Salary of a Senior Data Engineer
The next Step for a Data Engineer or better change the Domain?
Data engineers provide companies with data by taking it from source systems via data pipelines using ETL or ELT processes and then transferring it to the target platform, e.g. a Data Warehouse, Data Lake or Data Lakehouse. From there, the data can be further processed by Business Analysts, Data Scientists and Machine Learning Engineers. Data Engineers can advance to Senior Data Engineers after a few years of experience. In the following, I will show you which tasks Data Engineers take on and what salary they earn. Alternatively, Data Engineers can also change their career path and become Data Scientists, Machine Learning Engineers or Product Owners.
Skills and Experiences you need
A Data Engineer should have the following skills — the senior Data Engineer has similar tasks, but often acts more as a supervisor and team manager of several Data Engineers.
- Probably you will need a computer science, mathematics, physics or a similar degree including practical working experience in a similar role.
- Years of practical experience with big data architectures like Data Warehouses, Data Lakes or Data Lakehouses.
- Experience in cloud infrastructures…
