DE301: Data Pipeline Development & ETL/ELT Engineering

SFIA Reference: DENG Level 4/5 Data Engineer (Grade 3) Competency Description Designs, develops, and maintains data pipelines, ensuring scalability, performance, and quality in support of enterprise reporting and analytics. Learning Outcomes Evidence Requirements Level 4: Level 5: Suggested Learning Activities Recommended Resources

Case Study: Leading Technical Projects Without the Data Headaches

Role: Project ManagerContext: Large-scale technical consultancy engagement requiring coordination across engineering, finance, and delivery teams 🔪 Challenge The project manager needed to: Problems included: “I spent hours each week trying to make sense of data from five different places—and still couldn’t guarantee it was accurate.” 🚀 Solution The Data Engineering team: 🌟 Outcome “Now I … Read more

Senior Data Engineer (Grade 4)

SFIA-8 Aligned Overview As a Senior Data Engineer (Grade 4) you design, build, and optimise scalable data platforms, pipelines, and architectures. In this role, you lead data engineering best practices, DevOps, automation, and real-time processing, working closely with Data Architects, Analysts, and Data Scientists to drive business value from data. You play a key role … Read more

Data Analyst/Report Writer (Grade 3)

(Revised for SFIA-8 Alignment) Overview As a Data Analyst / Report Writer (Grade 3) you play a pivotal role in developing insightful reports, dashboards, and data models to support data-driven decision-making. This role involves working closely with the Data Warehouse team, Finance, and Commercial teams, ensuring data integrity, governance, and automation across reporting processes. You … Read more

Data Engineer (Grade 3)

(Revised for SFIA-8 Alignment) Overview As a Data Engineer (Grade 3) you support the development of scalable, efficient, and secure data solutions. You work closely with Data Architects, Analysts, and Business Teams to ensure the effective management of structured and unstructured data across our enterprise. As part of the Data Engineering team, you are responsible … Read more

Introduction to SFIA documentation

The SFIA Framework has become the global common reference for skills and competency for thedigital world.The SFIA website – www.sfia-online.org – is the primary source of information for the SFIA Framework.Additional resources to enable skills and competency development are available along with otherelements of the supporting ecosystem.A number of core documents are available for download … Read more