Why You Should Become A Data Engineer And Not A Data Scientist

Picking The Right Career

Data Science is a career path that many people are currently choosing based on an essay written a decade ago. Yes, it has been almost ten years since the Harvard Business Review essay was published, yet we are all still choosing Data Science as a professional path. However, if you read through LinkedIn recently, you will notice that many people have posted that they are recovering data scientists who have now become data engineers.

Many of us are drawn into the subject of Data Science just to realize it isn’t for us finally. And, while there is some gatekeeping around Data Engineering, it appears that many people who have initially been data scientists eventually switched over to Data Engineering.

What may be the reason for this? In this blog post, I hope to help you avoid the whole transition from data scientist to data engineer by giving you a few fundamental reasons why you should become a data engineer rather than a data scientist.

Disclaimer: Some who read the title of this article might assume this is some form of:

“We Don’t Need Data Scientists” or “Data Engineering Is Better Than Data Science” type article. That’s not the purpose of this article. It is meant to discuss why someone may…