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by ThePhysicist 3572 days ago
Data engineering sounds much better than "data plumbing", but in my experience the latter is a more accurate description of the work of a data engineer: Building -and often unclogging- pipes that transport data from A to B, and putting in filters to clean it and extract the useful bits.

So why not change your LinkedIn job title to "data plumber", which is sure to get you some serious recruiter attention ;)