Profession ICT system developer

ICT system developers maintain, audit and improve organisational support systems. They use existing or new technologies to meet particular needs. They test both hardware and software system components, diagnose and resolve system faults.

Personality Type

• Investigative / Realistic
• Social / Investigative

Knowledge

• Tools for software configuration management

  The software programs to perform configuration identification, control, status accounting and audit, such as CVS, ClearCase, Subversion, GIT and TortoiseSVN perform this management.

• Computer programming

  The techniques and principles of software development, such as analysis, algorithms, coding, testing and compiling of programming paradigms (e.g. object oriented programming, functional programming) and of programming languages.

• ICT debugging tools

  The ICT tools used to test and debug programs and software code, such as GNU Debugger (GDB), Intel Debugger (IDB), Microsoft Visual Studio Debugger, Valgrind and WinDbg.

• ICT system programming

  The methods and tools required to develop system software, specifications of system architectures and interfacing techniques between network and system modules and components.

• ICT system integration

  The principles of integrating ICT components and products from a number of sources to create an operational ICT system, techniques which ensure interoperability and interfaces between components and the system.

• Integrated development environment software

  The suite of software development tools for writing programs, such as compiler, debugger, code editor, code highlights, packaged in a unified user interface, such as Visual Studio or Eclipse.

Skills

• Collect customer feedback on applications

  Gather a response and analyse data from customers to identify requests or problems in order to improve applications and overall customer satisfaction.

• Provide technical documentation

  Prepare documentation for existing and upcoming products or services, describing their functionality and composition in such a way that it is understandable for a wide audience without technical background and compliant with defined requirements and standards. Keep documentation up to date.

• Use software design patterns

  Utilise reusable solutions, formalised best practices, to solve common ICT development tasks in software development and design.

• Develop software prototype

  Create a first incomplete or preliminary version of a piece of software application to simulate some specific aspects of the final product.

• Keep up with the latest information systems solutions

  Gather the latest information on existing information systems solutions which integrate software and hardware, as well as network components.

• Use software libraries

  Utilise collections of codes and software packages which capture frequently used routines to help programmers simplify their work.

• Analyse software specifications

  Assess the specifications of a software product or system to be developed by identifying functional and non-functional requirements, constraints and possible sets of use cases which illustrate interactions between the software and its users.

• Debug software

  Repair computer code by analysing testing results, locating the defects causing the software to output an incorrect or unexpected result and removing these faults.

• Migrate existing data

  Apply migration and conversion methods for existing data, in order to transfer or convert data between formats, storage or computer systems.

• Solve ICT system problems

  Identify potential component malfunctions. Monitor, document and communicate about incidents. Deploy appropriate resources with minimal outage and deploy appropriate diagnostic tools.

• Interpret technical texts

  Read and understand technical texts that provide information on how to perform a task, usually explained in steps.

• Create flowchart diagram

  Compose a diagram that illustrates systematic progress through a procedure or system using connecting lines and a set of symbols.

• Develop automated migration methods

  Create automated transfer of ICT information between storage types, formats and systems to save human resources from performing the task manually.

Optional knowledge and skills

Source: Sisyphus ODB