My De Role Feels Like It's Getting Less Technical Over Time. Has This Happened To Anybody Else? I'm Confused As To How To Progress
I've been working in "data analytics" for nearly 7 years and realized on the job that I enjoy coding and coming up with technical solutions more than I do finding "business insights" with data. I got my first DE role a year ago and even the job description made it sound like this role was meant to be technical in that they expected proficiency in a programming language, cloud and an computer science or IT background. I do not have a formal CS education, but I have a lot of years of experience and domain expertise.
However, as I'm progressing in this role, the only thing I've been doing so far is parsing out extremely complicated business requirements that aren't properly explained into SQL. We use AWS, but I rarely interact with it, even though I hoped that this role will stregthen my cloud skills. I feel like two things that need strong work is our documentation and coding practices. I'm learning things in my own time outside of work and have some ideas that I shared with my manager who seems to be supportive. However, at the same time, I think they have strong desires that rather than focusing so much on technical stuff, we instead focus more on business needs rather than coding itself, which to me feels like I'm evolving into a project manager more than I am into a data engineer. I also see some interest on my team to implement text-to-sql platforms, which seems like they're interested in a low/no code direction here.
I get where they are coming from in theory, but it feels kind of optimistic in practice. I feel like we don't have good/standard practices with our coding to begin with that fluency in business requirements is not going to solve alone. I also feel like actually doing the coding informs how to best get to the business needs-to me, it's not one way, but a complimentary flow. I have been communicating this with my boss but finding myself increasingly disappointed. Is this how data engineering is in other places or could am I not in the right setting?
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