Career roadmap: Data engineer

Data engineering combines elements of software engineering and data science and is one of the fastest-growing roles in IT. According to Indeed.com, data engineers develop and maintain the architecture used in data science projects. They are responsible for ensuring that data flows between servers and applications uninterrupted.

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Data engineers must be familiar with a range of operating systems and databases and able to write and program software. They are …

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