Data processing specialist

The data processing specialist or the data processing specialist exerts a trade of the Informatique. The variety of the data processing specialists reflects on the one hand that of the Technique S data processing and on the other hand that of the modes of Organization of data-processing work. It is illustrated within the framework of the Recherche, of the Conception of systems, the Production and the Gestion, of the Maintenance. These activities can relate to the material field and/or the software field (English hardware and software). “ Informaticien ” is thus a generic term which can indicate trades very distant from/to each other.

The large ones and small fields of the trades of data processing

The scientific data processing specialist

The work of a scientific data processing specialist is to discover new scientific facts, to extend knowledge of computer science.

English equivalent: Computer Scientist .

The most current formation: university degree in data processing of level controls or doctorate.

The material data processing specialist

The work of a material data processing specialist ( Hardware in English) is to use his knowledge in electronic and technological data processing in order to conceive and to supervise the manufacture or the use of Computer material, for example of the charts or the Périphériques data processing.

The most current formations:

  • university degree in data-processing genius,
  • school of computer engineer.

The software data processing specialist

The work of a software data processing specialist is to use his knowledge in computer science in order to conceive and to supervise the development of computer applications, or software.

This work results concretely in various activities, often related to the age and the experiment of the software data processing specialist:

  • the beginner, left the school or faculty, will generally make development, it codes the described tasks of a program in the specifications which are provided to him. It carries out also maintenance on existing programs, and also of the evolutions (additions of functionalities to programs etc).
  • After a few years, the software data processing specialist has a better technical training and trade. While starting to frame younger developers, one of the possible evolutions is to become Project manager. The growing knowledge of the techniques and the trade makes it possible the software data processing specialist to advise the users or customers in order to help them to determine their need, to evoke forgotten functionalities etc He also proposes technical solutions on which he slices with the customer: local interface on each station, interfaces Web divided, database… It can then become architect of IF or person in charge of IF, with the head of several projects of scale, like a ERP…

The most current formations:

  • school of engineer in data processing,
  • university degree in data processing,
  • university degree in software genius,
  • Advanced vocational diploma in data processing.

Great trades of data processing

Trades of data processing

The trades of data processing gather:

  • the project managers : charged with managing data processing development projects or the computing systems. Their principal task is the planning of the projects, technically and in terms of human resources.
  • the Originator S : asked to identify the user's needs and to specify them. Their role consists in particular explaining the concepts with experts not data processing specialists.
  • the Consultant S : charged essentially analyzing an environment, a need or a problem data processing on the plans functional and technical and with proposing one or more scenarios of adequate evolution or resolution. Their field of activity is, in practice, much more variable and vast: it extends from the council to the project management, while passing by the commercial action.
  • the Analyst S : charged with technically specifying the concepts defined by the Originator in data-processing components.
  • the Developer S : responsible for the programming within the project.
  • the Webmaster S : responsible for the development of Internet sites.
  • the responsible for the information system security : charged with the Information system security.
  • the administrators of databases or dBa : responsible for the good performance of a Database and/or a basic Management system of data.
  • the Tester S or qualifieurs : charged with testing the software or the chains of programs produces by the programmers, for example during the period of VABF.
  • the system administrators : responsible for the applicative maintenance of the waiters
  • technicians in telecommunications.
  • the administrators network : charged with managing the accounts and the machines of a network.
  • the architects of information systems : charged with defining the cartography of computing systems (software and material).
  • the town planners : charged with redefining the projects on the functional level.
  • the technicians helpdesk : responsible for the technical assistance to the users.
  • the technical writers : charged with producing the documentation intended for the trades .
  • the Enquiring S : charged with discovering new concepts or new computing systems.

Related trades of data processing specialist (sale, technical assistance)

See also: Customer support

Many trades are related with data processing. Among those, some can nevertheless be exerted by Autodidacte S in data processing, or by people not having especially technical concepts:

  • the Salesman S of data-processing products: charged with advising the purchasers on the data-processing products (example: salesman in microprocessing).
  • the Téléassistant S : employees with the assistance with the users.
  • the commercial ones.
  • the Webmaster S managing the contents: responsible for the leading follow-up of a Web site, without responsibility for maintenance technical.
  • the writers of documentation: charged with producing the documentation intended for the users.
  • the computer graphics experts: Graphic designer S using the Computer like tool for graphic design charged to produce:
    • of the icons, drawings or diagrams in the respect of the graphic Charter of a Software ,
    • or a graphic or artistic work which are not specific to the data-processing field (examples: Put in color, Drawing computer-assisted,…).

Routes of training of the data processing specialists

Statutes

The team of data processing specialists

The operator: First level of the data-processing career.

The programmer: Second level of the data-processing career.

The programmer as a chief: Third level of the data-processing career.

The analyst: Fourth level of the data-processing career.

The analyst programmer: Fifth level of the data-processing career.

The data processing specialist: Sixth level of the data-processing career.

The data processing specialist as a chief: Seventh level of the data-processing career.

The project manager.

The data-processing director.

See too

Internal bonds

  • Hacker
  • software firm Services company in data-processing engineering.
  • MUNCI Professional association in France federating the members of the professions of information technologies.

External bonds

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