Andmeinsener tegeleb andmeinseneeriaga:

süsteemide ja protsesside

arendamise,
juurutamise,
haldamisega.

Sisendiks on (toor)andmed.

Väljundiks kvaliteetsed ja järjepidevad andmed edasiste rakenduste jaoks (nt analüüs, masinõpe).

"Data engineering is the development, implementation, and maintenance of systems and processes that take in raw data and produce high-quality, consistent information that supports downstream use cases, such as analysis and machine learning."
- Joe Reis