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1330.2

Description

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.

Alternative Labels

chief information officer

chief information officers

CIO

IT director

Regulatory Aspect

To see if and how this occupation is regulated in EU Member States, EEA countries or Switzerland please consult the Regulated Professions Database of the Commission. Regulated Professions Database:

http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/services/free-movement-professionals/qualifications-recognition_en

Skills & Competences

Essential Skills and Competences

carry out strategic research coordinate technological activities define technology strategy ensure adherence to organisational ICT standards forecast future ICT network needs implement ICT risk management implement corporate governance maintain plan for continuity of operations manage software releases monitor technology trends optimise choice of ICT solution review development process of an organisation use different communication channels utilise decision support system

Essential Knowledge

ICT project management methodologies attack vectors decision support systems information architecture information structure market analysis software architecture models software design methodologies systems development life-cycle

Optional Skills and Competences

administer ICT system carry out statistical forecasts deploy ICT systems ensure information privacy establish an ICT customer support process implement ICT safety policies lead technology development of an organisation manage budgets manage staff monitor ICT research oversee development of software safeguard online privacy and identity

Optional Knowledge

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 Incremental development Iterative development Java (computer programming) JavaScript Lean project management 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 Studio .NET Waterfall development World Wide Web Consortium standards computer programming engineering processes internet governance

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http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/82f90e87-de92-4678-adae-61d3e5f7e1e4

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chief information officer

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