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14 SQL Jobs and Opportunities

What SQL career path do you want to follow?

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Feb. 11, 19 · Opinion
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What Is the Career Path for SQL?

Careers related to SQL have jobs mainly related to data concentric organization. Professionals mostly use analytical thinking, and there is a high demand for SQL in today’s software market.

The educational qualifications that are required in a candidate:

  • SQL professional must have a bachelor’s degree in computer science or computer information systems-related field
  • Certification on database administrator or a database developer will be extra value to the education

What Are the Different SQL Jobs?

Below is the list of some SQL jobs with their descriptions. If you are looking for a bright career in SQL, then you should explore these jobs:

SQL Database Administrator (SQL DBA)

A database administrator is a person who is responsible for maintaining SQL server databases and for managing them.

SQL Database Developer

Duties include the designing and implementation of databases.

SQL Database Testers

The primary role is to validate the database for the correct data to be loaded.

SQL Data Scientist

This is a comparatively new field that will be used with big data and is responsible for analyzing, predicting, and mining data to move forward in the business.

SQL Data Application Interface Developer

This person works with programming languages like C# and Java and needs to be connected to databases.

BI Application Developer

This position is in high demand, and it is related mostly with the market related to data warehousing. It deals with reporting, data transformation, and the various queries related to analyzing different data cubes and marts.

BI Administrator

This person is responsible for executing EPL jobs, monitoring and publishing data warehousing reports, and sometimes comparing data with SQL database for backend validation.

Big Data Expert

This person works with big data tools such as Spark, Hive, Hadoop and many more. These programs require SQL proficiency.

Cloud Database Expert

There are many cloud databases present such as AWS, GCC, and Microsoft Azure. This also requires SQL proficiency.

Database Migration Engineer

This person is responsible for migrating the database's data to different sources in the SQL server.

SQL Data Analyst

The main responsibility of this person is to create key performance indicators to analyze data and use it further.

BI Reporting Engineer

This person bills and executes business reports and metrics using various BI tools, such as Microstrategy, Tableau, Cognos, and Paranoma Necto business intelligence solutions, which have built-in SQL database concept reporting.

BI Solution Architect (SME)

This person is responsible for providing solutions for a business problem that is related to analyzing data from various sources like SQL, etc.

NoSQL DBA

This person is responsible for using data volume velocity and different varieties so Big Data architects can provide solutions to handle this data in large numbers.

Summary

We discussed 14 different SQL job opportunities and a brief overview of each position. Now, you can start preparing for the career path you want to follow.

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