Data engineer vs. data scientist: What’s the difference and which should you hire?

Data engineers and data scientists play crucial roles in managing and utilizing data for business growth. Both roles require strong technical skills, but their responsibilities differ. Data engineers focus on building and maintaining the database infrastructure to store and access data, while data scientists use analytics tools to extract meaningful insights from large amounts of data and create predictive models. Companies should first establish a solid data engineering foundation before hiring data scientists. Fivetran offers a data integration platform that helps businesses build robust data infrastructures by connecting to various data sources, transforming data, and replicating it to high-performance cloud environments.