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How to Identify the Right Skills for Tech Roles?

Talking with HR professionals, especially the ones that are not very tech savvy, we saw a great need for identifying the right skills and job descriptions for tech roles. For that reason, we decided to create a little cheat sheet of tech roles and matching skills. In addition, if you are not familiar with all of these roles and skills, we have defined the ones that people struggle the most with. Not very familiar with tech language in general? Get this free Technology Glossary for Recruiters and HR Managers written for recruiters and HR managers.

In case that you are looking for job descriptions for these roles, or want to publish them with one click, we have created ready-to-post job descriptions templates tech and many other roles.

Identify important skills for tech roles

Back End

Business Intelligence Analyst Business Intelligence, BI, C, C++, C#, Cognos, ETL, Java, jQuery, Objective-C, R, SQL, SAS, SSAS, SSIS, SSRS, Visual Basic, SAPUI5 – CSS, CSS3, HTML5, Javascript, OData Dynpro – ABAP, Dynpro
Data Engineer C, C++, Cassandra, HBase, HDFS, Java, Puppet, Ruby, Scala
Data Mining Perl, Python
Linux/Unix Proficient Developers AWK, Debian, Emacs Fedora, Linux, Linux-kernel, RHEL, Unix, vim, Shell, Bourne Shell, Bash, Korn, C, PHP, Python, Perl
Oracle Developer Oracle, PL/SQL, RDBMS
Site Reliability Engineer Authentication/Authorization, Cloud, HTTP, Linux/Unix, SQL, Network Design, Security performance, Disaster recovery, SSL, TCP/IP
.NET Developer ASP, ASP.NET, C#, VB.NET
Software Architect .NET, Agile, Ant, API, C++, Cassandra, CORS, CouchDB, Git, HTTP, Java, Maven, Mongo, MySQL, MVC, Oracle, Perl, PHP, Python, Redis, Ruby, SOA, SDK, Teradata, Unit-testing, Websocket
NodeJS Developer NodeJS, Javascript, AngularJS, DurandalJS, KnockoutJS

Front End and UX

Front End Developer ActionScript, AJAX, ASP.NET, CoffeeScript, CSS, Flash, HTML, HTML5, JavaScript, JQuery, SEO, AngularJS, DurandalJS, React, KnockoutJS, jQuery
Flash Developer ActionScript, Flash
Interactive Developer AJAX, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, PHP, XHTML
Ruby on Rails developer Ruby, Ruby-HTML, Ruby on Rails
SharePoint Developer AJAX, ASP.NET, C#, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, SharePoint, SQL, Windows Server, VB.NET, XML, XSL
Web Developer HTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery, KnockoutJS, AngularJS
Web Designer Design Sense, HTML, CSS, Adobe Photoshop, SEO
Angular Developer Javascript, AngularJS, HTML, CSS, jQuery, AJAX

Mobile

Android Developer C, C++, HTML5, Java, Linux, ADT (Android Development Tools)
iOS Developer C, Cocoa, HTML5, LUA, Objective-C
Blackberry Developer C, C++, Cascades, HTML5, Java, QT

Big Data

Big Data Engineers Cassandra, Cloud Computing, Hadoop, HBase, MapReduce, Mongo, Accumulo, Hypertable, Nutch, Pentaho, Sector/Sphere
Data Engineer C, C++, Cassandra, HBase, HDFS, Java, Puppet, Ruby, Scala
Data Mining Perl, Python
Machine Learning Expert Java, Perl, Python, R, Weka

Security

Security Expert Protection against Cross-site Scripting(XSS), CSRF, SQL Injection, XML External Entity Injection, Clickjacking, Denial of Service, Session Hijacking, Phishing; Strong Authentication Practices, HTTPS Enforcement, SSL, Content Security Policy
Penetration Testing Expert Exploitation of Cross-site Scripting(XSS), CSRF, SQL Injection, XML External Entity Injection, Clickjacking, Denial of Service, Session Hijacking, Buffer Overflow, Phishing, Wireshark, Fiddler, Backtrack Linux, KALI Linux, Burp Suite, Ettercap, Metasploit

Quality Assurance

Build Release Maven, Perl, Python, Shell, TCL
Release Engineer ClearCase, Git, Perforce, SVN (Subversion), Aardvark, Ant, Gradle, Hudson, Jenkins, Make, Maven
Software Tester Unit testing, Integration testing, System Testing, Performance Testing, Load Testing, Quality Assurance, Manual, Automated, Client/Server, Web-based using Mercury Interactive testing tool Quality Center, WinRunner, QuickTestPro, LoadRunner

Middleware

Middleware Developer Cobra, DCOM, Java RMI, REST, RPC, SOA, SOAP, Web Services, WSDL, XML
Data Engineer C, C++, Cassandra, HBase, HDFS, Java, Puppet, Ruby, Scala
J2EE Developer EJB (Enterprise Java Beans), Java, J2EE, Hibernate, JDBC, ODBC, Spring, MVC, Struts, JBoss, Apache, Tomcat
Ruby on rails developer Ruby, Ruby-HTML, Ruby on Rails
.NET Developer WCF, MVC, WebAPI, Web Services, C#
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