Information Systems Career Pathway
Today’s information age has an ever-increasing need for information systems and the graduates who can understand and use them. A degree in Information Systems will help you develop your career as an information systems professional. IS courses prepare graduates for a wide range of varied careers. As a graduate you will have excellent career prospects in business and information management and the range of potential employers will be vast across the private and public sectors. There is also the potential to work as a self employed director of your own business.
The BSc IS course enables students to gain:the technical knowledge to use and apply computer technologies in industry, the skills to design and manage innovative information systems, expertise in high demand areas of the computing industry, such as electronic commerce and information security.
Student will:learn to construct software and design information systems to create information-rich working environments, develop commercially valuable skills in our computing laboratories, work with colleagues on collaborative software projects, have the opportunity to work with the computer science and engineering department research groups for your final year project,
This degree is suitable for you if: you want a creative role in developing future innovative IT applications , you have the determination to see technical projects through to the end, you want a head start in your career as an information systems professional,
Below are a few examples of the types of jobs that you could pursue after graduating with BSc Information Systems:
1. Database administrator - responsible for the planning, design, installation, maintenance and development of a database used by organisations.
2. Applications developer - writing specifications and designing, building, testing, implementing and sometimes supporting applications using computer languages and development tools.
3. Multimedia programmer - gives a multimedia product its functionality by writing computer programs that draw together multimedia features, such as text, sound, graphics, digital/analogue photographs, 2D/3D modelling, animation, video, information and virtual reality, according to a designer’s specification.
4. Network engineer - responsible for installing, maintaining and supporting computer communication networks within an organisation or between organisations.
5. Software engineers - research, design, test, implement and maintain software systems to meet client or employer needs.
6. Systems designer - develops and implements information systems in sectors as diverse as finance, communications and retail.
7. Systems developers - test systems, diagnose and fix faults, write diagnostic programs and design and write code for operating systems and software to ensure that they function more efficiently.
8. An IT systems/business analyst - designs new IT solutions to improve business efficiency and productivity. They are responsible for analysing the business needs of their clients and stakeholders to help identify business problems and propose solutions, using the discipline of business analysis. They examine existing business models and the flows of data in the business, and then design an appropriate improved IT solution.
9. Web designers - responsible for the layout, visual appearance and usability of a website.
10. An IT consultant - works in partnership with clients to overcome their business challenges through the application of technology. A consultant’s work will often be based on the need to improve efficiency and the way a company functions, with IT used as a means to achieve this.
11. An IT project manager - specializes in information technology but also in sectors unrelated to IT that rely on IT systems. Their role is to manage the development and implementation of plans to meet business needs and the change control procedures to ensure a smooth transition during the implementation period.
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