Career and Capstone — Data Quality, Governance & Observability Roadmap
Turning data quality and governance skill into a job-ready profile
Steps in Career and Capstone
- ETL/ELT Engineer Career Paths — beginner · How this specialization ladders into senior data engineering and platform roles
- Data Governance and Quality Career Paths — beginner · How this specialization ladders into senior governance and data leadership roles
- Data Platform Engineer Career Paths — beginner · How this specialization ladders into senior infrastructure and architecture roles
- Big Data Engineer Career Paths — beginner · How this specialization ladders into senior and platform roles
- Streaming Data Engineer Career Paths — beginner · How this specialization ladders into senior and platform engineering roles
- Analytics Engineer Career Paths — beginner · How this specialization ladders into senior data and analytics leadership roles
- Breaking Into ETL/ELT Engineering — beginner · Common paths in from analytics, software engineering or BI roles
- Breaking Into Data Quality and Governance Roles — beginner · Common paths in from data engineering, compliance or analytics roles
- Breaking Into Data Platform Engineering — beginner · Common paths in from DevOps, SRE or data engineering roles
- Breaking Into Streaming and Real-Time Engineering — beginner · Common paths in from backend engineering or general data engineering roles
- Breaking Into Analytics Engineering — beginner · Common paths in from data analysis, BI or data engineering roles
- Breaking Into Big Data Engineering — beginner · Common paths in from software engineering or general data engineering roles
- Resume and Interview Prep for Pipeline Engineers — beginner · Preparing for pipeline design and debugging interview questions
- Resume and Interview Prep for Analytics Engineers — beginner · Preparing for SQL modeling and dbt-focused interview exercises
- Resume and Interview Prep for Data Governance Roles — beginner · Preparing for governance program design and compliance-focused interviews
- Resume and Interview Prep for Platform Engineers — beginner · Preparing for infrastructure design and reliability-focused interviews
- Resume and Interview Prep for Big Data Roles — beginner · Preparing for Spark internals and performance tuning interview questions
- Resume and Interview Prep for Streaming Roles — beginner · Preparing for Kafka internals and stream processing design questions
- Case Study: Building a Real-Time Fraud Detection Pipeline — beginner · Real design decisions behind a low-latency streaming use case
- Case Study: Building a Production Ingestion Pipeline — beginner · Taking a pipeline from design through monitoring and on-call readiness
- Case Study: Building a Self-Service Data Platform — beginner · Real design decisions behind a platform serving many internal teams
- Case Study: Building a Data Governance Program — beginner · Real steps behind standing up governance at a growing company
- Case Study: Modeling a Company's Core Business Metrics — beginner · Taking ambiguous business questions to a governed, tested metric
- Case Study: Migrating a Warehouse to a Lakehouse — beginner · Real considerations in a lakehouse migration project
- Staying Current with the Streaming Ecosystem — beginner · Following a fast-evolving space of engines and patterns
- Staying Current with Privacy Regulation and Tooling — beginner · Following an area shaped as much by law as by technology
- Staying Current with the Modern Data Stack — beginner · Following a fast-evolving tooling landscape
- Staying Current with the Analytics Engineering Ecosystem — beginner · Following an actively evolving tool and practice landscape
- Staying Current with Cloud and Platform Tooling — beginner · Following a fast-evolving infrastructure and tooling landscape
- Staying Current with the Big Data Ecosystem — beginner · Following a fast-evolving space of table formats and engines
- Capstone: Design a Complete Data Quality and Governance Program — beginner · A full program covering quality monitoring, lineage, cataloging and compliance
- Capstone: Build and Optimize a Lakehouse Pipeline — beginner · A complete pipeline covering ingestion, table format choice, and performance tuning
- Capstone: Design a Complete Data Platform — beginner · A full architecture covering compute, storage, access, cost and reliability
- Capstone: Ship a Production-Grade Data Pipeline — beginner · A complete pipeline covering extraction, loading, transformation, testing and monitoring
- Capstone: Build a Production Streaming Pipeline — beginner · A complete pipeline covering ingestion, processing, exactly-once guarantees and monitoring
- Capstone: Build a Complete Analytics Engineering Project — beginner · A full dbt project covering modeling, testing, documentation and a semantic layer
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- Data Quality, Governance & Observability roadmap — the full learning path