Platform engineers discover aging ETL jobs, undocumented schemas, and brittle overnight feeds, but the roadmap only lists new cloud projects. What should architecture leadership add?

Data-platform technical debt—fragile pipelines, opaque schemas, unsupported runtimes—competes with new capability delivery for scarce capacity. Treating it as first-class architecture management means inventorying items, assessing risk and cost of delay, and sequencing remediation alongside modernization. Roadmaps that only showcase new platforms systematically underfund reliability and increase outage and rework risk.