Have you considered DATA ENGINEERING?

Kate Strachnyi
2 min readJul 30, 2021

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I know data scientist is one of the ‘hottest’ job titles out there; but have you considered becoming a Data Engineer?

According to a KDNuggets article I read this morning — “there are 70% more open roles at companies in data engineering as compared to data science.”

What’s the difference between a data scientist & data engineer? It’s really helpful to review the data science hierarchy of needs — created by Monica Rogati

You’ll notice above that data engineers focus on moving & storing data — they implement reliable data flow, set up infrastructure pipelines, ETL, and take care of structured and unstructured data storage.

If you’re interested in building up your data engineering skills — check out Andreas Kretz’ Learn Data Engineering Academy — he offers several courses + coaching. Take a look at his Roadmap below to see what is on the learning schedule.

Have you considered becoming a data engineer?

Stay DATAcated!

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Kate Strachnyi
Kate Strachnyi

Written by Kate Strachnyi

Founder of DATAcated | Author | Ultra-Runner | Mom of 2

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