Job families in tech
The seven job families in tech and, for each, the landmark jobs and their mission: development, operations, data, security, quality, design, management.
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IT job family: what is it?
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A group of jobs that serve the same purpose: development, infrastructure and operations, data, security, testing and quality, design and user experience, management and consulting.
Job titles change from one company to the next; the family tells what the post is for. A full stack developer who is on call partly steps out of their family.
A team wants every approved change to be tested and then deployed with no manual step. Which profile sets up that pipeline?
- A DevOps engineer
- A database administrator
- An interface designer
- A product owner
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A DevOps engineer
Automating build, tests and deployment is the core of DevOps. The database administrator handles data, the designer handles usability, the product owner handles priorities.
A DevOps engineer sets up a continuous … and … pipeline so that every change reaches production without any manual step.
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A DevOps engineer sets up a continuous integration and deployment pipeline so that every change reaches production without any manual step.
The first step builds and tests each change, the second puts it into production. If a human still approves the release, it is continuous delivery, not continuous deployment.
Software developer: what is it?
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A professional who designs, writes, tests and evolves an application's code, whether web, mobile or desktop.
It is the best-known job but not the only one: a developer does not look after the network or the production servers unless the post adds operations.
Who builds the flows that bring clean data up to the dashboards?
- The data analyst
- The data engineer
- The systems administrator
- The tester
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The data engineer
The data engineer writes the ingestion and transformation flows. The data analyst uses what they produce: the two are often confused.