Data Career Roadmaps

Step-by-step Data career roadmaps: the skills to learn, in what order, and what each stage of the path is for.

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1. Analytics Engineer, dbt and the Modern Data Stack

   Analytics engineers own the transformation layer between raw data and business decisions, building reliable, tested, documented models that analysts and data scientists actually trust.

   Data · beginner · 14 min read

2. Data Engineer

   Data engineers build and operate the pipelines, storage, and compute infrastructure that turn raw data into queryable assets. The role sits at the intersection of software engineering and analytics, and demand remains strong despite AI tooling advances.

   Data · intermediate · 14 min read

3. Data Scientist

   Data Scientists turn messy data into decisions and products. This path builds the statistical depth, ML engineering, and communication skills that survive the AI-tooling wave.

   Data · intermediate · 14 min read

4. Database Administrator and Database Reliability Engineer

   Own the full lifecycle of production databases—performance, availability, and recovery—while building the automation and observability that keeps data systems honest at scale.

   Data · intermediate · 14 min read