Occupation Atlaschief technology officer
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/7b1b5da8-573a-49bb-a38e-68725a949f4f
chief technology officer
Chief technology officers contribute to a company's technical vision and lead all aspects of technology development, according to its strategic direction and growth objectives. They match technology with business needs.
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Job Zone
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- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
Zone 4: Considerable Preparation Needed
Considerable preparation. Usually a bachelor's degree plus several years of work-related experience, knowledge, or training.
Job Zone is O*NET's rating of how much education, experience and training an occupation typically needs — a property of the work, not of anyone doing it.
Occupational interest profile
CEIConventional · Enterprising · Investigative — the three strongest interests, in order
- C Conventional5.94
- E Enterprising5.09
- I Investigative4.49
- R Realistic2.68
- S Social2.35
- A Artistic1.47
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Computer and Information Systems Managers (11-3021.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its close O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (22)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- ICT project management
- ICT project management methodologies
- administer ICT system
- analyse ICT system
- attack vectors
- carry out strategic research
- coordinate technological activities
- decision support systems
- define technology strategy
- ensure adherence to organisational ICT standards
- establish an ICT customer support process
- implement ICT coding conventions
- implement corporate governance
- industrial research and development
- lead technology development of an organisation
- maintain plan for continuity of operations
- manage budgets
- monitor ICT research
- monitor technology trends
- optimise choice of ICT solution
- review development process of an organisation
- utilise decision support system
Optional (61)
- ABAP
- AJAX
- APL
- ASP.NET
- Agile project management
- Assembly (computer programming)
- C#
- C++
- COBOL
- CoffeeScript
- Common Lisp
- Erlang
- Groovy
- Haskell
- ICT communications protocols
- ICT infrastructure
- ICT quality policy
- Java (computer programming)
- JavaScript
- Lisp
- MATLAB
- ML (computer programming)
- Microsoft Visual C++
- Objective-C
- OpenEdge Advanced Business Language
- PHP
- Pascal (computer programming)
- Perl
- Process-based management
- Prolog (computer programming)
- Python (computer programming)
- R
- Ruby (computer programming)
- SAP R3
- SAS language
- Scala
- Scratch (computer programming)
- Smalltalk (computer programming)
- Swift (computer programming)
- TypeScript
- VBScript
- Visual Basic
- build business relationships
- business intelligence
- business strategy concepts
- computer programming
- digital systems
- ensure information privacy
- hardware components
- hardware components suppliers
- identify processes for re-engineering
- information structure
- internet governance
- lean project management
- maintain relationship with customers
- oversee development of software
- perform business analysis
- scientific research methodology
- software components libraries
- software components suppliers
- use e-services
O*NET equivalents
From the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, strongest match first. A broader occupation takes in this one; a narrower one is a part of it.
Closest occupations
Compare any occupation →ESCO occupations that share the most of this occupation's 22 essential skills. A plain count, not a hidden score.
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5 shared · 18 more of its ownensure adherence to organisational ICT standards, ICT project management, monitor technology trends, define technology strategy
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ICT auditor manager
4 shared · 15 more of its ownensure adherence to organisational ICT standards, attack vectors, ICT project management, monitor technology trends
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ICT project manager
4 shared · 22 more of its ownICT project management, define technology strategy, ICT project management methodologies, manage budgets
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chief data officer
3 shared · 13 more of its owndecision support systems, utilise decision support system, define technology strategy
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ICT documentation manager
3 shared · 15 more of its ownICT project management, define technology strategy, manage budgets
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ICT research manager
3 shared · 15 more of its ownmonitor ICT research, ICT project management, monitor technology trends
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