Here's how you can optimize job satisfaction for system architects by achieving work-life balance.

Boundaries is a must between your job and your passion. It is important to sacrify sometimes your private sphere and engage more into System Architecture related landacape. As we know the closest area called SRE jobs. The direction always have to be flexible, as a system does not know about your free time, but it may require you to step in any time. On the other hand this means the timeframes are chatoic, but you have the power for planning, which can gives you the freedom even in daylight.

Yes there is a way to create work-life balance in your life. In this exact siutaion some points which can help you achieve this - Prediction of Spikes - Event Monitoring - Automate Remediations based on best practices - Use ITIL strategy and focus on Change Management - Planning your tasks - Communicate the stakeholders transparently - Involve your team mates to know about what you are doing if you have to step away capable to handover your task - Always share information, expertise and collect articles in workspace helps you being effective

The answer always sphered into the question. Flexible worktime not the same as fixed worktime. We all should know the difference. The important part here: The Job msut be done. It does not matter when you do, only focus on the dead times of delivery. For that need a strong Change Management, Risk, Disaster controll planning knowledge, to be familiar with what can you expect. Your work always saying a “Hi” back after work hours if you have not validated ehat have you done. So flexibility means here it can be anytime which suits you. But it have the price sometimes sacrify your night, or some hours after workhours, in change you may have things done between ( family, gym, offical stuff ) which known fixed not flexible.

I really recognize that your wellbeing, your worklife balance are in relation with your life background. If you are not satisified with yourself and does have the inner peace you will be always stressed. If you are alone which is an often case you need to build or be part of a community, to get mental support. You need to fill your soul with happiness. Because world and job pulls out from you. So find the things makes you happy, and encourage that does not listen music much when you are stressed because it is amplifies the feelings. Make a clean environment, without sounds! just be! relax. When you fought your demons you are ready for challenges. If you can not handle alone invite help and fight them together.

Continous learning is the pillar of the whole concept. It never going to have a step back, and you should definietly know that. New technologies, new tools always come and go. However the strategy works when leadership brings a decision to use new tools you are not familiar with. Some leaders than hire new people as well for that. But the true leaders prepare his team for changes. Demand educations. Practice together to get hands on. Where you are valued not your skilss is important. Information is power. And you have the power to have the information based on learning. I suggest do a placeholder for educations, learning weekly at least 4 hours! You will be success! You can do that in worktime, it is paid, win-win.