The design, development, support and management of hardware, software, multimedia and systems integration services.

Develop deep learning and computer vision applications for Autonomous Devices. Develop applications for AI devices using existing AI Platforms. Understand interplay of hardware and software architectures on future algorithms and applications to develop AI Platforms.

Computer Systems Engineers/Architects

AI Systems Engineers

Produce financial and market intelligence by querying data repositories and generating periodic reports. Devise methods for identifying data patterns and trends in available information sources.

Business Intelligence Analysts

Monitor and control electronic computer and peripheral electronic data processing equipment to process business, scientific, engineering, and other data according to operating instructions. Monitor and respond to operating and error messages. May enter commands at a computer terminal and set controls on computer and peripheral devices.

Computer Occupations, All Other

Computer Operators

Design and develop solutions to complex applications problems, system administration issues, or network concerns. Perform systems management and integration functions.

Provide technical assistance to computer users. Answer questions or resolve computer problems for clients in person, via telephone, or electronically. May provide assistance concerning the use of computer hardware and software, including printing, installation, word processing, electronic mail, and operating systems.

Computer User Support Specialists

Maintain computer operations and manage daily activities within the data center to solve problems, maintain the system availability, and evaluate the system's performance.

Data Centre Operators

Plan and deliver data integration to support data warehouse performance. Mentor team members.

Data Warehousing Specialists

Data Integration Specialists

Design, model, or implement corporate data warehousing activities. Program and configure warehouses of database information and provide support to warehouse users.

Design strategies for enterprise databases, data warehouse systems, and multidimensional networks. Set standards for database operations, programming, query processes, and security. Model, design, and construct large relational databases or data warehouses. Create and optimize data models for warehouse infrastructure and workflow. Integrate new systems with existing warehouse structure and refine system performance and functionality.

Database Architects

Develop content strategy and create and publish content across a range of platforms including websites and social media. May also optimize content according to SEO and analyse website traffic and user engagement metrics.

Search Marketing Strategists

Digital Content Specialists

Conduct investigations on computer-based crimes establishing documentary or physical evidence, such as digital media and logs associated with cyber intrusion incidents. Analyze digital evidence and investigate computer security incidents to derive information in support of system and network vulnerability mitigation. Preserve and present computer-related evidence in support of criminal, fraud, counterintelligence, or law enforcement investigations.

Digital Forensics Analysts

Digital Forensics Specialists

Implement and administer enterprise-wide document management systems and related procedures that allow organizations to capture, store, retrieve, share, and destroy electronic records and documents.

Document Management Specialists

Work closely with stakeholders to develop an organization's strategy, processes, and IT assets. Ensure that the business and its information and communications technology (ICT) are in alignment, and link the business' mission, strategy, and processes with its ICT strategy.

Enterprise Architects

Serve as advisor to senior business management on technology, software, and information integration strategies. Assist to define, implement, and execute the processes for the definition, maintenance, and management of the enterprise architecture.

Enterprise Architecture Consultants

Assist scientists, technologists, or related professionals in building, maintaining, modifying, or using geographic information systems (GIS) databases. May also perform some custom application development or provide user support.

Geographic Information Systems Technologists and Technicians

Geographic Information Systems Technicians

Research or develop geospatial technologies. May produce databases, perform applications programming, or coordinate projects. May specialize in areas such as agriculture, mining, health care, retail trade, urban planning, or military intelligence.

Geospatial Information Scientists

Develop and implement solutions to coordinate applications across the enterprise. Evaluate existing components or systems, determine integration requirements and perform ICT system integration troubleshooting.

Integration Engineers

Create artificial intelligence products. Create machine learning models and retraining systems using knowledge of statistics, programming, data science, and software engineering.

Machine Learning Engineers

Plan, write, edit, publish, and monitor the contents of a company's mobile marketing platform to improve brand awareness and increase sales.

Mobile Content Specialists

Evaluate network system security by conducting simulated internal and external cyberattacks using adversary tools and techniques. Attempt to breach and exploit critical systems and gain access to sensitive information to assess system security.

Penetration Testers

Collaborate with the development team to ensure the successful delivery of a product. Own the vision and communicate it clearly. Research market trends and develop relationships with stakeholders.

Product Owners

Design and develop metrics, reports, and analyses to drive key business decisions. Extract, analyze, and transform data.

Reporting Analysts

Employ search marketing tactics to increase visibility and engagement with content, products, or services in Internet-enabled devices or interfaces. Examine search query behaviors on general or specialty search engines or other Internet-based content. Analyze research, data, or technology to understand user intent and measure outcomes for ongoing optimization.

