It’s not surprising that Data Engineers are in high demand. Their skills are greatly needed as companies deal with a deluge of data sources. And let’s face it…it’s not easy to acquire those skills.
You’ve got to prioritize the most important ones. But be smart about it too. Some skills require massive training and expertise–but if you know the shortcuts, you can accomplish in a few minutes what might otherwise take months.
The following chart provides a sampling of some of the top skills and responsibilities described in LinkedIn Blog Posts, as well as the associated tools, and available resources for quickly ramping up on those skills.
…and, we’ve also included a few shortcuts that allow you to expedite some of the more resource-intensive processes:
Skill | Tools | Sources for Education | Shortcuts |
Build and maintain an enterprise data warehouse with cloud-based technologies | Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery, IBM Db2, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse | University of Colorado (Coursera): Data Warehousing for Business Intelligence Specialization | |
Cloud data storage | AWS, Azure, IBM Cloud | LinkedIn Learning–AWS Storage and Data Management IBM — Introduction to Storage CBT Nuggets–Google Cloud Storage Online Training | No shortcuts |
Building and maintain critical ETL processes | Talend, SSIS, Panoply | ||
Data Visualization | Tableau, PowerBI, Looker, Domo | LinkedIn Learning–Data Visualization: Storytelling | |
Database design | SQL Server Database Modeler, Lucidchart | No shortcuts | |
Expertise in SQL | SQL Server, OracleDB, MySQL, DbSchema, Visual Paradigm | W3Schools–SQL Tutorial Codecademy–LearnSQL | |
Scripting languages for ETL | Python, Perl, Bash |
ETL skills are a HOT commodity…
You may have picked up on a few of our not-so-subtle hints that ETL is a big deal for data warehouse engineers.
ETL is a complicated, lengthy and messy process, and a lot can go wrong. And even the most passionate Data Engineer may wish that they could close their eyes and ‘make it go away’, and focus on more fun parts of the job.
Want to learn about how you can create data pipelines and virtual warehouses without ETL? Promethium can SHOW YOU HOW.
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