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Senior Data Engineer | Data is beautiful

As a #dataengineer / #softwareengineer in this current #jobmarket has been an interesting one. I have developed some insights that should have some light shined on. 1) We do not need actual #snowflake or #databricks experience to work with those systems. As long as a candidate has suitable experience with other #datawarehousing technology: #redshift, #bigquery or #azure and understand the fundamentals we can easily transition to Snowflake or DataBricks. 2) Technology between the main Cloud stacks are similar just with different terminology: #lambda -> #cloudfunctions, #sqs -> #pubsub, #s3 -> #gcs, etc. engineers can easily #adapt to a new system. When I joined Mythical Games it was my first interaction with GCP; as soon as I knew the terminology I knew everything I needed to do. 3) Scale can be a real problem and many teams do not design or understand how to handle when getting to some extreme levels of scale. As someone who recently learned this dealing going from multiple Terabytes an hour does not compare to Petabytes an hour. As not every role will cross certain scale thresholds we all still need to understand how to re-architect and anticipate those potential levels. Now these thresholds could cause an entire rethinking of pipelines but a good #engineering team can handle it. 4) Within #data the blame game needs to stop or shoved downstream as a long term solution. This only adds processing or data cleansing. IF a fault from upstream data is found it is the job of the team to work with stakeholders to fix the issue now and then with the upstream team for a more long term solution. 5- Data/ #analytics is not cheap… I have come to think of it as an investment as alternative energy is. Large upfront costs but in the long term pays for itself. The #insights and gains that can be found from data already collected is immense. Now there does need to be limits to data spend there still needs to be investment into it. That is my opinion and what I have seen during this past 9 months while looking for my next role. #jobsearch #lookingforwork #notgivingup

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