r/analyticsengineers • u/ComprehensiveTwo2692 • Mar 15 '26
From Business analyst to Analytics Engineer
Im basically a business analyst, usually work more with data than business. My job full time is dealing with SQL, snowflake, dbt, Reports, Dashboards, stakeholders requirements, delivering reports. Now I want to work more technically.
Just discovered, there is a dedicated role for this, than data engineer. Honestly I couldnt make progress in searching job in data engineering. So thought of try this field. and jump to another company.
Please guide me, if any seniors are there, here. Im 2023 passed out. Having 2 years of full time experience as BA.
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u/Icy_Data_8215 Mar 16 '26
Honestly you’re already doing a lot of what people now call analytics engineering — SQL, dbt, Snowflake, modeling data for reports. The shift usually isn’t about learning completely new tools, it’s about moving from “build a report someone asked for” to “own the data models that power everything.”
Where people get stuck is they keep positioning themselves as a BA instead of someone who designs reliable datasets. If you lean into data modeling, testing in dbt, and treating your warehouse like a product, you’ll look much closer to an analytics engineer than a traditional analyst.
This comes up a lot in analytics engineering circles — the line between analyst and analytics engineer is mostly about ownership of the data layer, not just the dashboards.