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.

Scope note

Includes people working in a higher level than the CEO.

Alternative Labels

chief digital officer

chief technology officer

chief technology officers

CTO

information technology director

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

administer ICT system analyse ICT system carry out strategic research coordinate technological activities define technology strategy ensure adherence to organisational ICT standards establish an ICT customer support process implement ICT coding conventions implement corporate governance 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

Essential Knowledge

ICT project management ICT project management methodologies attack vectors decision support systems

Optional Skills and Competences

build business relationships ensure information privacy maintain relationship with customers oversee development of software perform business analysis

Optional Knowledge

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 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) Python (computer programming) R Ruby (computer programming) SAP R3 SAS language Scala Scratch (computer programming) Smalltalk (computer programming) Swift (computer programming) TypeScript VBScript Visual Studio .NET business intelligence business strategy concepts computer programming hardware components hardware components suppliers information structure internet governance scientific research methodology software components libraries software components suppliers

Concept URI

Concept Uri

http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/7b1b5da8-573a-49bb-a38e-68725a949f4f

Status

released

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