Once called the “worst seat at the table” due to the amount of work on their plate, the role of the data engineer has developed into a multitude of offshoots. The rise of cloud computing and warehousing services killed off the database engineer and shifted the focus of data engineers towards managing data performance and reliability. This has further splintered off, giving rise to roles like the analytics engineer, “a role that straddles data engineering and data analytics, and applies an analytical, business-oriented approach to working with data.” Read full article here
