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A Software Engineering Career Ladder

James Shore

Where the old spreadsheet focused on individual ownership and investigating new technologies, the new one emphasizes teamwork, peer leadership, and maintainable code. I’m hoping this will help direct people to new behaviors, which will in turn start to change the engineering culture. Submitted for Your Approval Why tell you all this?

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9 most in-demand IT jobs in manufacturing

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Software engineer. The demand for software in manufacturing has only increased, as nearly every piece of equipment or hardware is now connected to the internet in some form — and this has also increased the demand for software engineers. Principal software engineer. Embedded software engineer.

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IT leaders uplift women to fill tech talent gaps

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With an undergraduate degree in political science and time spent as a Peace Corps and AmeriCorps volunteer, Lain McGrath hardly envisioned a career in software engineering. I didn’t just want to be a software engineer — I wanted to be a software engineer at Gusto,” McGrath explains. “I

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14 in-demand cloud roles companies are hiring for

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Skills: Skills for this role include knowledge of application architecture, automation, ITSM, governance, security, and leadership. Role growth: 20% of businesses have added cloud systems engineer roles as part of their cloud investments.

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7 Pieces of Bad Advice for Women in Engineering Leadership

Dzone - DevOps

Here are some of the items people have advised me, and why they may, or may not work. Don’t be too technical. or not technical enough.” Sure… I cannot tell you how many times when functioning as a systems engineer, I was told, “You know how developers are…" Well, yeah, I coded for many years.

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8 top priorities for CIOs in 2023

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There’s an industry-wide push to reduce technical and data debt and reallocate those resources toward building the future, Conyard says. “CIOs To achieve this goal, “CIOs need to treat the assessment and analysis of data as a scientific discipline,” he advises. IT Leadership, IT Strategy.

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19 organizations advancing women in tech

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Systers is still functioning today and is now the “largest email community of women in technical computing” with more than 8,500 members worldwide. Kimberly Bryant founded Black Girls Code in part because she felt culturally isolated in her electrical engineering and computer programming courses in college. Black Girls Code.