SQL
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Expresses complex analytical transformations clearly and efficiently.
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Analytics Engineer
Transforms warehouse data into tested, documented, reusable analytical models and metrics.
Skill coverage
100%
Course coverage
100%
Skill coverage shows how much of the role's capability map already has a published course. Course coverage shows how much of the mapped course pipeline for this role has shipped.
- Role skills
- 7
- Published coverage
- 7
- Relevant courses
- 23
Capability map
Skills
Importance describes how central each capability is to the role. Course coverage shows where you can build the skill in the current OpenSkills catalog.
01
Analytical modeling
4 capabilities
Data modeling
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Designs reusable dimensional and semantic analytical models.
Transformation workflows
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Builds modular, versioned transformations with dbt-style practices.
Course coverage
Data warehousing
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Works effectively with analytical storage and compute platforms.
02
Analytics quality
3 capabilities
Data quality
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Tests assumptions, freshness, lineage, and model contracts.
Course coverage
Business intelligence
Importance: Very important (4 of 5)
Delivers governed metrics and usable analytical products.
Data visualization
Importance: Very important (4 of 5)
Communicates quantitative findings accurately and efficiently.
Course coverage
Learning path
Relevant courses
Core foundations
The concepts this role is built on.
Supporting knowledge
Adjacent knowledge that improves day-to-day judgment.
- Business Intelligence FundamentalsFree
- Data Engineering FundamentalsFree
- Data Lakes and Lakehouses
- Data Lineage
- Data Validation and Anomaly Detection
- Data VisualizationFree
- Databricks Fundamentals
- ETL and ELT
- Executive Reporting and Dashboard DesignFree
- Power BI Fundamentals
- Snowflake Fundamentals
- Tableau Fundamentals
Specializations
Deeper paths for particular environments or directions.
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