What is data platform engineering?

Question

Could someone tell me what is Data Platform Engineering?

Answer 1

Data Platform Engineering is a process of completing various projects, which involves orchestrating pipelines by using modern Big Data tools and architectures, to design and engineer existing transaction processing systems. The professional who does what is described above is called a Data Platform Engineer. These professionals help in automating lots of redundant jobs that Data Engineer, Data Scientist, and even Data Analyst had to do. They make the platform ready with the required tools, for them to work with along with processing data to a state from which a Data Scientist could work efficiently to harness insights.

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