Engineering is an essential element of all corporations. Without it, companies are unable to create, maintain, and upgrade their products. Technology enterprises rely on their engineering department to survive in a competitive world.

Even so, not all engineers perform the same set of tasks. In heavy technology-based companies, software engineers are one of the most critical resources. They build programs, create software, and maintain the functionality of the systems. Many other career paths diverge from software engineering. They specialize in a particular subject.

In the data landscape, corporations face a tremendous growth in data amount. We need someone to step up and claim the responsibilities of managing that data. That commences the dawn of big data engineers. A big data engineer can evolve from a database administrator, a data architect, or a data analyst.

Big data engineers and software engineers differ in skill sets. Still, many companies tend to regard them as identical entities. They misemploy the terms in job descriptions. Furthermore, they make false assumptions in technical interviews.

In most cases, a software engineer handles the jobs of a big data engineer. His responsibilities thus turn complex, obscure, and polyvalent.

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