A day in the life of a data engineer

Breaking down the main activities of a data engineer in 2021

mehdio
Towards Data Science
5 min readApr 20, 2021

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Data engineering's role in 2021 has been scaling beyond the scope for a better or for worse. Therefore, multiple definitions of the role are popping up. Does the data engineer do more analytics (aka new role definition, analytics engineer), data pipelines, handling more infrastructure (DevOps), or…

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