Tech Overview

Business Optimization

Business processes strive for three things: efficiency, agility, and meeting customer demands. While efficiency seeks to cut operating and cost of capital, agility seeks to cut the time required to develop products and services, and to respond to customer and market demands. Customer demands focus on customer retention and level of satisfaction.

Project Manager

A Project Manager is instrumental in the planning, scheduling, and management of IT and IT-related projects. Individuals in this role must possess both a high level of technical expertise and the capabilities required for all project managers, including excellent organization, leadership, and communication skills.

Common Titles: Technical Project Manager, SDLC Project Manager, Senior Project Manager, Implementation Project Manager, Infrastructure Project Manager, IT Project Manager, Technical Project Manager

Business Analyst

Business Analysts help guide businesses in improving processes, products, services and software by gathering requirements from the business team and translating these requirements to the software development team. These agile workers straddle the line between IT and the business to help bridge the gap and improve efficiency.

Common Titles: BA, Business Analyst, IT Business Analyst, Technical Business Analyst

Product Owner

The Product Owner is a member of the Agile Team responsible for defining stories and prioritizing the team backlog to streamline the execution of program priorities while maintaining the conceptual and technical integrity of the features or components for the team. They “own” a particular product.

Common Titles: Product Owner, Senior Product Owner, Technical Product Owner, PO

UI/UX

A UX designer ensures a product makes sense to the user by creating a path that logically flows from one step to the next. A UI designer ensures each page visually communicates that path. UX and UI design are two different elements of a single consumer experience. UX refers to the user experience, which focuses on how something works and how people interact with it. UI, or user interface, focuses on the look and layout.

Common Titles: UX/UI Developer, UX Designer, UI Designer, Product Designer, UX Researcher

Software Engineering

Software engineering is a branch of computer science which includes the development and building of computer systems software and applications software. Computer systems software is composed of programs that include computing utilities and operations systems. Applications software consists of user-focused programs that include web browsers, database programs, etc.

Front End

Front-end is the part of the code that is on the front of the application. It is usually visible to the user in the form of an interface inviting the user to interact. The main purpose of the front-end code is to interact with the user, as well as present the data in a well-defined style and matter.

Common titles: Front-End Developer, Web Developer, JavaScript Developer, UI Developer, Application Developer, React Developer

Back End

Back-end is the part of the application that is never visible to the user. It is built with use of server-side languages and databases. In simpler words, front-end code interacts with a user in real time, while back-end code interacts with a server to return user ready results. Anything displayed on the website is because of the query performed on the back end returning data to the front-end.

Common Titles: Back-End Developer, .Net/C# Developer, Java Developer, C++ Developer, Application Developer, PHP Developer, API Developer, Go/GoLang Developer

Full Stack

Full-stack developers are comfortable working with both back-end and front-end technologies. A full-stack developer doesn’t need to master all the areas and technologies needed to work it. The developer just needs to be comfortable working with the technologies associated while delivering at the level expected by the client.

Common Titles: Full- Stack Developer, Application Developer, JavaScript/Node.JS Developer, Web Developer

Mobile

Mobile Developers are responsible for designing, building, and maintaining mobile applications – from high-profile apps like Instagram to the apps that come pre-installed on smartphones, tablets, and increasingly, PCs (e.g., the camera app or the calculator) to fun games are made.

Common Titles: Mobile Developer, Android Developer, iOS Developer,

QA (Quality Assurance)

QA’s monitor every phase of the development process to ensure that the design and software adhere to company standards. Software delays are costly for a company, so it’s vital for releases to meet target dates and stay within budget. A software quality assurance engineer helps meet deadlines by breaking up the development process into attainable testing goals and relaying any issues back to the development and product teams or leaders.

Common Titles: QA, QA Specialist, QA Engineer, Quality Assurance Specialist, Quality Assurance Engineer, SDET

Cloud & Infrastructure

An Infrastructure Engineer test, design, build, and maintain a company’s IT infrastructures (on-prem or cloud), such as a search engine, database, or other platforms. On-premise means that a company keeps all of this IT infrastructure onsite, which is either managed by themselves or a third-party. With the cloud it means that it is housed offsite with someone else responsible for monitoring and maintaining it.