Responsible for coordinating and designing the essential core building block's that make up a technical solution.

Solution Architects

Resolve IT hardware and software issues. Make recommendations regarding technology, vendors, outside consultants, and trading partners. Assist with escalated issues and mentor others within technology-related areas.

Technology Advisory Consultants

Manage end-to-end technology project implementation for clients. Understand the client requirements, generate solutions, configure software, and conduct end-user training. Ensure smooth product adoption.

Technology Implementation Consultants

Influence hiring decisions and support testers to achieve their individual development goals. Ensure distributed ownership of testing, and foster a testing community. Act as testing expert, establish a testing improvement focus, and create and deliver testing-related training.

Information Technology Project Managers

Test Coaches

Design core features of video games. Specify innovative game and role-play mechanics, story lines, and character biographies. Create and maintain design documentation. Guide and collaborate with production staff to produce games as designed.

Video Game Designers

Manage web environment design, deployment, development and maintenance activities. Perform testing and quality assurance of web sites and web applications.

Web Administrators

Information Support and Services

Assist in the migration of data and services from physical IT infrastructure to virtual environments. Conduct tests and troubleshooting activities to ensure smooth transition and continued customer satisfaction thereafter.

Computer Network Support Specialists

Cloud Implementation Engineers

Design and implement computer and information networks, such as local area networks (LAN), wide area networks (WAN), intranets, extranets, and other data communications networks. Perform network modeling, analysis, and planning, including analysis of capacity needs for network infrastructures. May also design network and computer security measures. May research and recommend network and data communications hardware and software.

Computer Network Architects

Analyze, test, troubleshoot, and evaluate existing network systems, such as local area networks (LAN), wide area networks (WAN), cloud networks, servers, and other data communications networks. Perform network maintenance to ensure networks operate correctly with minimal interruption.

Plan, implement, upgrade, or monitor security measures for the protection of computer networks and information. Assess system vulnerabilities for security risks and propose and implement risk mitigation strategies. May ensure appropriate security controls are in place that will safeguard digital files and vital electronic infrastructure. May respond to computer security breaches and viruses.

Information Security Analysts

Cyber Security Analysts

Ensure online systems and networks are sufficiently protected from threats. Assist with strategic planning, assessment, and operational execution of all cyber security strategies, policies, and procedures. Establish and maintain a comprehensive information security program to ensure that all information assets are adequately protected against current and future internal and external threats.

Cyber Security Consultants

Administer, test, and implement computer databases, applying knowledge of database management systems. Coordinate changes to computer databases. Identify, investigate, and resolve database performance issues, database capacity, and database scalability. May plan, coordinate, and implement security measures to safeguard computer databases.

Database Administrators

Develop, test, operate, monitor, manage, and/or support IT services using a collection of hardware, software, networks, data centers, facilities, and related equipment.

IT Infrastructure Services Analysts

Install, configure, and maintain an organization's local area network (LAN), wide area network (WAN), data communications network, operating systems, and physical and virtual servers. Perform system monitoring and verify the integrity and availability of hardware, network, and server resources and systems. Review system and application logs and verify completion of scheduled jobs, including system backups. Analyze network and server resource consumption and control user access. Install and upgrade software and maintain software licenses. May assist in network modeling, analysis, planning, and coordination between network and data communications hardware and software.

Network and Computer Systems Administrators

Review, analyze, and evaluate an organization's telecommunications needs and systems. Provide training on the telecommunications system features and functionalities.

Telecommunications Engineering Specialists

Telecommunications Analysts

Design or configure wired, wireless, and satellite communications systems for voice, video, and data services. Coordinate installation, service, and maintenance.

Network Systems

Develop applications for augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) hardware devices such as sensing systems, tracking systems, imaging systems, and haptic devices.

Software Developers

Augmented and Virtual Reality Developers

Design, implement, and build the architecture of blockchain environments, distributing ledger and smart contracts.

Blockchain Engineers

Blockchain Architects

Design, implement, and support a distributed blockchain-based network. Analyze requirements, design blockchain technology based on the business model, and build and launch a blockchain network.

Blockchain Developers

Create, modify, and test the code and scripts that allow computer applications to run. Work from specifications drawn up by software and web developers or other individuals. May develop and write computer programs to store, locate, and retrieve specific documents, data, and information.

Computer Programmers

Analyze science, engineering, business, and other data processing problems to develop and implement solutions to complex applications problems, system administration issues, or network concerns. Perform systems management and integration functions, improve existing computer systems, and review computer system capabilities, workflow, and schedule limitations. May analyze or recommend commercially available software.

