Data Engineer vs Product Designer
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Pay
Data Engineer
$150,000 typical, a year
Most Data Engineers earn $127,400 to $179,500 a year.
From 1,363 postings that list pay
3,328 open jobs now
Product Designer
$166,900 typical, a year
Most Product Designers earn $140,000 to $194,500 a year.
From 820 postings that list pay
1,630 open jobs now
Product Designers typically earn about $16,900 more a year than Data Engineers.
What each one does
Data Engineer
- Design and build scalable data pipelines to ingest and process large datasets.
- Develop and maintain data models using SQL and transformation tools.
- Implement data quality controls and monitoring to ensure system reliability.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
- Optimize data systems for performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.
- Document data architectures and provide technical guidance to the team.
Summed up from 30 job postings
Product Designer
- Collaborate with product and engineering teams to design new features and user interfaces.
- Create wireframes, mockups, and prototypes to visualize and test design concepts.
- Conduct user research and testing to understand user needs and improve product usability.
- Design and maintain a consistent design system to ensure visual and functional consistency.
- Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to translate business requirements into design solutions.
- Communicate design decisions clearly to stakeholders and present work effectively.
Summed up from 30 job postings
Skills employers ask for
Data Engineer
More common in Data Engineer postings
- SQL 6 in 10 postings
- Data Engineering 6 in 10 postings
- Python 6 in 10 postings
- Data Pipeline 4 in 10 postings
- Data Modeling 4 in 10 postings
- AWS 3 in 10 postings
- Databricks 3 in 10 postings
- ETL/ELT 3 in 10 postings
- Snowflake 3 in 10 postings
- Data Warehousing 3 in 10 postings
Product Designer
More common in Product Designer postings
- Design Systems 6 in 10 postings
- Figma 5 in 10 postings
- Product Design 5 in 10 postings
- Prototyping 5 in 10 postings
- UX/UI Design 4 in 10 postings
- Design 4 in 10 postings
- Wireframes 2 in 10 postings
- User-Centered Design 2 in 10 postings
- Information Architecture 1 in 10 postings
- Generative AI 1 in 10 postings
Out of each role's current postings.
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Data Engineer
Oracle Fusion ETL & Data Migration Engineer
Rang Technologies$97,100 - $180,300/yrstated USA - DC - WASHINGTON RemoteJSONOracleSQLInformaticaREST APIs +14Data Engineer
RainPay not stated San Juan, Puerto Rico, New York, NY, District of Columbia, Europe | SpainApache AirflowApache KafkaSnowflakePythonPub/Sub +15- Pay not stated San Juan, Puerto Rico, New York, NY, District of Columbia, Europe | SpainTerraformApache AirflowCI/CDPythonApache Kafka +14
Product Designer
- $175k - $215k/yrstated New York, NY HybridA/B TestingProduct DesignDesign StrategyUX/UI DesignPrototyping
- Pay not stated Virtual, USReactProduct DesignFigmaPrototypingGenerative AI +7
- $126,400 - $189,600/yrstated Fridley, Minnesota, United States of America OnsiteFigmaUser-Centered DesignDesign SystemsUsabilityUX/UI Design +4
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