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Discussion on: What's your job title and why is that your title?

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Dian Fay

Until last week it was data architect: I was responsible for envisioning how applications would store and use information, designing schemas and pipelines, and implementing data access layers. It was only one of the hats I actually wore (I did regular application development, managed builds and deployments, and ran process on the side), but it was the one I was most interested in.

Now I'm a site reliability engineer, which appears to be the hot new thing as people come to grips with development and operations having more to do with each other than not. The company is focused on data so I'm still going to get to do that, but with more of a focus on scale and infrastructure.

Overall, titles don't matter unless they reflect specialization.