Awarded Skills

The International Master of EPITA is characterized by the validation of 6 global competences that include:

C1 Carrying out functional studies through specifications

  • Understanding user needs and activities,
  • Understanding the environment and the functioning of the client company,
  • Design and model an application's architecture,
  • Participate in project management,
  • Design and conduct workshops for user requirements,
  • Conduct interviews with users,
  • Prepare user guides and technical documentation,
  • Prepare and conduct a meeting.

C2 Organization, monitoring and validation of IT developments following the requirements

  • Monitor compliance with the specifications and its level of required compliance,
  • Establish a reporting system (activity reports),
  • Monitor project risks,
  • Follow a forecasted budget,
  • Follow a development schedule,
  • Conduct a reporting meeting,
  • Speak in public.

C3 Designing IT solutions on issues and in complex environments

  • Identify the technical and detailed characteristics of application and model them,
  • Prepare detailed specifications,
  • Code and test in the chosen language,
  • Respect the rules of programming methodology and quality assurance,
  • Perform prototyping,
  • Write documentation,
  • Develop test cases,
  • Maintenance and upgrading.

C4 Monitoring the implementation of IT solutions

  • Conduct requirements analysis,
  • Write specifications (specifications, requirements, quality, time, cost ...),
  • Establish, develop and manage a team and mediate conflicts,
  • Implement all the indicators for monitoring and management of project,
  • Establish and follow a budget,
  • Establish and follow a development schedule,
  • Conduct meetings and perform redaction,
  • Know-how of reporting.

C5 Cross-border management

  • Being flexible,
  • Having a positive attitude towards change,
  • Learn quickly to integrate into professional and social environment,
  • Squeeze in a context where the notions of time, values, functions are different,
  • Adapt to the working methods of different stakeholder groups,
  • Learn behavior consistency conforming to the cultural code of others,
  • Respect others and their values, without being judgmental,
  • Manage multicultural teams (country, age, skills ...).

C6 Technical and organizational expertise in an IT domain with industrial experience

N.B. - The know-how of this global competence (C6) depends on the specialization chosen by the student:

Specialization: "Information Systems Management"

  • Educate management on technological developments and on contributions of IT,
  • Understand customer needs (internal or external),
  • Build technical and business strategy of IT projects,
  • Manage implementation,
  • Develop communication on IT projects internally and externally,
  • Take the lead in change,
  • Establish audit, study and advice on IT developments.

Specialization: "Software Engineering"

  • Write functional specifications,
  • Model business processes,
  • Design and application of functional mapping,
  • Develop scenarios and / or technical prototypes,
  • Drive the development teams,
  • Design and write a plan of integration,
  • Write technical documents.

Specialization: "Computer Security"

  • Define objectives and needs of security policy,
  • Analyze the risks and threats and assess the consequences,
  • Prepare and implement safety procedures,
  • Achieve the security controls defined in the quality plan,
  • Perform security audits to determine the vulnerability of the company,
  • Perform a technology watch.

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About EPITA

With its inception in 1984, EPITA (Graduate School of Computer Science and Advanced Technologies) is the Engineering School training the best experts who design, develop and improve the future Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). The pedagogy of the school focuses on giving students both the fundamentals of Engineering and the highest expertise in the fields of Computer Science and ICT. The International Master's degree delivered by EPITA is accredited by the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research as a "Diplôme National de Master".