Euro­pean ICT Pro­fes­sional Role Pro­files

2020 • XI • 17

When I coor­di­nated the refor­mu­la­tion of the Inte­grated Mas­ter’s Pro­gram in Engi­neer­ing and Man­age­ment of Infor­ma­tion Sys­tems (a process that began in 2018), I com­piled and pro­duced a sub­stan­tial col­lec­tion of doc­u­ments to sup­port the effort.

Among these doc­u­ments were sev­eral Com­put­ing com­pe­tency frame­works, includ­ing the i Com­pe­tency Dic­tio­nary (iCD), Skills Frame­work for the Infor­ma­tion Age (SFIA), and Euro­pean e-Com­pe­tence Frame­work (e-CF).

As a Euro­pean Norm (EN 16234-1), the e-CF defines 41 com­pe­ten­cies rel­e­vant to the Infor­ma­tion and Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Tech­nol­ogy (ICT) work­place. It offers a com­mon lan­guage for describ­ing com­pe­ten­cies—knowl­edge, skills, and pro­fi­ciency lev­els—that is widely under­stood across Europe.

A valu­able com­pan­ion to the e-CF is the pub­li­ca­tion “Euro­pean ICT Pro­fes­sional Role Pro­files”. In this doc­u­ment, the Euro­pean Com­mit­tee for Stan­dard­iza­tion (CEN) iden­ti­fied 30 ICT pro­fes­sional role pro­files, includ­ing: Account Man­ager, Busi­ness Ana­lyst, Busi­ness Infor­ma­tion Man­ager, Chief Infor­ma­tion Offi­cer, Data Admin­is­tra­tor, Data Sci­en­tist, Data Spe­cial­ist, Devel­oper, DevOps Expert, Dig­i­tal Media Spe­cial­ist, Dig­i­tal Con­sul­tant, Dig­i­tal Edu­ca­tor, Dig­i­tal Trans­for­ma­tion Leader, Enter­prise Archi­tect, ICT Oper­a­tions Man­ager, Infor­ma­tion Secu­rity Man­ager, Infor­ma­tion Secu­rity Spe­cial­ist, Net­work Spe­cial­ist, Prod­uct Owner, Pro­ject Man­ager, Qual­ity Assur­ance Man­ager, SCRUM Mas­ter, Ser­vice Sup­port, Ser­vice Man­ager, Solu­tion Designer, Sys­tems Admin­is­tra­tor, Sys­tems Ana­lyst, Sys­tems Archi­tect, Tech­ni­cal Spe­cial­ist, and Test Spe­cial­ist.

Each Pro­file is described in terms of a sum­mary state­ment, mis­sion, deliv­er­ables, main tasks, e-Com­pe­ten­cies, and rel­e­vant KPI areas. I thought it would be use­ful to pro­vide a global overview of these 30 e-CF-based ICT Pro­fes­sional Role Pro­files.

To that end, I cre­ated a poster that offers an inte­grated view of the pro­fi­ciency lev­els, process involve­ment, and com­pe­tency affini­ties asso­ci­ated with each role. The results are, in some cases, thought-pro­vok­ing...

Click the fig­ure below to down­load a full-size PDF file of the poster.

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