I have some how managed to put my self in a Software Architect role with a salary of a Junior developer, My team, who are even more junior as a swath of fresh grads are looking up to me to design this project. I am doubting my abilities and am worried I am going to under deliver, how am I ever going to learn this. Stressed.

Welcome to the fucking club.

Not worth your health imo, I would get out unless you want the experience

Read head first design patterns, then read DDD by Eric Evans. Might help you just about get by.

If you are in an architect role while getting a junior salary, i really don't know how you possibly could under-deliver apart from playing games and watching porn instead of working...

Also don't worry about making errors. Just admit and fix em as you find em.

And yes: Experiment with design patterns until you git gud -f origin master.

This book is good as universal software architect plan

Btw, the book above should be probably your first one.

Design patterns is just one of its later chapters of the implementation step.

If I get what is DDD, it is a mutant mix of analysis stage with self documenting your model at the code level at the right level of abstractions.

My book offers explaining all existing planning analysis design implementation stages of the development pipeline
It should be learnt first by software architect I think.

Second or third chapter starts with writing use case scenarios from user point of view and then spirals them into how it would look in data flow interactions, database models, architecture, interface design and only then lowers to code level planning.

Never ask for a promotion. Always ask for a raise.

@Crost I see ddd I think data display debugger. Amazing how these commands stick with you.

Solid advice though