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I've been working within a company a while as a Support agent, but have now reached the point were I've developed enough technical and soft skills to have my manager accept that my current job title no longer reflects my work.

In order to formalize things a little, I've been asked to join a project team where I'll be working on a variety of technical and non-technical work. For example, some tasks that have been lined-up so far include:

  • Programming/Dev work
  • Maintaining internal tools
  • Analysis and requirements gathering

I need to come up with a job title, but am having difficult finding something that reflects all of the above without being exclusively any of the above. I'm relativity inexperienced so feel consultant might be a bit overkill, but I am lost....

Any suggestions?

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Just remember to ask for a pay raise with that new title - your skills and responsibilites have expanded, so should your pay check. – HLGEM Jan 9 at 22:58
Titles are pointless. Like HLGEM said, the raise is the key. ;) – DA. Jan 10 at 2:54
@DA - I disagree - titles are an invaluable way to show potential employers your seniority (as you should never mention pay), so titles are very useful as career advancers. – Dibstar Jan 10 at 9:32
Depends on your profession, I suppose, but in IT and Design/Marketing titles have little-to-no consistency across companies so are mostly moot in terms of indicating anything specific. – DA. Jan 10 at 15:35
Sounds like programmer analyst to me – Chad Jan 10 at 19:14

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"Programmer/Systems Analyst" would be the general way for a title.

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The meanings of specific titles are going to vary company by company, as well as regionally.

I would consider what you described a "Software Engineer". You gather requirements for and write/maintain software. There are some regions where using the title "Engineer" will get you in hot water because it has a legal definition, so check your own area if that is common parlance.

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Yep. I'm in one of those regions. – user590903 Jan 9 at 22:57
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Or you could go with Developer – HLGEM Jan 9 at 22:58
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"Analyst/Programmer" (and then "Senior Analyst/Programmer") was my title for my first few jobs, and what you're doing sounds what I was doing.

Basically, it's intended to indicate that you're a programmer, but that you don't just sit in your box while people throw specs over the wall for you to turn into code. You gather requirements. You talk to business users, I assume. You analyse, and then you program.

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