Cloud Transformation Officer
As companies move from the client-server world to one where systems reside in the cloud, they're hiring professionals to oversee the entire strategy.Whether the position's called director of cloud transformation, vice president of virtualization or cloud transformation officer, all of those titles are floating out there in the corporate world the job description remains roughly the same: Oversee all the moving parts required to make the move to the cloud.
Skills requiredCompanies are looking to hire people who can show that they've been able to plan, control and deliver complex, high-risk projects involving technology that's evolving even as the project is underway. They are looking for deep knowledge of the organization's applications and skills in negotiating with and managing vendors.
Once an organization successfully moves to the cloud, does the job go away? Given the complexity of the task, cloud transition managers can expect to stay busy for at least the next several years, before transitions are complete and the job morphs into one focused on maintenance.Chief Social Media Strategist
Companies of every size and stripe are implementing ever more ambitious strategies involving social media, so it's only logical that they need technologists who can make the most of their investments.Some of them are moving to hire people who understand both the marketing value of social media as well as its technical complexities, an acknowledgement that in most organizations social media has been under the purview of either ITor marketing. Now, some are putting a new crossbreed of talent into positions with titles like chief social media strategist, new media coordinator, and manager of social media.
The role isn't about sending out tweets and posting on Facebook all day, it's about leveraging technology to monitor online activity and interactions and to engage consumers.
Skills required
The ideal candidate is someone who has a strong background in business strategy and marketing with project management and business intelligence experience mixed in. Also, a technical background, with skills in HTML and Web development.If that order weren't tall enough, companies also want candidates with proven experience. Strong candidates would have solid experience in marketing and could demonstrate the ROI of their past marketing projects,
Data scientist
Big data is on the agenda of nearly every future-looking business organization, for good reason. Organizations are drowning in the amount of data that comes in, but much of it is siloed - they have the information, but can't find it.So enterprises need a new breed of worker who understands how to collect, interpret and analyze vast amounts of data in a way that's truly useful for making business decisions.
Skills required
Like many of the other hot jobs in IT, this specialty requires the right combination of business and technical skills. The ideal candidate needs to be familiar with analytics and marketing, as well as ultra-high-speed computing, data mining, statistics and artificial intelligence.
The ideal candidate is someone with an undergraduate degree in computer science and a master's in marketing with some operations management expertise. Health Information Expert
As healthcare becomes an ever larger and ever more computerized industry, technologists are needed who can optimize the acquisition, storage, retrieval and application of health-related data. Ideally, health informatics experts will understand not only IT but the unique needs of the clinical care community.Skills required
Like many of the other hot jobs in IT, this specialty requires the right combination of business and technical skills within a health care practice. 
