Hyderabad: Look beyond the current spell of lay-offs, and the talk of obsolescence. Technologies emerging over the last few years in the IT sector have created more than 50 types of jobs for engineering graduates. Virtual reality, Internet of Things (IoT), big data analytics, artificial intelligence, robotic process automation are some of the in-demand technologies.
Of these, virtual reality has over 12 job roles and techies skilled in this domain can get jobs like VFX artist and computer vision engineer. With a prediction for 50 billion connected devices by 2020 and a market value of $661 billion by 2021, IoT is said to be the hottest skill right now. IoT in combination with big data analytics will create opportunities for both organisations and professionals.
Techies who specialise in IoT have 11 job roles like wireless network specialist and embedded system progammer to choose from. Skills in artificial intelligence — which seeks to evolve machines that function on par with or exceed the human brain and intelligence — are being highly sought after. AL offers 10 job roles for techies including AI research scientist and language processing specialist to name a few.
According to Mr Rajeev Ravulapati, a techie with nearly two decades in the software field, freshers coming out of college have many specialisations to choose from and explore many job opportunities.
“Fifteen to 20 years ago, job roles were either application-based or web-based. The job roles were less than 15 and were confined to programming, testing, network, data base administration or web designing. Now, many technologies and tools have come up and job roles for potential candidates have increased,” Mr Ravulapati said.
Job roles
Virtual reality: 12 roles, including VFX Artist, computer vision engineer
Internet of Things: 11 roles as wireless network specialist, embedded systems programmer etc.
Artificial intelligence: 10 roles including AI research scientist, language processing specialist.
Robotics process Automation: 5 roles as RPA developer, deployment engineer, among others.
Big data analytics: 4 roles, among them data scientist, data architect
Cloud Computing: 5 roles including cloud architect, migration engineer.
3D Printing: 4 roles as 3D modeling engineer
