Top 5 Highest Paying Tech Jobs

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Harsh Singh
Jul 04, 2019   •  82 views

In this modern developing era , deciding a good career path in technological field is quite tough as it is growing day by day and becoming very vast. There are numerous career paths availabe today and going for the best is still a big question mark in everybody's mind. So here i will be listing some of the highest paying jobs in 2019 and skills requried to get these jobs in our hands.

1.Data Scientist

Data science has created a huge impact on today's IT world, as a field Data science has rose to prominance owing the record level of the structured and unstructured data. Data scientist are analytical data expert who have the technical skills to solve complex problems. They’rehalfmathematician,halfcomputer scientistandhalftrend-spotter.

Average salary of data scientist : 139,840 USD per annum

Skills needed

  1. statistical & analytical skills

  2. Data mining activities

  3. ML and deep learning priciples

  4. Experience in R and python

  5. SQL/Database coding

  6. Understanding od Big data tools

Roles and Responsibilities

  1. Discover insights from the data

  2. Identifies occurrence of a particular event in future

  3. Builds recommendation engines & automated lead scoring systems

Top hiring companies

  1. facebook

  2. TATA consultancy

  3. Capgemini

  4. Google

2.DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer is somebody who understands the Software Development Lifecycle and has a deep understanding of various automation tools for developing digital pipelines . DevOps Engineers mainly work with developers and the IT staff to oversee the code releases.It can be said that DevOps are developers who get interested in deployment and network operations or system-administrators who have a keen passion for scripting and coding.

Average salary: 137,000 USD per annum

Skills needed

  1. Linux fundamentals and scripting knowledge

  2. continuous integration and delivery

  3. Infrastructure as code(IaC)

Roles and Responsibilities

  1. DevOps Evangelist

  2. Release Manager

  3. Automation Expert

  4. Security Engineer

  5. Quality Assurance

Top hiring companies

  1. IBM

  2. Cognizant

3.Senior Cloud Architect

Demand of cloud computing experties contiues to increase exponentially and will accelarate in coming years and one of the most requested cloud computing jobs in the IT field today is of a person that can work on cloud or we can say Cloud Architect. Acloud architect is an IT expert who is responsible for overseeing a company'scloud computing strategies this includescloud adoption plans,cloudapplication design, andcloud management and monitoring.

Average salary: 126,006 USD per annum

Skills Requried

  1. Enterprise computing

  2. planning and organisation

  3. communication & collaboration

  4. Strategy and business sense

Roles and Responsibilities

  1. Establish best practices for cloud

  2. Developing a cloud Strategy and coordinating adaption process

  3. Selecting cloud providers and vetting third-party services

  4. Monitor privacy and develop incident-response procedure

Top hiring companies

  1. J.P.MORGAN

  2. Capgemini

  3. IBM

  4. Oracle

  5. SAP

4.IoT Solutions Architect

An IoT solutions architect is an IT professional involved in developing practical uses and applications of IoT or internet of things technology. The role of IoT solutions architect is that they typically works with engineers and salespeople to facilitate process development.

Average salary: 125,000 USD per annum

Skills needed

  1. Sensor Architecture

  2. cloud software

  3. Networking

  4. Big Data

  5. Cyber security

Roles and responsibilities

  1. Build digital solutions using best available technologies

  2. IT modernization with agile stategies to digitally transform businesses

Top hiring companies

  1. Cisco

  2. Bosch

  3. Amazon

5.Data Warehouse Architect

Internet has brought a big data revolution, in this world of ever growing data we need specialist that could help us build and form a bridge between traditional ware housing and modern data handling.

Average salary:116,989 USD per annum

skills needed

  1. knowledge of ETL, Data Modelling , analysis etc.

  2. In -depth system and application development knowledge

  3. Vision and great communication skills

Roles and responsibilities

  1. Requirement gathering of data warehousing system

  2. planning of data warehousing system

  3. Designing of data warehousing system

  4. Articulation of DWS

Top hiring companies

  1. Amazon

  2. Microsoft

  3. Google

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