Career Pathways: DIT

Look under Occupation Insights to see the Career Pathway for featured careers such as:
Software and Application Developer
System Analyst
Network Administrator

Explore this page and listings to see the job description and gross salary range of jobs in this industry, filter to these tracks:
Design
Development & Deployment
Enterprise Network Design & Management
InfoComm Sales & Marketing
Infrastructure Architecture
Network, Servers, Computer System Administrators
Project Management
Software Design & Development

The Skills Framework (SFw) for Infocomm Technology sector contains information on trends, career pathways, occupations, job roles, skills and competencies and training programmes.
The skills maps and career pathways for this sector includes these categories:
Support
Infrastructure
Professional Services
Software and Applications
Sales and Marketing

Besides contributing to the review, analysis and verification of business and software requirements, a Software and Applications Developer also creates and maintains software or applications that meet the organisation’s technical needs.

The Application Architect selects the most architecturally sound combination of software solutions, products and services to address business needs.

A Systems Analyst is responsible for developing detailed software requirements as well as evaluation tools and techniques; and providing expert advice to the software development team to ensure that system proposals are fully analysed and evaluated.

A Software Engineer reviews the analysis and verification of business and software requirements, as well as develops complex software or applications that meet technical and business specifications.

There’s more to learn from being a tech associate than just hard skills like writing code and engineering tech products. Often, it also helps to learn soft skills, which are equally important in any industry.

Overview of software development career paths.

A typical software developer career path.

Andrew Sng, an engineering project manager in the Sensors and Internet of Things (IoT) team at GovTech, describes his day at work.

Much like computer programming, UX and UI design is a field that is constantly cutting edge.

The User Experience Designer transforms a product into something that users can experience and interact with. The role involves collaborating with key business partners to enhance online user experience and to help front-end developers and engineers resolve user interface issues.

Skills UX Designers are currently expected to have: Hard skills like coding and prototyping, proficiency in software like Adobe Illustrator, as well as soft skills like analysis and collaboration (as UX is an entire process that requires other departments’ input as well as different UX Designers with different specialisations).

UX design roles are confusing. You might know what a “UX designer” does, but what about a “visual designer”, “product designer” or “UX unicorn”?

“Start learning the basics and demo every AR/VR/AI product you come across. What do you like about these experiences? How would you improve them? Are you interested in how they are made, how they function or how they look and feel? These questions can help shape what you might want to continue studying.”

The foundation is to be a developer in the first place, whether you’re a programmer, 3D artist, or so on. You must have the core skills needed to take that next step in getting into virtual reality(VR).

Quick starter guide to help jumpstart your path to becoming a VR developer.

Immersive media refers to technologies like Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality. From sectors like engineering, media, healthcare, education and retail, immersive media is expected to play a key role in the development in the digital economy. It is projected to reach US$209.2 billion by 2022 and is one of the four technology frontiers that IMDA is focusing on.

Helping large companies find the right technology providers with such expertise is where the IMDA's Open Innovation Platform (OIP) comes in. The OIP provides businesses with structured, high-touch and end-to-end support – from refining problem statements, scouting and evaluating proposals, to the prototyping process.

Currently, the industry has focused on two main virtual reality development platforms: Unity and Unreal Engine. As a VR professional, you will be expected to specialize in one of these as well as a particular category of device, including desktop computers, web-based experiences, or mobile devices.

Unreal Engine from Epic Games is used for real-time visualization and AR/VR applications in almost every industry, moving well past its original use in games. Starting with the foundations, learn what you need to know to get started in AR/VR using Unreal.