Skills Roadmap
Progression toward Data Analyst → Data Engineer → ML/AI Engineer, tracked by evidence — not vibes.
Data Analyst
In progressData Engineer
NextML / AI Engineer
HorizonSkills tracked
13
At target
0
Levels to gain
21
across all skills
Groups
5
Core SQL & Analytics
4 skills
SQL
Evidence
Daily drills, fraud queries at work
Next practice task
Window-function masterset
Python
Evidence
Magnifier scripts, pandas
Next practice task
Refactor Magnifier into a package
Dashboards / BI
Evidence
Looker at work
Next practice task
Publish a public dashboard sample
Data cleaning
Evidence
Daily fraud data hygiene
Next practice task
Write a reusable validation suite
Engineering & Pipelines
2 skills
Pipelines / orchestration
Evidence
Reading
Next practice task
Build one Airflow DAG end-to-end
APIs
Evidence
Magnifier integrations
Next practice task
Wrap a service in FastAPI
Modeling & Warehouse
3 skills
Data modeling
Evidence
Self-study
Next practice task
Model a star schema end-to-end
Snowflake
Evidence
Trial account
Next practice task
Load Magnifier data into Snowflake
dbt
Evidence
Tutorial project
Next practice task
Ship a documented dbt project
ML / AI
3 skills
Statistics
Evidence
Course in progress
Next practice task
Hypothesis-testing refresher
ML basics
Evidence
Intro course
Next practice task
Train a fraud classifier baseline
AI tooling
Evidence
Magnifier (LLM forensics)
Next practice task
Evaluate a RAG pattern for case notes
Communication
1 skills
Stakeholder communication
Evidence
Daily cross-team fraud work
Next practice task
Run a metric-definition workshop