Occupation Atlaschief information officer
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/82f90e87-de92-4678-adae-61d3e5f7e1e4
chief information officer
Chief information officers define and implement the ICT strategy and governance. They determine necessary resources for the ICT strategy implementation, anticipate ICT market evolutions and company business needs. They contribute to the development of the organisation's strategic plan and ensure that the ICT infrastructure supports the organisation's overall operations and priorities.
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Job Zone
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- 4
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Zone 4: Considerable Preparation Needed
Considerable preparation. Usually a bachelor's degree plus several years of work-related experience, knowledge, or training.
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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 (23)
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 methodologies
- attack vectors
- carry out strategic research
- coordinate technological activities
- decision support systems
- define technology strategy
- ensure adherence to organisational ICT standards
- forecast future ICT network needs
- implement ICT risk management
- implement corporate governance
- information architecture
- information structure
- maintain plan for continuity of operations
- manage software releases
- market analysis
- monitor technology trends
- optimise choice of ICT solution
- review development process of an organisation
- software architecture models
- software design methodologies
- systems development life-cycle
- use different communication channels
- utilise decision support system
Optional (66)
- ABAP
- AJAX
- APL
- ASP.NET
- Agile development
- Agile project management
- Assembly (computer programming)
- C#
- C++
- COBOL
- CoffeeScript
- Common Lisp
- DevOps
- Erlang
- Groovy
- Haskell
- ICT architectural frameworks
- 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)
- Prototyping development
- Python (computer programming)
- R
- Rapid application development
- Ruby (computer programming)
- SAP R3
- SAS language
- Scala
- Scratch (computer programming)
- Smalltalk (computer programming)
- Spiral development
- Swift (computer programming)
- TypeScript
- VBScript
- Visual Basic
- Waterfall development
- World Wide Web Consortium standards
- administer ICT system
- carry out statistical forecasts
- computer programming
- deploy ICT systems
- digital systems
- engineering processes
- ensure information privacy
- establish an ICT customer support process
- implement ICT security policies
- incremental development
- internet governance
- iterative development
- lead technology development of an organisation
- lean project management
- manage budgets
- manage staff
- monitor ICT research
- oversee development of software
- protect personal data and privacy
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.
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