Career switch, measured
From Data Architect to Data Engineer
Yes, it's a close move. Measured across current postings, the two roles have 74% skill overlap. Skills that carry over include Databricks, Snowflake, SQL, AWS; the main skills to add are Python, Airflow, Git, LLMs.
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skill overlap
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Skills that carry over
Share of each role’s postings that ask for the skill.
SkillData ArchitectData Engineer
- Databricks31%30%
- Snowflake34%27%
- SQL38%66%
- AWS34%54%
- Spark22%36%
- Azure25%28%
- dbt16%23%
- Kafka16%21%
Skills to add
Asked for often in Data Engineer postings, rarely in Data Architect ones.
SkillData ArchitectData Engineer
- Python22%70%
- Airflow–32%
- Git–22%
- LLMs–19%
- Machine learning–18%
- Data visualization–18%
- Warehouse operations–17%
- Redshift–17%
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