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Data Engineer Resume Examples & ATS Keywords
The exact keywords ATS software scans for in data engineer resumes, the mistakes that get them rejected, and a real bullet rewrite.
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Tools and technologies to name
Relevant certifications
ATS checklist for data engineer resumes
State the data volume processed (GB, TB per day).
Name the stack for each project, spelled exactly.
Include the times and costs you improved.
Add a GitHub link if you have public code.
Common Data Engineer resume mistakes
Listing tools without the data volume processed and the pipeline frequency.
Leaving out the cost or processing time you improved.
No mention of monitoring and data quality.
Listing tools without volume and frequency.
Missing time or cost improvements.
No mention of monitoring and data quality.
Weak vs. strong bullet example
Weak
Built data pipelines for the analytics team.
Strong
Migrated 30 ETL jobs to Airflow and dbt on BigQuery, processing 2 TB per day and cutting load time from 6 hours to 55 minutes.
Weak
Built data pipelines.
Strong
Migrated 30 ETL jobs to Airflow and dbt on BigQuery, processing 2 TB per day and cutting load time from 6 hours to 55 minutes.
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