At the SkillUp 2021, Sourav Saha, academic dean at Praxis Business School, and Prasad Srinivasa, assistant vice president at Genpact, spoke about the exciting career opportunities in data engineering.

Saha is an educator and an advanced analytics domain expert with around two decades of experience in business consulting, research and development. On the other hand, Srinivasa has over 20 years of experience in developing AI/ML solution frameworks and data analytics products for banking and financial institutions.

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In the age of content overload, organisations have to create personalised solutions to stay relevant and competitive. Companies are collecting a large amount of data — structured, semi-structured and unstructured — from multiple channels in different formats.

Srinivasa believes data engineering, which involves collecting, provisioning and maintaining excellent quality data for insights, is essential in driving business outcomes. For this, a data engineer needs to design and develop a scalable data architecture, set up processes that pool data from multiple sources, check the data quality, and eliminate corrupt data, etc.

Pandemic notwithstanding, Genpact, with more than 1,800+ data engineers, has helped Fortune 500 companies across different industry verticals to navigate the new normal, Srinivasa said.

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