BIG DATA

CAREER GUIDE
A Comprehensive Playbook
To Becoming A Big Data Engineer
 OVERVIEW

BECOME A
PART OF THE
BIG DATA UPRISING
Over the last few years, technology has evolved at a Read this Big Data Playbook for a personalized
rapid pace, enabling faster changes and processes. roadmap to a successful Big Data career, and take a
With the emergence of diverse technologies, sneak peek into the world that awaits you.
skilled professionals can deepen their knowledge
to become specialists in several fields or seek new
career paths in these fields. This is particularly true
of Big Data, where the types of jobs are increasing
as the rate of data generated each day rises
exponentially.

New-age technologies aren’t just bringing in

zettabytes of data, but changing the very nature of
handling and processing data. For professionals with
the right skill set, the Big Data market offers plenty
of job opportunities and lucrative salaries. 2020 is
going to be an exciting time for professionals to stay
current with tech trends and acquire cutting-edge
technology skills.

Simplilearn’s 2020 Big Data Playbook is your

complete guide to the skills required, career
opportunities available and the ideal learning path
to propel a career in the thriving and lucrative field
of Big Data. Our Playbook also provides the most
trending technologies, the top companies that are
hiring, and ways to jumpstart your career.

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 INDUSTRY UPDATE

MARKET
STUDY FOR
BIG DATA
ENTHUSIASTS
What’s Next for Big Data The Expanding Field of Big Data
Big Data has taken the world by storm. Everything Organizations are using Big Data to enhance
in today’s cloud-based business world moves fast, their products, business decisions, and marketing
effectiveness. The Big Data applications market is
producing and compiling data at a rapid rate. The
expected to grow from $5.3 billion in 2018 to $19.4
possibilities (and potential pitfalls) of managing billion by 2026. Career opportunities in the field are
and utilizing data operations are endless with new limitless, and professionals with big data expertise
applications of Big Data being discovered every will continue to drive the technology revolution.
day—creating jobs across sectors and giving rise to
new career paths..

Big Data in Different Industries

Finance Education
The field of Big Data and related technologies are
drastically changing the way business is done across
all industry sectors. These edge technologies are Healthcare Manufacturing
gradually bringing about transformational changes,
and faster processes across sectors, and with it,
numerous opportunities for career enhancement. Retail Transportation

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 TOP JOB ROLE AND SKILLS

HOTTEST
OPPORTUNITIES
IN BIG DATA
Big Data Engineer Top Companies Hiring Big Data Professionals
As a Big Data Engineer, you’ll design, create, test
and maintain the data management and processing
systems.

Build highly scalable, robust and fault-tolerant

systems, and discover data acquisition
opportunities

Create data models to reduce system

complexities, and introduce new data
management tools into the existing systems to
make them more efficient

Career opportunities for Big Data professionals

The average salary for a Big Data
have grown exponentially to meet the demands of
Engineer is $89,838
digitally transformed industries, and newer job roles
keep emerging in the field.

Top 10 Big Data Skills:

Data Mining Python C++ Java Hadoop

Data Visualization Probability and Quantitative Apache NoSQL

Statistics Analysis Models Spark

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 LEARNING PATH

MAP TO
YOUR FUTURE Learn about the popular
operating systems on which
Big Data tools run

Operating Systems
Windows | Linux |
Mac OS

Get an in-depth understanding of

programming languages to process
data easily and efficiently

Programming
Java | C++ | Python
Learn to write SQL
queries which are
needed to optimally Study the ETL tools critical to aggregation
manage data in and analysis of unstructured data from
databases different sources

DBMS and SQL ETL and

My SQL | Warehousing Tools
Microsoft SQL Server | Process and analyze Informatica | Talend |
Oracle Database large volumes of data Pentaho
with a thorough
knowledge of Hadoop
and Spark

Hadoop and Spark Frameworks

HDFS | MapReduce | Hive

Understand how to analyze

existing data, and discover
patterns for creating
predictive data models

Big Data
Engineer
Data Mining and Modelling
R | Rapid Miner |
KNIME

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