Data engineer

A data engineer designs and builds data pipelines for collecting, storing, and processing data efficiently.

They ensure that data is readily available for analysis and decision-making.

Data engineers must be adaptable and skilled in working with different data types and formats.

Their role often involves integrating data from various sources.

What does a Data engineer do?

• Design data pipelines that process data from source systems to storage and analysis platforms
  
  
• Integrate data from multiple sources
  
  
• Data transformation: Cleaning, enriching, and structuring raw data
  
  
• Database management to ensure data quality and security
  
  
• Data security and compliance

Example of work as a Data engineer

An e-commerce company wants to implement a real-time analytics platform.

A data engineer is needed to design data pipelines that extract data in real-time from the website, mobile app, point-of-sale systems, and customer service interactions.

The data engineer configures and manages a real-time data streaming technology to ingest data.

The data arrives from different sources in various formats, so the data engineer creates transformation logic to convert and standardize data. He also decides on a data storage solution and implements security measures.

When everything is ready, he works with data analysts to create dashboards and continuously monitors the data pipelines to keep it running smoothly.

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