Experience
- IT Industry: A minimum of five (5) years of work experience in IT in the last eight (8) years
- Technical Focus/Stream: A minimum of three (3) years of work experience in the last five (5) years
- Professional Development: Training in Project Management and technical area.
- Knowledge of industry trends
- Community Contribution: Contributions made to the profession
Core Foundation Skills
Candidates must be able to demonstrate that they have skills in all of the following areas:
- People: Written and verbal communication, negotiation skills, problem analysis and resolution, mentoring and team leadership
- Business: Understand business aspects and providing input to winning bids
- Project Management: Set technical direction, manage an IT project plan, develop solutions, and personal contribution
- Architecture: Understand interface to architecture and develop re-use mindset
Client Focus Skills
Candidates must be able to demonstrate that they have skills in one of the following areas:
- Services: Advise on solutions and complex engagements, develop plans, and assure project viability
- Sales: Advise on technical decisions, lead technical evaluation and demonstration, assure solution viability, develop competitive analysis, and create client deliverables
- Support: Advise on technical decisions, problem analysis and resolution, provide technical leadership, create client deliverables, manage change, identify sales opportunities, and propose solutions
- Training: Understand concepts, define learning objectives, customize programs, vary training delivery, teach to different learning styles, and develop and update training materials
Technical Focus Area (choose one)
- Business Analysis
- Applications Development
- Packaged Application Implementation
- Data Integration
- Testing
- Infrastructure and Applications Development
- Systems and Hardware Products (storage systems, networking systems, servers, cross-systems)
- Infrastructure Design
- Software (application development products, application and integration middleware, data management, content) management
- Security
- IT Service Management - Delivery, Consulting and Operations