Must-have skills to make it big in Big Data/ Skills required for software developers in the cloud era

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CAREER DIALOGUE content.timesjobs.com | Wednesday, June 03rd 2014

Employees need to be able to tell a story by using analytics Gaurav Vohra, CEO, Jigsaw Academy, talks about the salaries in the Analytics industry and the roles and skills that will be in demand in 2014. Media has blurred the lines between 'big data' and 'analytics'. When we talk about generating insights from data, we are referring to analytics, which is embedded in virtually every part of our life – from financial matters to our health to our travel. Big data refers to a specific kind of analytics – one that works better with huge amount of unstructured data. Read more

Career Coaching New skills required for software developers in the 'cloud era' So far, the responsibilities of a software developer have been restricted to writing and coding individual programmes or providing an entirely new software resource. The specifications they work on often come from IT analysts. They are also sometimes asked to work on `off the shelf' software, requiring them to modify and integrate this into an existing network to meet the needs of the business. Read more Must-have skills to make it big in Big Data Problem solving, communications skills with open mindedness are critical skills for this industry. The biggest constraint for the Big Data industry today is the fact that there are not enough people who understand Big Data, to work on it, to manage it and get meaningful results out of it. Read more Job Market Updates Paytm to hire 400 employees in 2014-15, campus recruitment in last quarter Mobile commerce firm Paytm is planning to hire as many as 400 people in the current fiscal, mostly at middle and senior level, as a part of its expansion plans. A major portion of the hiring will be for its office in the national capital region. Read more How Narendra Modi government can boost technology manufacturing to provide jobs to millions As contrasts go, few could be starker: technology services have ballooned to a $110-billion business in the past decade while technology manufacturing is stranded on the runway. Unsurprisingly, manufacturing hopefuls jokingly point out that "we haven't just missed the bus, we've missed the flight" and, more seriously, "we can't even make a computer mouse". Read more

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