Job titles

One of the many great things about Kraftwerk is their modesty: they call themselves ‘music-workers’ rather than musicians. Notice the contrast with some of these extravagant descriptions, all for recently advertised jobs:

‘Collaboration Platform Solutions Architect’ (Cisqo Systems). The ad helpfully explains that someone with such a job: “correlates business issues around technology and processes and is able to create an architectural solution specific to a given customer or segment [and is] able to articulate this vision across executives and stakeholders and works across broad team of engineers to ensures a systems approach to the integrity of the customer solution which includes multiple technologies across the network and application layers.”

‘Integrated Solutions Development Manager’ (Verizon, Reading). Duties include to: “work with GS Client Partner, Enterprise Architect and Integration Architect to assess opportunity and develop win strategy and optimise solution; Work with GS in determining resource requirements and gaining Executive buy-in; Take ownership for developing solutions to complex customer requirements.”

‘User Experience Architect’ (B&Q, Southampton). Working in the ‘Multi Channel team’, the successful applicant will: “Conduct... user research to assess needs and define user journey, Create requirement documents, sitemaps, process flow diagrams, information architecture and wireframes...”