Objectives of a data developer

Every role, position, or job post will have its own list of objectives, responsibilities, or initiatives.

As such, in the role of a data developer, one may be charged with some of the following responsibilities:

• Maintaining the integrity of a database and infrastructure
• Monitoring and optimizing to maintain levels of responsiveness
• Ensuring quality and integrity of data resources
• Providing appropriate levels of support to communities of users
• Enforcing security policies on data resources

As a data scientist, you will note somewhat different objectives. This role will typically include some of the objectives listed here:

• Mining data from disparate sources
• Identifying patterns or trending
• Creating statistical models—modeling
• Learning and assessing
• Identifying insights and predicting

Do you perhaps notice a theme beginning here?

Note the keywords:

• Maintaining
• Monitoring
• Ensuring
• Providing
• Enforcing

These terms imply different notions than those terms that may be more associated with the role of a data scientist, such as the following:

• Mining
• Trending
• Modeling
• Learning
• Predicting

There are also, of course, some activities performed that may seem analogous to both a data developer and a data scientist and will be examined here.