Average salary: $132,653
A data engineer is not the one who analyzes data but manages a company’s data infrastructure. Hence, their job requires a lot of software development and programming skills and a lot less statistical analysis.
He is responsible for building certain data infrastructure to get the sales and marketing data to data analysts and data scientists in a usable format for further analysis.
For example, if a company starts to generate a huge amount of data from different sources, a data engineer will be responsible to organize the collection of information, it’s processing and storage.
Skills needed to become a data engineer:
- Building and designing large-scale applications
- Database architecture and data warehousing
- Data modeling and mining
- Statistical modeling and regression analysis
- Programming languages: R, SAS, Python, C/C++, Java, MatLab
- Hadoop-based analytics, such as HBase, Hive, Pig, and MapReduce
- Operating systems, especially UNIX, Linux, and Solaris
- Machine learning and Scikit-learn
- Advanced SQL skills
Other than these three job roles, there are some other job titles in the field of data science that you can have.