The precursor of data engineer was often called ETL Analyst, Data Integration Analyst or Specialist, or even just Data Analyst, to name a few. I also saw Data

The precursor of data engineer was often called ETL Analyst, Data Integration Analyst or Specialist, or even just Data Analyst, to name a few. I also saw Data Integration Developer or similar before. I have always thought, are you an architect, analyst, scientist, engineer or developer? The difference between the last two often being experience and rigor.