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Can data engineer work from home?
Can data engineer work from home? Or do they have to be physically present at the work-site to get their data engineering job done? Let me answer this commonly asked question.
A data engineer can definitely work from home. The role of data engineer does not require the engineer to be physically present on-site. Why? because 99% of the data engineering work happens in the cloud. All you'll need is a strong Internet connection and credentials to login to your cloud accounts to build data pipelines.
Can data engineers work remotely?
Yes, data engineers can work remotely, from anywhere in the world. As I mentioned, the data engineer will need to have access to a high-speed and stable Internet connection and admin credentials to access your cloud accounts.
Typically a data engineer will be building data-pipelines, verifying and cleaning data and making it available for the data scientists and data analysts.
However, will you actually get to work on data engineering project remotely is typically determined by the clients, your company's work from home policy and management. Simply going by the nature of work, data engineer can work from home.
Where can a data engineer work?
A data engineer works typically with on-premises servers or the cloud. These days, several legacy data engineering projects involve migration of large structured and unstructured data to cloud.
These projects will require you to have remote access to the servers at client site and also to client's cloud. Once you have established the access and your data pipeline, the cloud tools can take care of required data migration.
There are several [tools and programming languages for data engineers] (https://www.crazyengineers.com/discussion/what-are-the-best-programming-languages-for-data) that can help with specific challenges. That's another discussion though.
Let me know if you have follow-up questions. I'll be happy to answer.