The Pay is Fantastic! What Is The Average Salary of a Big Data Engineer in Indonesia?

 The Pay is Fantastic! What Is The Average Salary of a Big Data Engineer in Indonesia?

Many companies are now very interested in IT and big data professions, not only from IT companies but also from data engineers needed by companies from almost all industries, especially companies that are starting to explore digitalization.

With the highest career ladder being the Chief Data Officer in charge of data analysts, data managers, and data scientists, it's no wonder that the salary offered is also fantastic!

Starting from the job prospects and the average salary, you could say being a Data Engineer is the hottest profession in recent years.

For those who don't know about Data Engineers, let's get acquainted with Data Engineers first!

What is a Data Engineer?

Data Engineers are the “front line” in the world of data analytics. Because they are the ones who take the first steps in managing the huge amount of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data that companies need.

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A Data Engineer develops the data infrastructure and interfaces needed to collect data from various sources. They are also the ones who designed a useful system for collecting information and turning it into a clean data set that will be sorted and used by Data Analysts and Data Scientists.

Types and Types of Data Engineer

According to Dataquest, there are three main types of data engineers:

1. Generalist
For some companies that don't have many employees who focus on big data, usually the Data Engineer, apart from managing data, must also be able to analyze, organize, and create a format that is easier to understand.

2. Pipe-centric
A Data Engineer is most often in touch with a Data Scientist to build useful specific methods to accomplish certain big data analyses.

3. Database centered
Creating large data warehouses to simplify the work of Data Analysts and Data Scientists.

What are the Duties and Responsibilities?

A Data Engineer is in charge of building and supervising the architecture of a database, therefore a Data Engineer generally has the following duties:

• Extract data from multiple sources
• Prepare data for ETL process (Extract, Transform, Load)
• Merge data
• Evaluate, parse, and clean datasets
• Sorting raw data
• Combining data from multiple sources into one
• Gathering requirements for the data model
• Ensure data is safe
• Build custom data pipelines based on business logic
• Collaborate with database administrators to store data
• Writing ETL logic
• Write queries with accurate results
• Create a new data validation method
• Identify and collect new data
• Maintaining computer clusters
• Using the framework to present data
• Exposing data stores to analytics applications

Even though not everything will be done by a Data Engineer every day, you will likely encounter tasks like that if you become a Data Engineer.

For the salary of a data engineer, it is fantastic, Reporting from Indeed, in the United States to be precise in New York, the salary reaches 133.000 USD/year or 9.400 USD/month. If converted to IDR at the exchange rate of Rp. 14,000 is Rp. 1,899,905,000/year or Rp. 134,279,000/month.

How about in Indonesia? in Indonesia, the salary is quite large too, the average Data Engineer salary is around Rp. 161.000.000/year or Rp. 13.400.000/month. Wow!!

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