Certificate in Information Technology Architecture
Program
Ensuring competitiveness is the key for IT professionals to outlast this economic downturn. The Certificate in Information Technology Architecture will assist IT professionals in demonstrating their high level of skill and their readiness to transition into more integrated functions and engage in broader ranges of responsibilities.
InformationWeek Magazine published its annual IT professional salary survey in April 2009. The survey found that:
"By title, IT architects top the salary list again this year, the only staff job with median pay above $100,000... There continues to be a premium on skills around architecture and integration."
Just as an architect of buildings is the overall visionary for the final outcome of a building, an IT architect creates a vision for the final IT product with knowledge in programming and engineering as well as business. IT architecture also engages in designing infrastructure, anticipating risk and challenges, analyzing user-experience, managing, and communicating effectively to a diverse audience.
The Certificate in Information Technology Architecture consists of nine required courses totaling 87 hours of lecture and discussion. 8.7 Continuing Education Units will be awarded to the certificate graduate.
Program Objective
Upon completion of the certificate program, graduates will be able to:
- Identify the roles and responsibilities of information technology architects
- Clearly identify crucial stages in the architecting of information technology products and apply best practices to the management of these processes
- Utilize the tools and concepts of software architecting to facilitate the development of software products
- Develop skills to identify and understand the needs of technology users and to further enhance the value of an end-product
- Define and design data management and retrieval infrastructure that supports the function of a product or an organization
- Make sound suggestions for hardware needs, information flow mapping, and governance approaches that are in line with the business goals of an organization
- Gain knowledge necessary to make sound decisions in designing defensive and offensive structures to reduce risks of security breach
- Understand and discuss strategies to define business goals and successfully align information technology development with the overall organizational goals
- Effectively communicate with and influence multiple stakeholders including management, clients, vendors and staff
Who Should Attend
- Software Developers and Programmers with 3-5 years of experience
- Systems Engineers
- Software Designers
- Enterprise-wide Systems Administrators
- Database Administrators
- Information Technology Security Management
Eligibility
There are no prerequisites for admittance to this program.
Contact Denelle Pankratz, 657.278.2605, dpankratz@fullerton.edu