Bye bye IT Engineer!
Arnaud van Rietschoten
ServiceNow Executive Consultant - M365 implementation - Cloud Migrations - Interim Cxx - Non-Executive Director. It's all about HOW you do IT! Enjoying the journey...
In this series of posts, Arnaud looks back to his active working life of the past 35 years or so and shares his perspective on corporate life. All is based on real experiences although any resemblance with real people is purely coincidental.
The end is near!
The coming generation of IT experts entering the job market will be the largest population ever starting a career in IT. They will also be among the last ones, after that it will be done!
Think about it.?Today?there is almost no company that does not require an army of IT engineers. In my article 'Why IT Enterprise software sucks' I explained how IT managed to make things so complex and ensured job security for the foreseeable coming years.
However, this will change.....
Change ahead!
The following main trends will result in a steep drop of employment opportunities for the current army of IT experts :
As a result, enterprises will have no need to maintain data centers. Finally, support needs will evaporate as users will have written their own business applications.
What remains is a small core IT team maintaining end-user technology, some network infrastructure, and liaising with cloud providers.
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Watch out for the CIO/CTO!
Visionary IT leaders will embrace this trend, anticipate it and federate their current IT structure into the business teams. They will accept their role will be reduced to a technology facilitator and their success is measured on the ability of business teams to adopt these new technologies and the minimal size of the IT organisation.
No revolution without casualties! Not every CTO will support this change that easily and before this is all done and dusted, blood will have flown at the senior executive level. Today we already observe the tension between progressive business stakeholders that are keen to adopt these technologies versus the IT teams that will forcefully defend their domain knowledge and will refuse to let go of their development tasks.
Although these technologies have a way to go before they live up to their promises, trust me it will happen and IT will ultimately lose that battle.
Bye-bye IT Engineer
In 2045 IT in the enterprise will have shrunken quite a bit.
By then I will be approaching my 85th birthday and will no longer be part of it the IT rat race.
I will be sharing the memories of the good old days of IT with my grandchildren. The good old days when an IT engineer was someone with status,
For sure the definition of IT will change with time. Actually every work will eventually be a tech work in the coming decade. Some thoughts in the article below https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.economictimes.com/jobs/what-will-technology-jobs-look-like-a-decade-from-now/amp_articleshow/73080280.cms
Technology Advisor and Chief Executive Officer at Cinergie Digital
4 年Great points from and enterprise business perspective. Cloud and low code will create great shifts in business IT. Software engineers need not worry too much, after all it is the software that powers the mythical cloud.
Software Development & Network Engineering
4 年I guess we can rephrase it as the end of the IT bubble :) IT will just become BAU, with no more lift operators assigned to every building, The bulk of IT will be performed by dedicated corporates.
IT Senior Operations Engineer at Emirates
4 年Lets look at the Positive perspective...the END of something is surely a BEGINNING of something ?
ITSM | ITAM | ITOM I AIOps | SAM | Cloud FinOps
4 年Another addition to the "End of XXXX" publications :) The End of Nature by Bill McKibben - 1989 The End of Physics by David Lindley - 1993 The End of Science by John Horgan - 1996 End of Days by Sylvia Browne, Lindsay Harrison - 2008 The End of Times by Roy Burger, Julia Burger - 2016 The End of IT Engineer by Arnaud van Rietschoten - 2020?