ICT system analyst

ICT system analysts specify the system needs to meet the end user requirements. They analyse system functions in order to define their goals or purposes and to discover operations and procedures for accomplishing them most efficiently. They also design new IT solutions to improve business efficiency and productivity, produce outline designs and estimate costs of new systems, specify the operations the system will perform, and the way data will be viewed by the end user. They present the design to the users and work closely with the users to implement the solution.

ESCO Code

2511.13

NACE Code

62.1 - Computer programming activities

62.2 - Computer consultancy and computer facilities management activities

Scope note

Excludes people performing ICT programming.

Alternative Labels

IT system analyst

IT systems analyst

network analyst

ICT systems analysts

ICT system analysts

systems analyst

system analyst

ICT systems analyst

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

analyse ICT system analyse business processes analyse software specifications analyse the context of an organisation apply statistical analysis techniques create data models define technical requirements design information system execute feasibility study identify ICT system weaknesses identify customer requirements interact with users to gather requirements manage ICT legacy implication manage system testing monitor system performance perform ICT security testing solve ICT system problems use an application-specific interface

Essential Knowledge

ICT infrastructure ICT performance analysis methods attack vectors decision support systems digital systems levels of software testing online analytical processing software architecture models software metrics systems development life-cycle

Optional Skills and Competences

automate cloud tasks conduct quantitative research execute analytical mathematical calculations implement a firewall implement a virtual private network provide ICT consulting advice use query languages

Optional Knowledge

ABAP AJAX APL ASP.NET Apache Tomcat Assembly (computer programming) C# C++ COBOL CoffeeScript Common Lisp Erlang Groovy Haskell ICT process quality models Java (computer programming) JavaScript LDAP LINQ Lisp MATLAB MDX ML (computer programming) Microsoft Visual C++ N1QL NoSQL Objective-C Open source model OpenEdge Advanced Business Language Outsourcing model PHP Pascal (computer programming) Perl Prolog (computer programming) Python (computer programming) R Ruby (computer programming) SAP R3 SAS language SPARQL Scala Scratch (computer programming) Smalltalk (computer programming) Swift (computer programming) TypeScript VBScript Visual Basic XQuery audit techniques computer programming core banking software data mining distributed computing hardware architectures hardware platforms hybrid model object-oriented modelling query languages resource description framework query language service-oriented modelling system design unified modelling language

Skills Group Share

Concept status

Concept Uri

http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/a6a0b60f-08da-4faa-bf54-942987efb471

Status

released

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