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Data Engineer in Python Career Track

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Intermediate 60 hours English Career Track Certificate Certificate

About this course

Data engineering is the fastest-growing specialization in the data field — building and maintaining the pipelines that make data accessible for analysis and ML. DataCamp's Data Engineer in Python track covers the Python data engineering stack: building ETL and ELT pipelines, orchestrating workflows with Apache Airflow, transforming data with dbt, querying cloud data warehouses with Snowflake, processing big data with PySpark, and managing data quality and testing.

The track is structured as a complete career path rather than isolated courses — each module builds on the previous, and the track culminates in a portfolio project. Data engineering salaries consistently exceed data science salaries in many markets, making this one of DataCamp's highest-value career tracks.

What you'll learn

Build ETL and ELT pipelines using Python and pandas
Orchestrate data workflows with Apache Airflow
Transform data using dbt (data build tool)
Query and manage data in Snowflake cloud data warehouse
Process large-scale data with PySpark on Spark clusters

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Developed by DataCamp's data engineering curriculum team in collaboration with industry practitioners from leading data engineering companies.

Requirements

  • Python and SQL fundamentals; DataCamp subscription required

Who this course is for

  • Data analysts who want to transition into data engineering roles
  • Software engineers who want to specialize in data infrastructure
  • Anyone targeting data engineering, data platform, or analytics engineering roles

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Frequently asked questions

Data scientists analyze data; data engineers build the infrastructure that makes data accessible. Data engineering focuses on pipelines, warehouses, and reliability — not models.
Helpful but not required — the track focuses on tools that work across cloud providers.
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