Microsoft Azure Data Engineer

The emergence of Big Data has sparked a massive revolution in the way businesses operate worldwide. Consequently, there is now a tremendous need for Data Engineers. A data engineer takes raw data, converts it into a suitable format, and stores it for various purposes. The primary objective of a data engineer is to ensure that data is easily accessible to a wide range of users, enabling them to make well-informed decisions and enhance their organization’s performance. With the evolution of the data landscape and the introduction of cloud technologies, businesses now have exciting new prospects to explore. As a Data Engineer, you have the opportunity to embark on a highly rewarding career path.

As an Azure data engineer, your role is to assist stakeholders in comprehending the data by exploring it. You also contribute to the creation and maintenance of secure and compliant data processing pipelines using various tools and techniques. By utilizing different Azure data services and frameworks, you are able to store and generate refined and improved datasets for analysis.

In addition, you play a crucial role in ensuring that data pipelines and data stores meet specific business requirements and constraints, while also being high-performing, efficient, organized, and reliable. You are adept at swiftly addressing unexpected issues and minimizing data loss. Furthermore, as an Azure data engineer, you are responsible for designing, implementing, monitoring, and optimizing data platforms to fulfill the needs of the data pipeline.

Data engineering is a field that requires a wide range of skills and technological knowledge. The Microsoft DP-203 certification serves as a validation of your expertise in this area and can have a transformative impact on your career. However, passing the DP-203 exam requires practical knowledge, technical skills, a solid understanding of fundamental concepts, and much more.

During this course, you will gain valuable insights into how to integrate, merge, and transform data from various unstructured and structured sources into a structured format that can be used for building analytics solutions. Additionally, you will learn how to develop, support, and implement Microsoft BI solutions to meet the needs of clients and the market.

Through real-world projects and industry scenarios, you will have the opportunity to become proficient in constructing solutions using ETL tools, Data warehouses, Data APIs, Database Systems, and Machine Learning. Furthermore, you will delve into data engineering patterns and practices, specifically in relation to working with batch and real-time analytical solutions using Azure data platform technologies. You will gain a solid understanding of the core compute and storage technologies that are essential for building an analytical solution.

Prerequisites

• General IT technical knowledge
• Keen interest in pursuing an IT career