Etl lead vs senior etl developer

The differences between etl leads and senior etl developers can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. While it typically takes 4-6 years to become an etl lead, becoming a senior etl developer takes usually requires 2-4 years. Additionally, an etl lead has an average salary of $106,442, which is higher than the $104,281 average annual salary of a senior etl developer.

The top three skills for an etl lead include sql server, architecture and data warehouse. The most important skills for a senior etl developer are data warehouse, unix, and sql server.

Etl lead vs senior etl developer overview

	ETL Lead	Senior ETL Developer
Yearly salary	$106,442	$104,281
Hourly rate	$51.17	$50.14
Growth rate	9%	21%
Number of jobs	31,461	102,293
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 71%	Bachelor's Degree, 74%
Average age	43	39
Years of experience	6	4

Etl lead vs senior etl developer salary

Etl leads and senior etl developers have different pay scales, as shown below.

	ETL Lead	Senior ETL Developer
Average salary	$106,442	$104,281
Salary range	Between $83,000 And $135,000	Between $81,000 And $133,000
Highest paying City	San Francisco, CA	San Francisco, CA
Highest paying state	Washington	Washington
Best paying company	NerdWallet	eBay
Best paying industry	Health Care	Hospitality

Differences between etl lead and senior etl developer education

There are a few differences between an etl lead and a senior etl developer in terms of educational background:

	ETL Lead	Senior ETL Developer
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 71%	Bachelor's Degree, 74%
Most common major	Computer Science	Computer Science
Most common college	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	-

Etl lead vs senior etl developer demographics

Here are the differences between etl leads' and senior etl developers' demographics:

	ETL Lead	Senior ETL Developer
Average age	43	39
Gender ratio	Male, 74.2% Female, 25.8%	Male, 68.9% Female, 31.1%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 8.2% Unknown, 4.9% Hispanic or Latino, 9.6% Asian, 25.6% White, 51.4% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.2%	Black or African American, 4.3% Unknown, 4.8% Hispanic or Latino, 8.0% Asian, 35.0% White, 47.8% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.2%
LGBT Percentage	8%	8%

Differences between etl lead and senior etl developer duties and responsibilities

Etl lead example responsibilities.

Manage the issues raise from QA and assign work items to the team and take up critical work items.
Lead defect review meetings with business team leads as well as QA lead and prioritize development tasks around project milestones.
Involve in writing UNIX shell scripts and automate the sessions running processes and also write UNIX Perl scripts for business needs.
Provide technical leadership and manage all aspects of the SDLC process-requirement analysis, design, development, testing, and support/maintenance.
Administrate SharePoint database access; manage classified documents and applications.
Involve in writing TeraData scripts.

Senior etl developer example responsibilities.

Develop custom interface for executing and managing SSIS packages.
Create UNIX scripts to create data files and FTP it to windows/ TM1/ Linux servers for reporting.
Extract data from various relational databases, application systems, flat files, XML documents, and load into data warehouse.
Develop PL/SQL store procedures to incorporate complex business rules.
Experience in big data, cloud and hadoop distribute file systems HDFS.
Close worked and help other team members for Hadoop projects for any issues.

Etl lead vs senior etl developer skills

Common etl lead skills

SQL Server, 6%
Architecture, 5%
Data Warehouse, 5%
Unix, 5%
Data Quality, 4%
Informatica Powercenter, 4%

Common senior etl developer skills

Data Warehouse, 6%
Unix, 6%
SQL Server, 5%
Informatica Powercenter, 5%
PL/SQL, 5%
Informatica Workflow, 4%