Digital Skills Officer Job Role

Digital Skills Officer

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What Does a Digital Skills Officer Do?

A Digital Skills Officer is responsible for helping develop an enterprise strategy to transition, train, and retain technical employees. Working closely with the office of the CIO or CTO, the Digital Skills Officer works to align ongoing training efforts with technical and business roadmaps. Digital Skills Officers are responsible for coordinating the overall design, management, and outcome-based measurement of training programs.

Key Traits of a Digital Skills Officer

Strategic

A strong Digital Skills Officer is able to identify key outcome-based goals with senior leadership and programmatic ways to achieve them.

Collaborative

Digital Skills Officers must liaise with department heads and subject matter experts to align technical training efforts with specific technologies and implementations.

Overachieving

The ideal Digital Skills Officer does not settle for status quo and is resourceful in delivering long-term, impactful training solutions for the organization.

Business and Tech Savvy

Since the role serves to align technical training programs to business roadmap, a background in both business and technology is ideal.

Day-to-Day Expectations and Responsibilities

Develop organization-wide learning strategies based on current-and future-state technology needs

Work collaboratively with all departments and respective subject matter experts to deliver specific, contextualized training programs by job role.

Define and track key metrics that communicate both effort and outcome of training programs for senior leadership.

Establish digital skills assessment frameworks that accurately measure skills and capabilities as they relate to business impact

Employ creative tactics to attract new talent and establish a culture of continuous improvement.

Digital Skills Officer Target Skill Set

Technical Skill Set:

Working knowledge of cloud platforms, storage, compute, and networking
Familiarity with leading learning development platforms and their pros / cons
Strong project and program management skills

Non-Technical Skill Set:

Excellent communication skills
Ability to influence others across and at all levels of the organization
Highly organized and thorough

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Training Plan for Digital Skills Officers

The following Cloud Academy Training Plans prepare professionals to become Digital Skills Officers

Digital Skills Officer

10 weeks

Cloud Adoption Framework - Cloud Skills for Business Teams

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The Cloud Adoption Framework from AWS provides a guide to help organizations design and travel an accelerated path to successful cloud adoption. Moving an organization forward through the cloud maturity stages of the Cloud Adoption Framework requires all teams within an organization to have a baseline understanding of the operational aspects of cloud computing.

Fundamentals of AWS

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This Learning Path provides you with an overview of Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform to analyze their strengths and weaknesses.

3 Pillars of the Azure Cloud

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Compute, Networking and Storage, are the pillars of cloud computing platforms, and Azure is no different. Azure’s infrastructure as a service utilizes these three pillars, and the platform as service offerings are built on top. Understanding these pillars will help you to truly understand not just the IaaS capabilities of Azure, but also the PaaS capabilities.

Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals

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If you want to learn how to use Google's lightning-fast, global cloud network to host your applications, then this is a good place to start. This learning path will help you gain a solid understanding of the various components of the Google Cloud Platform.

Training Plans ensure accountability across your teams when it comes to Digital Skills Officer training.

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Industry Certification(s) for Digital Skills Officers

The following industry certifications are popular among Digital Skills Officers:

90 minutes

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

The AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner examination is intended for individuals who have the knowledge and skills necessary to effectively demonstrate an overall understanding of the AWS Cloud, independent of specific technical roles addressed by other AWS Certifications (for example, AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate, AWS Certified Developer - Associate, or AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate).(Source: AWS)

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Microsoft AZ-900 Exam: Azure Fundamentals

The exam is intended for candidates with non-technical backgrounds, such as those involved in selling or purchasing cloud based solutions and services or who have some involvement with cloud based solutions and services, as well as those with a technical background who have a need to validate their foundational level knowledge around cloud services. (Source: Microsoft)

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We are fully committed to the training of our employees and we’re developing scalable, best-in-class programs to ensure that our organization is ready for the future. We are achieving this by establishing the right mix in our digital skills portfolio and continuously measuring learning progress across teams. This isn’t a one-time effort. We are redefining training into enablement that is ongoing, specific, and actionable across the business.

- Stacey Young Rivers

Director of Skills Analysis & Development at Turner

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