Cloud Engineer

Cloud engineers are responsible for planning, developing and designing cloud-based software and applications. They manage the cloud environment and debugging initiatives throughout development and are also responsible for migrating existing system data to cloud-based applications.

Common Titles: Cloud Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, AWS Engineer, Azure Engineer, Cloud Architect, Cloud Software Engineer, Cloud Systems Engineer

DevOps Engineer

DevOps engineers bridge the gap between developers and IT staff, which involves a lot of development, testing, and deployment technologies for developing automated CI/CD pipelines.

Common Titles: DevOps Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), Build/Release Engineer, Automation Engineer

Network Engineer

Network engineers enable data to pass between computers in a network to aid communication between users. Responsible for setting up, developing and maintaining computer networks within an organization or between organizations.

Common Titles: Network Engineer, Senior Network Engineer, Cisco Engineer

Systems Engineer

Systems engineers implement the network architects’ designs, and solve the complex problems involved in the day-to-day operations of networks. They frequently test system operations, identify security risks, and research new products or processes that will improve system function

Common Titles: Systems Engineer, Windows Engineer, Linux Engineer, IT Systems Engineer

Data Modernization

Data modernization is the movement of data from legacy mainframe databases to modern databases. An enterprise’s ability to compete in the digital age rests on business agility. Cloud, mobile, and big data analytics not only help enable that agility, but also require agility.

Data Engineer

Data engineers are responsible for finding trends in data sets and developing algorithms to help make raw data more useful to the enterprise. Requires a significant set of technical skills, including a deep knowledge of SQL database design and multiple programming languages.

Common Titles: Data Engineer, Data Architect

Data Scientist/Machine Learning

A Data Scientist investigates different data trends to assess the effect on a business. Machine learning enables machines to learn without being directly programmed and utilizes algorithms to analyze data and prepare for potential predictions without human involvement.

Common Titles: Data Scientist, Machine Learning Specialist, Machine Learning Engineer, Senior Data Scientist

Database Developer

A database developer designs, programs, develops and implements database systems. Their goal is to design an efficient database that meets the needs and expectations of its users.

Common Titles: DBA, SQL DBA, Oracle DBA, Database Developer, SQL Database Developer

Business Intelligence/Data Visualization

Business intelligence (BI) leverages software and services to transform data into actionable insights that inform an organization’s strategic and tactical business decisions. BI tools access and analyze data sets and present analytical findings in reports, summaries, dashboards, graphs, charts and maps to provide users with detailed intelligence about the state of the business.

Common Titles: Data Analyst, Data Scientist, Business Intelligence, Data Visualization Engineer, Tableau Engineer

SalesForce

Salesforce CRM is a cloud-based software that helps organizations to effectively streamline their sales and marketing operations. Today, Salesforce is the #1 customer relationship management (CRM) platform in the world. It also offers organizations easy access to web-based software over the internet.

Salesforce Administrator

Salesforce Administrators work with stakeholders to define requirements and to customize the platform. To put it simply: they enable users to get the most out of Salesforce Platform.

Common Titles: Salesforce Admin, Salesforce BA,

Salesforce Developer

A Salesforce developer is a programmer who builds Salesforce applications across various PaaS (Platform as a Service) platforms.

Common Titles: Salesforce Developer

Cyber Security

Cyber security refers to the body of technologies, processes, and practices designed to protect networks, devices, programs, and data from attack, damage, or unauthorized access. Cyber security may also be referred to as information technology security.

Security Engineer

Security engineers oversee security operations and are responsible in developing and supervising data and technology security systems to help prevent breaches, taps, and leaks associated with cybercrime.

Common Titles: Cyber Security Engineer, Cyber Security Specialist, Security Engineer

Penetration Testers/Ethical Hackers

Penetration testers are the so-called “ethical hackers,” or the good guys. Also known as assurance validators, penetration testers are hired by network system owners and web-based application providers to probe for vulnerabilities that hackers with nefarious intent might be able to exploit to gather secure data and intelligence.

Common Titles: Pen Testers, Penetration Testers, White Hat Hacker, Samurai Hacker

Security Analyst

Information security analysts install software, such as firewalls, to protect computer networks. Information security analysts plan and carry out security measures to protect an organization’s computer networks and systems

Common Titles: Security Analyst, Information Security Analyst