in the life cycle of
the software development because software architecture has a pivotal role in
the success and failure of the software project in terms of cost and quality.
People have different personality traits, and the way they perceive, plan and
execute any assigned task is influenced by it. These personality traits are
characterized by soft skills. Most of the time, software development is a team
work involving several people executing different tasks. The success and
failure stories of software projects revealed the human factor as one of the
critical importance. In this work we are presenting an exploratory study about
the soft skills requirements for a software architects job. We analyzed 124
advertised jobs in the title of software architect and explore the soft skills
requirements. The results of this investigation help in understanding software
skills requirement set for a job of software architect and presents the current
status of their use in job advertisements.
