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Career Opportunities in Data Engineering

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In this video, we will learn

about career opportunities in data engineering. To start with, let’s get a high-
level view
of this job market as cited in some of the popular and credible sources in the
industry.
According to LinkedIn’s 2020 Emerging Jobs Report, data engineering now joins
machine
learning and data science as one of the top-10 “jobs experiencing tremendous
growth”
in the U.S., with industries from retail to automotive taking notice and making
this hard-to-hire
talent a part of their teams. Dice Tech Job Report of 2020 lists data engineering
as the fastest growing tech occupation with a year-over-year growth of 50%. And
with more
and more companies competing to find the right talent for their expanding data
infrastructure,
it is expected to grow even further in years to come.
The report goes on to identify Healthcare, Technology, and Consulting as the three
fields
with the largest need for data science talent as a whole, including data
engineering. Though
no industry in the coming times, says the report, is going to be untouched by this
discipline.
Data engineering jobs are listed as one of the top 10 jobs in Glassdoor’s best jobs
in America for 2020. The criteria for the listing includes earning potential, job
satisfaction
ratings, and number of job openings. There is a wide variety of job roles available
for data engineers. Job titles are fluid, and
a data engineering role can look a little different at every company.
Typically, data engineering roles in organizations tend to break the specialization
up into Data
Architecture, Database Design and Architecture, Data Platforms, Data Pipelines and
ETL, Data
Warehouses, and Big Data. The roles may all be labeled generically as
“Data Engineers” or carry specific titles such as Data Architect, Database
Architect,
ETL Engineer, Data Warehouse Engineer, and Big Data Engineer. If your organization
wants
you to focus on implementing and managing a cloud-based data lake, for example,
your
job title probably will be Data Lake Engineer. But in each of these niche openings,
knowledge
of operating systems, languages, databases, and infrastructure components, such as
virtual
machines, networking, and application services, would be a given expectation. As
also data’s
potential application in business. It may also be that you get an opportunity
to work on the whole data engineering lifecycle at once, typically in a small team
or startup
that is just starting to build their data engineering practice. But as the practice
grows, a multidisciplinary engineering team would start to take shape. If you are
part of an organization that has set up a data engineering practice, then you will
likely start your journey as an Associate (or Junior) Data Engineer and work your
way up through Data Engineer, Senior Data Engineer, Lead Data Engineer, and
Principal Data Engineer roles. Growing up the ranks could be a bit like navigating
a matrix. You will be required to not only expand your skills in your niche but
also
branch into other areas of data engineering. For example, from being a Data
Architect to
gaining a functional understanding, if not hands-on experience, of data warehouses,
data
lakes, data pipelines, and the ETL process. Growth in data engineering is
characterized
not only by the expanse of tools and technologies that you understand and can work
with but
also how much of the big picture you’re able to see in the data engineering
lifecycle. Your communication skills, your ability to
collaborate with diverse technical and business stakeholders, your operational or
project
management skills—all need to be growing progressively in order for you to grow
into
lead positions. As a lead, you will handle growing responsibilities.
Such as spending more time on converting business requirements into technical
specifications
and being the bridge between what business wants and what technical teams develop.
You
would also be evaluating and weighing in on the tools and platforms that you should
be
using as a team. And gaining greater responsibility for implementing systems,
processes, and tools
for ensuring data quality, data privacy, and compliance with regulations. Now let’s
look at a few of the emerging
roles in the field. Big Data Engineers and Machine Learning Engineers are couple of
emerging
roles that require specialized skills in addition to basic data engineering.
Big Data Engineers work with big data stores, platforms, and processing tools like
Hadoop
and Spark. They specialize in the management of big data pipelines, and movement
and processing
of data at scale. Machine Learning Engineers design and implement
machine learning algorithms, and work with large datasets of structured and
unstructured
data. This role is an intersection of data engineering and data science and AI
skills. In this video, you learned about
some of the career opportunities in the field of data engineering.
To grow as a data engineer, you will need to constantly learn and implement new
tools
and technologies as they emerge. And you will also need to be a curious and aware
team member.

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