Introduction to the Professional Data Engineer role
1. Introduction to the Professional Data Engineer role
So… what exactly is the role of a Professional Data Engineer? Let’s review the job role description: A Professional Data Engineer makes data usable and valuable for others by collecting, transforming, and publishing data. This individual evaluates and selects products and services to meet business and regulatory requirements. A Professional Data Engineer creates and manages robust data processing systems. This includes the ability to design, build, deploy, monitor, maintain, and secure data processing workloads. For more information, visit the Professional Data Engineer Certification page. In this course, you put yourself in the role of a Professional Data Engineer working for Cymbal Retail, a fictional company. Cymbal Retail is amongst the largest B2C retailers in the world serving customers in 52 countries and territories. The founders started with brick and mortar stores and had the foresight to continuously invest in technologies over many decades. Cymbal Retail has seen significant changes in purchasing behavior, with accelerated growth in online purchases in recent years even as they continue to grow their brick and mortar presence. Let’s explore some of what your role will involve at Cymbal Retail. Cymbal Retail has multiple data centers of their own across the world. Cymbal Retail is in the process of transitioning these data centers to being entirely on Google Cloud, with a significant portion of their data and applications already moved. When migrating and operating, as a Professional Data Engineer you will need to ensure that Cymbal Retail complies with all local regulations. You will also need knowledge of security around data and the tools available for compliance. Customer delight has been the guiding purpose for Cymbal Retail through generations. The company has made multiple acquisitions across the world to serve customers with agility. As a Professional Data Engineer, you must be able to integrate products and solutions available within Google Cloud with technologies employed by the acquired company. You have four key technology areas of focus that drive your short term technology strategy: rapidity in the entire supply chain, accuracy of analytics and predictions, centralized control and security, and controlled costs. Throughout every decision, the data engineering team has to find the right balance to meet the business needs. Cymbal Retail’s management wants to be on top of all activities across the organization. The management team requires up to date information at their fingertips in easily understandable visuals. They also want the rest of the organization to employ data in their own decision making. Analysts should have the tools to ask questions of the data. It is one of your responsibilities as a Professional Data Engineer to make data available to all parts of the organization that need it. Data should be available quickly and in easily consumable ways. As you continue through this course, you will continue to explore the role of a Professional Data Engineer at Cymbal Retail. We use this scenario to illustrate the types of considerations and tasks that correspond to each section of the exam guide. Cymbal Retail’s business needs also provide context for many of the diagnostic questions you encounter along the way, and highlight areas that you should spend more time learning about.2. Let's practice!
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