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Digital and technology solutions specialist - Cyber Security Technical Specialist

Digital and technology solutions specialist - Cyber Security Technical Specialist

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Level 7 - Professional Occupation

Investigating, identifying and implementing technological strategic solutions.

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Reference: OCC0482A

Status: assignment_turned_inApproved occupation

Average (median) salary: £50,396 per year

SOC 2020 code: 2133 It business analysts, architects and systems designers

SOC 2020 sub unit groups:

  • 2133/06 IT solutions architects and designers
  • 2131/00 IT project managers
  • 2133/04 IT systems architects
  • 2133/05 IT business analysts
  • 2136/00 IT quality and testing professionals
  • 2139/02 IT consultants

Technical Education Products

ST0482:

Digital and technology solutions specialist (integrated degree) - Cyber Security Technical Specialist

(Level 7)

Approved for delivery

Employers involved in creating the standard:

3ManFactory, Accenture, AMS Neve, BBC, Capgemini, CGI, Connect Software, DWP, IBM, J.P.Morgan, Optimity, TCS, Thales

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.

Employers involved in creating the standard:

3ManFactory, Accenture, AMS Neve, BBC, Capgemini, CGI, Connect Software, DWP, IBM, J.P.Morgan, Optimity, TCS, Thales

Green themes

Financial and Professional Business Services

Typical job titles include:

Analyst programmer
Analytics lead
Big data analyst
Business and enterprise architecture specialist
Business architect
Business change specialist
Data and insight analyst
Data management specialist
Data science specialist
Enterprise architect
IT consultancy specialist
Senior software developer
Software assurance engineer
Software consultant
Software engineering specialist
Software experience lead
Software test specialist
Solution developer
System test analyst
Systems architect

Keywords:

Degree
Digital
Digital And Technology Solution Specialist
Ict
Technology
Technology Solution Specialist

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
K65: The principles of threat intelligence, modelling and assessment. The range of modern attack techniques and how and where to research emerging attack techniques to inform the development of improved security controls, countermeasures and policies and standards;
K66: How to use human factor analysis in the assessment of threats, including the motivations and methods adopted by a wide range of human threat actors;
K67: How to select and apply tools and techniques to carry out a variety of security testing strategies including vulnerability scanning, penetration testing and ethical hacking, recognising that security testing itself cannot guarantee security and only reveal gaps in security provisioning;
K68: The different approaches and design principles that are used to engineer secure systems, focusing on the importance of building in security, privacy and resilience in the initial design;
K69: How to develop and implement security event response programmes, security event handling, and operational security activities;
K70: The different types of cyber security controls that can be implemented, the main principles of secure configuration of security components and devices, including firewalls and protective monitoring tools and how to apply them.

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.
S68: Plan and carry out a variety of security testing strategies on IT infrastructures (fixed and wireless), middle-ware and applications, to identify new issues and recommend remediation and enhancements to security policies and information technology procedures;
S69: Perform cyber threat intelligence analysis to research, analyse and evaluate technical threats by reviewing open source and other information from trusted sources for new vulnerabilities, malware, or other threats that have the potential to impact the organisation;
S70: Identify, investigate and correlate actionable security events, including performing network traffic analysis using a range of techniques relevant to the security of communication networks to assess security risks and escalating where appropriate;
S71: Conduct a vulnerability assessment, to identify and report on vulnerability issues and possible solutions arising, including recommending cost-effective mitigations comprising careful combinations of technical, procedural and administrative controls;
S72: Select and apply cyber security forensic tools and techniques for attack reconstruction, including forensic analysis and volatile data collection and analysis;
S73: Conduct analysis of attacker tools providing indicators for enterprise defensive measures including classifying and identifying attack patterns.
S74: Design and develop digital architecture and infrastructure roadmaps, implementation strategies and transformation plans focused on digital workplace transformation;
S75: Develop digital workplace business case proposals that provide return on investment (ROI) and total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis, including preparing reports and delivering presentations to senior management to secure budget;

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

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