How to become a Green IT Consultant?
How to become a green IT consultant?
A diploma of baccalaureate level + 5 minimum is generally required to exercise the profession of green IT consultant although there is not yet any training really dedicated to this profession:
The profession of green IT consultant calls on several skills and qualities:
- have extensive knowledge of sustainable development and renewable energies;
- master the IT environment and cloud solutions;
- know how to work in project mode;’being attentive to customer needs;
- have very good communication skills;
- be a good teacher;
- demonstrate insight;
- be organized ;
- knowing how to impose one’s convictions and decisions;
- conduct an active watch.
Work conditions
The green IT consultant works on behalf of a client company or internally. He must be attentive and adaptable. He masters project management and proposes solutions in accordance with customer needs. His working hours are standard office hours.
The salary of a green IT consultant
The salary of a green IT consultant can vary greatly, as the profession is also very different from one company to another and from one sector of activity to another. As a beginner, a green IT consultant earns between 2,600 and 3,500 euros gross per month. After a few years of experience, his remuneration can be between 3,000 and 4,000 euros gross. As a senior consultant, his salary can reach 4,500 euros gross per month.
The development prospects of a green IT consultant
A green IT consultant can progress to a position of director of sustainable development, director of sustainable development strategy, or even director of information systems. Eventually, he may also decide to create his own consulting company.
A few years ago, no IT director cared about the ecological impact of his digital. Thanks to several studies and new regulations, this impact is now known to everyone. The criteria for launching new projects are no longer only financial but also ecological. It is important to understand that responsible green IT or digital is not intended to abolish new technologies but rather to make reasoned choices, taking into account the negative impacts induced and advocating an approach of sobriety. Do we really need to store terabytes of data indefinitely, can we not design such an application differently so that it consumes less energy? These are the types of questions that all digital professions must now face: developers, architects, directors.
The ecological transition cannot take place without the entire ecosystem. This is one of the guiding principles of the recovery plan: supporting both the transition of large companies having to rethink their products and services responsibly and the creation of start-ups, a real source of external innovation to accelerate this transition. Green IT consultants will have the heavy task of supporting IT directors in this transition to responsible digital: assessing the ecological impact of digital, defining an ambitious strategy, eco-designing future applications, controlling the volume of data, rationalize infrastructures, train employees, … and to do this identify innovative solutions from green-tech start-ups to take a step ahead!
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