Computer Systems Analysts

Apply technical knowledge and experience to modernize data governance practices and principles. Serve as a steward fostering change to operational technical governance frameworks. Conduct strategy and governance assessments to recommend solutions for improving oversight and decision-making to drive data initiatives.

Data Governance Analysts

Apply knowledge of nursing and informatics to assist in the design, development, and ongoing modification of computerized health care systems. May educate staff and assist in problem solving to promote the implementation of the health care system.

Health Informatics Specialists

Advise on how to optimize the use of existing tools and systems, make recommendations for the development and implementation of a business project or technological solution, and contribute to project definitions. Raise awareness of IT innovations and their potential value to a business, and participate in the assessment and choice of solutions.

ICT Consultants

Advise on bringing together different systems to interoperate within an organisation to enable data sharing and reduce redundancy.

ICT System Integration Consultants

Perform audits of information systems, platforms, and operating procedures in accordance with established corporate standards for efficiency, accuracy, and security. Evaluate IT infrastructure in terms of risk to the organization and establish controls to mitigate loss. Determine and recommend improvements in the current risk management controls and in the implementation of system changes or upgrades.

IT Auditors

Support the wider business in all IT strategic decision-making. Manage and analyze IT performance and key metrics of the business, and provide insights and recommendations on key technology decisions. Foster strong relationships with various business teams.

IT Business Partners

Support the management of current knowledge management practices including the design and implementation of new knowledge policies.

Knowledge Management Analysts

Undertake the management and maintenance of the knowledge systems, ensuring that content is relevant, current, and of sufficient quality to be viewed by customers. Monitor and report on usage and usefulness of the knowledge system.

Knowledge Management Consultants

Develop applications software for mobile devices based on designs provided. Use general or specific development tools for device operating systems.

Mobile Applications Developers

Develop, create, and modify general computer applications software or specialized utility programs. Analyze user needs and develop software solutions. Design software or customize software for client use with the aim of optimizing operational efficiency. May analyze and design databases within an application area, working individually or coordinating database development as part of a team. May coordinate computer programmers.

Software Application Developers

Develop and execute software tests to identify software problems and their causes. Test system modifications to prepare for implementation. Document software and application defects using a bug tracking system and report defects to software or web developers. Create and maintain databases of known defects. May participate in software design reviews to provide input on functional requirements, operational characteristics, product designs, and schedules.

Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers

Software Quality Assurance Engineers and Testers

Identify, review, and execute test cases, and analyze the test results. Monitor the test coverage and evaluate the overall quality of results.

Software Testers

Research, design, develop, and test operating systems-level software, compilers, and network distribution software for medical, industrial, military, communications, aerospace, business, scientific, and general computing applications. Set operational specifications and formulate and analyze software requirements. May design embedded systems software. Apply principles and techniques of computer science, engineering, and mathematical analysis.

Systems Software Developers

Provide quality assurance of software development and deployment. Develop and implement test automation.

Test Automation Engineers

Responsible for the creation and production of games for personal computers, games consoles, social/online games, arcade games, tablets, mobile phones and other handheld devices.

Video Game Developers

Programming and Software Development

Design user interfaces for applications and systems. Perform layout, graphics, and dialogue design activities, as well as adaptation activities.

Web and Digital Interface Designers

UI Designers

Handle the planning, design, and execution of all websites, online/mobile experiences, SEO, SEM, email, social media, and digital advertising.Develop UX deliverable including wireframes, service designs, user journeys and functional specifications.

UX Designers

Develop and implement websites, web applications, application databases, and interactive web interfaces. Evaluate code to ensure that it is properly structured, meets industry standards, and is compatible with browsers and devices. Optimize website performance, scalability, and server-side code and processes. May develop website infrastructure and integrate websites with other computer applications.

Web Developers

Web and Digital Communications

The U.S. accounts for 32% of the technology market worldwide, contributing over $1.7 trillion to the economy each year.

Global impact

More so than perhaps in any other industry, many IT jobs can be performed remotely, as long as a reliable Internet connection is available.

Job flexibility

Almost 550,000 new IT jobs are expected in the coming years, with substantial growth in information security, software and application development, cloud computing, and data storage.

Industry trends

Major cities with a well-established IT job market include: San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, Los Angeles, Dallas-Fort Worth, and Chicago. Newer IT job markets are growing in cities like Austin, Charleston, Charlotte, Fort Myers, and Madison.

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