Profession system configurator

System configurators tailor a computer system to the organisation's and users' needs. They adjust the base system and software to the needs of the customer. They perform configuration activities and scripting and ensure communication with users.

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Personality Type

• Investigative / Realistic

Knowledge

• ICT infrastructure

  The system, network, hardware and software applications and components, as well as devices and processes that are used in order to develop, test, deliver, monitor, control or support ICT services.

• ICT performance analysis methods

  The methods used to analyse software, ICT system and network performance which provide guidance to root causes of issues within information systems. The methods can analyse resource bottlenecks, application times, wait latencies and benchmarking results.

• Cognitive psychology

  The human mental processes such as attention, memory, language use, perception, problem solving, creativity and thinking.

• ICT system user requirements

  The process intended to match user and organisation's needs with system components and services, by taking into consideration the available technologies and the techniques required to elicit and specify requirements, interrogating users to establish symptoms of problem and analysing symptoms.

• Service-oriented modelling

  The principles and fundamentals of service-oriented modelling for business and software systems that allow the design and specification of service-oriented business systems within a variety of architectural styles, such as enterprise architecture and application architecture.

Skills

• Configure ICT system

  Set up and customise an ICT system to meet requirements during initial implementation as well as when new business needs arise.

• Analyse software specifications

  Assess the specifications of a software product or system to be developed by identifying functional and non-functional requirements, constraints and possible sets of use cases which illustrate interactions between the software and its users.

• Collect customer feedback on applications

  Gather a response and analyse data from customers to identify requests or problems in order to improve applications and overall customer satisfaction.

• Replicate customer software issues

  Use specialised tools to replicate and analyse the conditions that caused the set of software states or outputs reported by the customer in order to provide adequate solutions.

• Create flowchart diagram

  Compose a diagram that illustrates systematic progress through a procedure or system using connecting lines and a set of symbols.

• Interpret technical texts

  Read and understand technical texts that provide information on how to perform a task, usually explained in steps.

• Integrate system components

  Select and use integration techniques and tools to plan and implement integration of hardware and software modules and components in a system. Apply specific testing techniques to ensure integrity during system integration.

• Migrate existing data

  Apply migration and conversion methods for existing data, in order to transfer or convert data between formats, storage or computer systems.

• Develop automated migration methods

  Create automated transfer of ICT information between storage types, formats and systems to save human resources from performing the task manually.

Optional knowledge and skills

Source: Sisyphus ODB