Field
Data Platform & Analytics
225 postings, and the ranking is not what the field's own discourse talks about: privacy and compliance appear in 82% — more than SQL — half name cost, and real-time outnumbers batch seven to one.
225 roles · 76 JDs parsed
Data Engineer
42 postings, the core title. Pipelines, models and the page you get for someone else's schema change.
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Failure and incident narrative The control Design under constraint
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Analytics Engineer
The modelling layer between raw data and the business. Where a single definition of a metric is won or lost.
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Measuring what resists measurement The control Discovery before solution
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Data Platform Engineer
21 postings. Builds the substrate the data engineers use — the paved road for data.
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Design under constraint Measuring what resists measurement The control
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Streaming / Real-time Engineer
Streaming in 47% of postings against batch in 6%. The specialism with the hardest failure modes.
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Design under constraint Latency and cost arithmetic Failure and incident narrative
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Data Governance & Quality
Privacy and compliance in 82%, governance and catalog in 46%. Where the regulatory exposure physically lives.
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The control Measuring what resists measurement Reading a job description
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Data Architect
Owns the model and the boundaries rather than the pipelines. Decisions that outlive the tooling.
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Discovery before solution Design under constraint The control
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