5 Essential IT Skills for Data Engineers

Data engineers need the following skills. These skills help you get nice job in any analytics company.

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Five Top Skills Need

Skill-1

Experience working with big data tools such as MapReduce, Pig, Spark, Kafka and NoSQL data stores such as MongoDB, Cassandra, HBase, etc.

Skill-2

Expertise in multi-structured data modeling, reporting on NoSQL & structured database technologies such as HBase and Cassandra, SQL.

Skill-3

Experience with languages such as Python, Perl, Ruby, Java, Scala, R etc.

Skill-4

Strong data & visual presentation skills and ability to explain insights using tools like tableau, D3 charts or other tools.

Skill-5

Basic knowledge and experience of statistical analysis tools such as R.