Can a Tech Architect acts as a Product Owner?

Do they have the product knowledge, time and the communication skills required to serve well as the product owner?

A clarification please: Are there multiple Scrum Teams with a single Architect as the Product Owner or is there a single Scrum Team with multiple Architects as a single Product Owner?

The Product Owner is one person, not a committee. The Product Owner may represent the desires of a committee in the Product Backlog

It does not matter what job title the Product Owner has. The important thing is that the individual can fulfill the duties of the Product Owner role.

It smells fishy to me:)

No more than a construction architect can act as a building marketing person. Ideally they are different people since they require different skills and should focus on different things.
When the same person wear 2 or more hats it can become a "duck": it can walk, swim and fly, but it can't do any of these things particularly well... :-)

Yes Ranjith, They do the enough experience on the same domain. But i was thinking how feasible it is to have a product owner from a contractor who will not see the product as his own then a product owner as an FTE from the client works.

Hi Alan,

Thanks for the Reply.

Are there multiple Scrum Teams with a single Architect as the Product Owner or is there a single Scrum Team with multiple Architects as a single Product Owner?
--> There is a single scrum team with a single scrum master but around 5-6 Architects acting as a Product Owner. Each one of them contributes on the backlog on their module/area/expertise.

Thanks,
Rammohan B.

Rammohan,

As Alan pointed out, the Scrum Guide explicitly states that the Product Owner is an individual, not a committee. Therefore, the answer is no.

In addition, it is highly undesirable to ask individuals to fulfill multiple roles in Scrum, as Michael stated.