Data center technician lead vs lead technician

The differences between data center technician leads and lead technicians can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. It typically takes 1-2 years to become both a data center technician lead and a lead technician. Additionally, a data center technician lead has an average salary of $128,891, which is higher than the $90,615 average annual salary of a lead technician.

The top three skills for a data center technician lead include infrastructure, cloud and java. The most important skills for a lead technician are java, architecture, and digital transformation.

Data center technician lead vs lead technician overview

	Data Center Technician Lead	Lead Technician
Yearly salary	$128,891	$90,615
Hourly rate	$61.97	$43.56
Growth rate	5%	10%
Number of jobs	118,299	250,590
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 43%	Bachelor's Degree, 50%
Average age	43	42
Years of experience	2	2

Data center technician lead vs lead technician salary

Data center technician leads and lead technicians have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Data Center Technician Lead	Lead Technician
Average salary	$128,891	$90,615
Salary range	Between $76,000 And $217,000	Between $67,000 And $121,000
Highest paying City	-	San Francisco, CA
Highest paying state	-	California
Best paying company	-	Meta
Best paying industry	-	Retail

Differences between data center technician lead and lead technician education

There are a few differences between a data center technician lead and a lead technician in terms of educational background:

	Data Center Technician Lead	Lead Technician
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 43%	Bachelor's Degree, 50%
Most common major	Business	Computer Science
Most common college	Stanford University	Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Data center technician lead vs lead technician demographics

Here are the differences between data center technician leads' and lead technicians' demographics:

	Data Center Technician Lead	Lead Technician
Average age	43	42
Gender ratio	Male, 86.9% Female, 13.1%	Male, 83.4% Female, 16.6%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 8.5% Unknown, 5.1% Hispanic or Latino, 12.2% Asian, 11.8% White, 62.1% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.3%	Black or African American, 10.4% Unknown, 5.3% Hispanic or Latino, 15.1% Asian, 15.1% White, 53.6% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.4%
LGBT Percentage	9%	11%

Differences between data center technician lead and lead technician duties and responsibilities

Data center technician lead example responsibilities.

Recommend, engineer and manage office systems, including centralize productivity and communication systems such as e-mail and centralize desktop environments.
Install & setup BPCS & 3rd party ERP applications.
Provide first line defense by providing customer with support on hosting, HTML, FTP, POP3 issues.
Support various web-base applications, LAN/WAN connections and various media devices (FTP programs, PDAs and Smartphone's).
Set appropriate recovery model for SQL databases to maximize space used, depending on the type of data in the database.
Back up terabyte databases and perform restores and run consistency checks from SQL standby servers prior to making changes in production.

Lead technician example responsibilities.

Manage and support the Cisco base corporate remote access VPN solution.
Manage the third party IP provider relationship and implement all the bridges between AXI4 and internal buses.
Used JIRA to manage the product backlog, tasks assignments, project burn-down rate and for velocity tracking purposes.
Manage product test support of new designs used for testing, write technical documentation in HTML improving department processes and procedures.
Manage customer functional areas of desktop support, field service, office services and network support to coordinate timely issue resolution.
Configure and manage JGroup multicasting communication for apache tomcat web servers.

Data center technician lead vs lead technician skills

Common data center technician lead skills

Infrastructure, 17%
Cloud, 13%
Java, 5%
Switches, 5%
Data Centers, 4%
Customer Service, 4%

Common lead technician skills

Java, 10%
Architecture, 7%
Digital Transformation, 6%
Customer Service, 6%
Database, 4%
HTML, 3%

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