- An Analytics Engineer provides clean data sets to users
- They focus on cleaning, transforming, testing, deploying, and documenting data.
- They employ industry best practices such as:
- data modeling
- source control
- CI/CD
- Focus more on the data rather than the technology required to maintain the data
- Spend more time on solving business problems and less on data architecture
Role of Analytics Engineer
- Exploration: exploring data already ingested into data platforms in response to stakeholder questions
- Preparation: cleaning and preparing datasets for analytics use cases
- Transformation: transforming prepared datasets into objects that can serve organizational objectives
- Documentation: documenting these objects they create in the data warehouse, ensuring that other users can also see, understand, and use them.