{"id":7578,"date":"2023-04-03T07:00:02","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T05:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vonconsulting.ro\/in-search-of-a-job-where-experience-beats-education-you-landed-right-big-data-engineer\/"},"modified":"2023-04-03T07:05:13","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T05:05:13","slug":"in-search-of-a-job-where-experience-beats-education-you-landed-right-big-data-engineer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vonconsulting.ro\/ro\/in-search-of-a-job-where-experience-beats-education-you-landed-right-big-data-engineer\/","title":{"rendered":"In Search of a Job Where Experience Beats Education?… You Landed Right: Big Data Engineer"},"content":{"rendered":"

The software engineering field is weird. Truly weird. One would certainly expect to hear that for hiring a nanny, a maid, a cook, a painter, a mechanical engineer, a graphic designer\u2026 or similar education is not key, while EXPERIENCE IS, but to hear this when one would like to get hired in the big data engineering field\u2026. well, this is not-so-expected!<\/p>\n

\u2026 Yet this is right.<\/p>\n

Big data engineering is not a job one could do by learning in class or by buying subscriptions to some online classes. Say you do not expect to be a brilliant data engineer and are satisfied with being a lousy one \u2013 education alone would still not suffice.<\/p>\n

To become a big data engineer one needs to be passionate about math, problem-solving, numbers, charts, graphs and \u2013 certainly \u2013 about IT. One becomes a real data engineer only after certain hands-on experience: this might be the most important difference between software engineers: while programming could be an incipient exercise, proper data engineering would not.<\/p>\n

\u2026Before we elaborate, let us clarify two related concepts: what is \u2018big data\u2019 and what is \u2018data analyst\u2019 (as this sounds pretty similar with data engineer).<\/p>\n

Big data refers to extremely large data sets that are commonly \u2013 or purposely – collected by companies while conducting their business operations. When used correctly, big data can be highly beneficial for organizations in improving efficiency, profitability and scalability. However, companies’ big data is not helpful unless there is a big data engineer to build systems to collect, maintain and extract data. With these, a data analyst generates insights, using various predictive models(while a data analyst is recommended to have some coding experience, this is not a sine-qua-non<\/em> condition).<\/p>\n

Compared to a data analyst, a big data engineer is primarily responsible for building and maintaining the systems and processes that collect and extract data. So one is the miner, the other is the grinder. <\/strong>As simple as that. No wonder that data scientists, machine learning engineers and big data engineers rank in top emerging jobs in LinkedIn these days, despite AI proliferation and potential threats that some say AI \u2013 such as GPT4 of OpenAI or Ernie of Baidu \u2013 will bring tomorrow (almost literally, tomorrow).<\/p>\n

Some typical job responsibilities of a big data engineer are creating systems for collecting data and for processing that respective data; creating data architectures that meet the requirements of the business; using Extract Transform Load operations (the so-called \u2018ETL process\u2019); creating structured data solutions using various programming languages and tools and mining data from multiple areas to construct efficient business models.<\/p>\n

The collaborative approach of a big data engineer having to perform these responsibilities is self-implied, of which the most important one is with data scientists. The way these two key functions in companies dealing with big data work together and are aligned towards the same objective could be a \u2018make it or break it\u2019 for the company\u2019s performance.\u00a0 As such, hiring a professional and well-experienced big data engineer is a very important task (please follow regularly our updated open positions for such functions here: https:\/\/www.vonconsulting.ro\/jobs\/<\/a>).<\/p>\n

It is not common for big data engineers to possess all of the following skills:<\/p>\n