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It's the least defined role. Currently, I am in a funny situation when all teams agree we need an additional data engineer. But basically: - Sales and finance
by kozikow 3y ago
It's the least defined role.
Currently, I am in a funny situation when all teams agree we need an additional data engineer. But basically:
- Sales and finance want more of business intelligence analyst
- Devs want more of a backend engineer
- ML researchers want a data analyst proficient in ETL to do pipelines on the training dataset
All of those 3 have only one thing in common - they need to know SQL very well. I've worked extensively with various technologies to analyze data - pandas, sql, spark. And still, I find SQL (especially recently BigQuery) getting me what I want the quickest.
- bomewish 3y agoI’m puzzled by this. Knowing SQL seems like a minor technical matter. You can learn whatever you need to do (or use gpt4 to quickly do stuff). Why does one need the expertise in syntax rather than just a general strong foundation in software and data stuff?