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Digital and technology solutions specialist - Network Engineering Specialist

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Investigating, identifying and implementing technological strategic solutions.

Summary

A Digital & Technology Solutions Specialist maintains digital and technology strategies through technology leadership; investigating, identifying and implementing technological strategic solutions. They direct digital technology provision by studying organisation goals, strategies, and practices and delivering and supporting strategic plans for implementing digital technologies. They are confident, competent and capable individuals able to apply leadership and change management skills to operate in a range of digital and technology related specialist roles.

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Knowledge, skills and behaviours (KSBs)

K1:

The strategic importance of technology enabled business processes, and how they are designed and managed to determine a firm’s ability to compete effectively;

K2:

The principles of business transformation and how organisations integrate different management functions in the context of technological change;

K3:

The role of leadership in contemporary technology based organisations;

K4:

Own employer’s business objectives and strategy, its position in the market and how own employer adds value to its clients through the services and/or products they provide;

K5:

How to justify the value of technology investments and apply benefits management and realisation;

K6:

How to monitor technology related market trends and research and collect competitive intelligence;

K7:

The personal leadership qualities that are required to establish and maintain an organisations technical reputation.

K8:

The role of leaders as change agents and identify contributors to successful implementation;

K9:

Technology road-mapping concepts and methods and how to apply them;

K10:

The role of learning and talent management in successful business operations

K47:

How IT networks impact the organisation, business objectives and processes and the application of different approaches to network organisation and management;

K48:

The principles of secure network design, architecture, implementation and assurance, including how to develop and analyse network protocols by using networking simulation;

K49:

How to build and maintain secure networks, including the types of countermeasures that can be put in place to identify, reduce or prevent problems caused by network attacks or misuse;

K50:

How to implement quality of services (QoS) of communication networks in terms of throughput, reliability and delay, and the importance of ensuring that performance, security, availability and continuity standards meet required service levels and business needs;

K51:

Current industry standard network architectures and their individual protocol layers, including the algorithms employed, the OSI (Open Standard Interconnection) model, systematic troubleshooting approaches and how to apply them;

K52:

Network industry trends and technical opportunities, assessing their viability for use within different business scenarios.

Technical Educational Products

: ST0482: Digital and technology solutions specialist (integrated degree) - Network Engineering Specialist (Level 7) Approved for delivery

Reference:: OCC0482I

Status:: Approved occupation

Average (median) salary:: £50,945 per year

SOC 2020 code:: 2132 IT managers

SOC 2020 sub unit groups:
- 2132/06 Network managers
- 2133/04 IT systems architects

S1:

Identify, document, review and design complex IT enabled business processes that define a set of activities that will accomplish specific organisational goals and provides a systematic approach to improving those processes;

S2:

Design and develop technology roadmaps, implementation strategies and transformation plans focused on digital technologies to achieve improved productivity, functionality and end user experience in an area of technology specialism;

S3:

Deliver workplace transformations through planning and implementing technology based business change programmes including setting objectives, priorities and responsibilities with others in an area of technology specialism;

S4:

Negotiate and agree digital and technology specialism delivery budgets with those with decision-making responsibility;

S5:

Develop and deliver management level presentations which resonate with senior stakeholders, both business and technical;

S6:

Professionally present digital and technology solution specialism plans and solutions in a well-structured business report;

S7:

Demonstrate self-direction and originality in solving problems, and act autonomously in planning and implementing digital and technology solutions specialist tasks at a professional level;

S8:

Be competent at negotiating and closing techniques in a range of interactions and engagements, both with senior internal and external stakeholders;

S9:

Evaluate the significance of human factors to leadership in the effective implementation and management of technology enabled business processes;

S10:

Develop own leadership style and professional values that contributes to building high performing teams;

S11:

Apply broader technical knowledge combined with an understanding of the business context, and how it is changing, to deliver to the company’s business strategy;

S12:

Demonstrate effective technology leadership and change management skills for managing technology driven change and continuous improvement;

S13:

Create and implement innovative technological strategies to support the development of new products, processes and services that align with the company’s business strategy, and develop and communicate compelling business proposals to support these.

S50:

Take responsibility for design, build and deployment activities to deliver appropriate secure network infrastructure solutions to meet customer requirements at an enterprise level and within budget, including enhancements and network configuration updates;

S51:

Formulate detailed network and storage specifications for stable and secure computing operations in a dynamic environment identifying new networking services and capabilities;

S52:

Manage the operation, maintenance and support of secure network environments, including diagnosing and troubleshooting wireless, security, switching, phone and other network-related issues for network related incidents;

S53:

Select and apply network monitoring tools to aid planning network upgrades before they become critical. Make recommendations for improvements to security, scalability, manageability, and performance across a network, storage, and related technologies;

S54:

Produce network technology roadmaps to meet evolving business needs for enterprise computing environments, including common network services, cloud services, web application hosting, databases, high-availability services, security and backup/recovery;

S55:

Ensure network infrastructure solutions chosen fit within the overall enterprise infrastructure architecture, security architecture and security standards.

Technical Educational Products

: ST0482: Digital and technology solutions specialist (integrated degree) - Network Engineering Specialist (Level 7) Approved for delivery

Reference:: OCC0482I

Status:: Approved occupation

Average (median) salary:: £50,945 per year

SOC 2020 code:: 2132 IT managers

SOC 2020 sub unit groups:
- 2132/06 Network managers
- 2133/04 IT systems architects

B1:

Inspire and motivate others to deliver excellent technical solutions and outcomes

B2:

Establish high levels of performance in digital and technology solutions activities

B3:

Be results and outcomes driven to achieve high key performance outcomes for digital and technology solutions objectives

B4:

Promote a high level of cooperation between own work group and other groups to establish a technology change led culture

B5:

Develop and support others in developing an appropriate balance of leadership and technical skills

B6:

Create strong positive relationships with team members to produce high performing technical teams

Technical Educational Products

: ST0482: Digital and technology solutions specialist (integrated degree) - Network Engineering Specialist (Level 7) Approved for delivery

Reference:: OCC0482I

Status:: Approved occupation

Average (median) salary:: £50,945 per year

SOC 2020 code:: 2132 IT managers

SOC 2020 sub unit groups:
- 2132/06 Network managers
- 2133/04 IT systems architects