How To Differentiate The Job Role of IT Consultant and Software Engineer?
There are very thin line difference between an IT professional and a software engineer. Let’s put it in a way an architecture and a local building constructor worker – the basic job of both of them is to construct a house. But the basic difference comes with their educational background, thus, that impacts on their individual work experience. Similarly, an IT consultant and software engineer may sound similar, yet, their work stations are different.
Specifically, an IT consultant performs the below mentioned
roles: -
- Design
Engineering
- Program
Management
- Project
Management
Let’s discuss about the differences or similarities: -
- An IT Consultant looks after
the technology from the business perspective. They work for a company’s latest
technology trends, innovate what kind of systems to be installed, and best
practices. Thus, they help clients to make better business experience,
helps to achieve business target, meet the customers need. Whereas, a
Software engineer takes approval of any technical specification and then implement
the same to get things working.
- An IT Consultant is
responsible to add/delete any features from the app specification as per the
requirement of target customer/audience, to meet the organizational goal,
market competitive study and ROI. In a way, an IT consultant is directly
involved with market. On the side, a software engineer is not directly
involved with the market performances, rather they are more concerned about
implementing the approved features specification within the stipulated
time period.
- The IT consultant uses software
for the purpose of security, maintainability, scalability, ease of usage
and performance. And a software engineer give priority to write functional
code, as a result, security, performance etc, get neglected.
- An IT consultant is
responsible to simulating traffic and thus conduct client/server-side
latency and load measurements. This process helps to optimize code by
improving data structures, DB schema and algorithms. Whereas, This
activity does not comes within the realm of a Software Developer’s role.
It takes a lot of additional time, on the top any coding activities of
actual features.
- An IT consultant plays the role of a Project
Manager to manage timelines, resources, schedule and project scope. Aside,
for a software developer it is difficult to stay updated with the project
status, so it is not his/her forte.
A company
requires both an IT business consultant and software engineer. As both play their role individually as
require.
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