Why do organisations hire data engineers?
For the last few years, there’s been a huge buzz around data science and data analytics, which isn’t surprising given that today’s forward-thinking companies are becoming more and more data-driven. But these high-profile professionals operating at the front-end of data are highly dependent on data engineers working on innovative data solutions in the background. That’s why many businesses now hire a data engineer from Dufrain.
Data engineering is an essential skillset for any organisation’s enterprise analytics team. These professionals are responsible for managing, optimising, overseeing, and monitoring data retrieval, storage and distribution across the entire organisation.
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Data engineering solutions are effectively implemented by data engineers with a very broad set of technical skills, making them technology agnostic. This means they can choose the right technology for the project in hand, so you won’t be tied-in to a particular technology solution. They should also have excellent communication skills and an inherent ability to understand precisely what CXOs are looking to achieve with their organisation’s big data.
Data engineering is the BI & analytics enabler
Data analysts and business intelligence specialists are primarily concerned with uncovering insights and meaning from the huge amounts of data that are being generated day in day out by businesses. However, this increasing amount of big data also requires huge amounts of preparation in terms of collecting, cleaning and organising prior to any analytics being carried out. For many organisations that don’t have a data engineer, data analysts spend up to half their time on this mission-critical preparation phase. (And they don’t mind telling us this is the least favourite part of their job.)
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The good news is Dufrain’s data engineering consultants can pick up the preparation phase and give data analysts all that time back. Data engineers fully understand why business analysts and data scientists need data to deliver insights, and they can build data pipelines to make sure high quality data is delivered in the right format and is easily accessible for whoever needs to access it. Our data engineers are business intelligence and analytics enablers.
Data engineers are focused on enterprise growth
Within any modern organisation, data covers all aspects of the business. There’s big data concerned with products, services, employees, networks, and all other organisational elements, and these data sets can be used many times a day to fuel decisions for the good of the business. But as the amount of big data continues to grow at rapid rates, the need for a data engineer becomes more urgent.
A key part of the data engineer’s remit is to manage and maintain a futureproof data infrastructure that is not only scalable enough to grow with the organisation, but will help to drive that business growth through faster, more insightful business decisions that provide a competitive edge.
Data engineers will keep your data flowing
Another key aspect of data engineering is building data pipelines to transform raw data into high-quality data that can be used for BI and analytics, applications, machine learning (ML) and AI. Data pipelines effectively keep data flowing throughout the organisation.
With the right data pipelines, your business will gain access to real-time analytics, and anyone in your team can rapidly innovate – by testing their ideas, failing fast, and quickly moving on to the next innovation.
More reasons to hire data engineers
You could hire a data engineer if you’re looking to:
- Use your data to address business challenges
- Build and maintain your data infrastructure to answer questions and improve processes
- Work closely with data analytics and business intelligence teams to develop data models and pipelines for research, reporting, and machine learning
- Be an advocate for best practices and continued learning in the field of data
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