[data4lyfe]

The role is called data engineer now. It's just one of many data engineering roles. Data engineers at a non-tech company could be 1 person holding up the entire system doing administrative tasks on it so to speak. It could also be one of many persons that work towards holding up Youtube's ML recommender systems.

I think just in general data engineer is a better term to find the same role across a lot of companies today.

[29athrowaway]

No, that's a different thing.

Database administrators keep databases running, managing access and security, doing maintenance tasks, running migrations, etc.

Data engineers are about maximizing the value of existing data by transforming it, aggregating it, etc.

[dvtrn]

I'll throw $100 towards your travel costs for you to come fly in and tell this to my employer.

Not necessarily the difference between DBA and DE, just what a flipping DBA even is.

[slotrans]

DBAs do that second thing too, and always have.

[dmux]

Yeah, that's my experience as well. They've always run ETL type jobs.