
AI Skills for IT Teams — Practical Guide
A concise, vendor-neutral overview of the specialist AI domains your IT function actually needs — with clear hire vs upskill guidance, core skill sets, and tool examples you can implement now.
Who its for
CIOs, Heads of Engineering, IT Operations and Security leaders who need to build or adapt AI-ready teams.
Covers both core and specialist roles across enterprise environments.
Inside the download
- Eight specialist domains
— Data Engineering & Infrastructure
— MLOps & Model Deployment
— AI/ML Cloud Architecture
— Data Science & Advanced Analytics
— AI Governance & Compliance
— Generative AI Specialisations
— AI Agent Development & Management
— AI Security & Risk Management - Hire if … / Upskill if … indicators for each domain
- Core skills and representative tools for every area
- Example team topologies and hand-offs between roles
- Short definitions you can brief HR or partners with
What you will be able to do
- Decide which AI capabilities to hire vs develop internally
- Write accurate skill and role requirements for HR and vendors
- Align architecture, data, security and delivery teams around AI initiatives
- Identify gaps in existing cloud, data or DevOps roles
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