Tasks and tools for data engineer profiles
Data engineers have a key role in a modern data organization. It is a multidisciplinary role, so it needs knowledge of programming, data transformation, and mathematics, among other areas. To support these important activities, there are several open source and Azure-native tools to help data engineers perform their day-to-day operations.
Tasks of the data engineer
The following are some examples of tasks that are the responsibility of the data engineer:
- Developing data ingestion pipelines
- Setting connectivity standards in data sources with proper security and latency
- Maintaining data pipelines creating scripts for data structures with versioning control
- Applying modern data exploration languages and libraries to generate insights
- Supporting database administrators in the necessary analytical database maintenance routines
- Modeling and implementing data consumption structures aligned with the business area...
