You might require a UG degree in math, science, or computer science field to become a big data engineer. This degree helps to gain knowledge of programming, data mining, and querying the structured and unstructured data. Also, learn technologies such as Hadoop, MapReduce, Hive, SQL, MongoDB, and NoSQL to become a big data engineer. While pursuing this bachelor’s degree, you can enroll Big data certification course to learn all these technologies along with hands-on experience.