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p-and-Coming Tech Jobs
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With big data, mobile computing, social media, and cloud computing all shaping the future of IT, some new and intriguing job titles are beginning to emerge. Companies are creating titles like "cloud transformation officer" and "chief social media strategist" to reflect the changing priorities of their organizations. If current trends prevail, your career could even include a stint as a data scientist, an augmented reality specialist, or a chief agile officer. With that in mind, the article summarizes a handful of positions you can expect to see on the radars of IT hiring managers, along with details on what you'll need to land one of them.
As companies move to an IT environment where systems reside in the cloud, they're hiring professionals to oversee the entire strategy. Different roles — director of cloud transformation, vice president of virtualization, or cloud transformation officer — are responsible for overseeing all the moving parts required to migrate to the cloud. Companies of every size and stripe are implementing ever more ambitious strategies involving social media, so it's only logical that they need technologists who can make the most of their investments. Some companies are hiring people who understand the marketing value of social media as well as its technical complexities. Organizations are putting a new crossbreed of talent into jobs with titles like chief social media strategist, new media coordinator, and manager of social media.
Big data is on the agenda of nearly every future-focused operation as they continue to drown in the amount of data that comes in. Enterprises need a new breed of worker who understands how to collect, interpret, and analyze vast amounts of data in a way that's truly useful for making business decisions. Companies building apps that are designed to enhance how people view the world around them need technologists who can deliver that experience. Companies are increasingly working to deliver software that enables people to view a landscape, a street, or a mall, for example, through the lens of a smartphone or tablet and get information about the things they see in front of them. Other titles of the future include: health informatics expert, machine-to-machine communications enabler, and outsourcing/offshoring manager.
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