Profession knowledge engineer

Software or multimedia developers and analysts, all other, include those professionals specialising in quality assurance including software testing.

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Personality Type

• Investigative / Enterprising

Related professions software

• IT applications programmer
• IT consultant
• IT department manager
• IT information analyst
• IT project leader
• IT sales professional
• IT software engineer
• IT software tester
• IT systems analyst

Knowledge

• Information extraction

  The techniques and methods used for eliciting and extracting information from unstructured or semi-structured digital documents and sources.

• Systems theory

  The principles that can be applied to all types of systems at all hierarchical levels, which describe the system's internal organisation, its mechanisms of maintaining identity and stability and achieving adaptation and self-regulation and its dependencies and interaction with the environment.

• Information structure

  The type of infrastructure which defines the format of data: semi-structured, unstructured and structured.

• Business process modelling

  The tools, methods and notations such as Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) and Business Process Execution Language (BPEL), used to describe and analyse the characteristics of a business process and model its further development.

• Database development tools

  The methodologies and tools used for creating logical and physical structure of databases, such as logical data structures, diagrams, modelling methodologies and entity-relationships.

• Systems development life-cycle

  The sequence of steps, such as planning, creating, testing and deploying and the models for the development and life-cycle management of a system.

• Natural language processing

  The technologies which enable ICT devices to understand and interact with users through human language.

• Principles of artificial intelligence

  The artificial intelligence theories, applied principles, architectures and systems, such as intelligent agents, multi-agent systems, expert systems, rule-based systems, neural networks, ontologies and cognition theories.

• Task algorithmisation

  The techniques to convert unstructured descriptions of a process into step-by-step sequence of actions of a finite number of steps.

• Web programming

  The programming paradigm that is based on combining markup (which adds context and structure to text) and other web programming code, such as AJAX, javascript and PHP, in order to carry out appropriate actions and visualise the content.

• Resource description framework query language

  The query languages such as SPARQL which are used to retrieve and manipulate data stored in Resource Description Framework format (RDF).

• Business intelligence

  The tools used to transform large amounts of raw data into relevant and helpful business information.

Skills

• Manage business knowledge

  Set up structures and distribution policies to enable or improve information exploitation using appropriate tools to extract, create and expand business mastery.

• Define technical requirements

  Specify technical properties of goods, materials, methods, processes, services, systems, software and functionalities by identifying and responding to the particular needs that are to be satisfied according to customer requirements.

• Apply ICT systems theory

  Implement principles of ICT systems theory in order to explain and document system characteristics that can be applied universally to other systems

• Manage database

  Apply database design schemes and models, define data dependencies, use query languages and database management systems (DBMS) to develop and manage databases.

• Manage ICT semantic integration

  Oversee integration of public or internal databases and other data, by using semantic technologies to produce structured semantic output.

• Assess ICT knowledge

  Evaluate the implicit mastery of skilled experts in an ICT system to make it explicit for further analysis and usage.

• Create semantic trees

  Create coherent lists and hierarchies of concepts and terms to ensure consistent indexing in knowledge organisation systems.

• Use markup languages

  Utilise computer languages that are syntactically distinguishable from the text to add annotations to a document, specify layout and process types of documents such as HTML.

• Analyse business requirements

  Study clients' needs and expectations for a product or service in order to identify and resolve inconsistencies and possible disagreements of involved stakeholders.

Optional knowledge and skills

Source: Sisyphus ODB