Barriers and obstacles for data engineers to get promoted after senior engineer, lack of visibility compared to other data roles, being viewed as 'less technical' at some companies, smaller teams for data engineering compared to software engineering, and the top out of the data engineering individual contributor track at data architect.
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How data engineering lacks as much visibility as other data rolesData engineers at some companies are viewed as “less technical”Data engineering teams are smaller than traditional software engineering teamsThe data engineering individual contributor track “tops out” at data architect and companies don’t need many of themSort: