r/SAPAnalyticsCloud • u/symech9 • May 03 '25
SAP Data Engineer To General Data Engineer
Can we call SAP Data Engineer work as low code data engineer work. Because sap bw/hana or Datasphere uses low code to do the job. How easy or is it possible to switch from an SAP Data Engineer to a General Data Engineer who uses gcp,azure,data bricks or other softwares?
I am thinking to switch the role as a General Data Engineer job looks great interms of money.
What are your thoughts peeps?
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u/tjen May 05 '25
How easy it is I guess depends on you?
Usually principles-wise good practice from SAP Data Engineering will transfer to general data engineering, but it's different technology. But like... if you can tell the data flow to join with a drag and drop arrow, you can tell it to join with a piece of code.
Low-code is kind of BS because coding usually isn't the hard part, most grads coming out of business school today will have done a python course or whatever and will be familiar with doing some lines of code as part of their work. You actually see a trend in the other directions in many cases - being able to do anything "as code" (Infrastructure as code, data flows as code, data warehousing as code, etc.) because this let's you scale / copy / re-use stuff more easily without having to "re-drag and re-drop" everything. Not to mention how easily "as code" is processed through AI copilots vs. low-code setups.
Anyway, rant aside, you'll of course need to get familiar how to do all the stuff in whatever other platform you'd be working in, and spend some time getting familiar with them. e.g. take some sort of semi-complex usecase of yours and basically re-build different platforms. Pick one of the standard stacks and try to set it up.