Platform vs. Analytics Engineer: Why Your Team Needs Both

Leaders often assume one data engineer can do it all — from raw ingestion to polished dashboards. That assumption is why many data initiatives fail before they start.

Data engineering is not a single role, but a set of distinct responsibilities across the medallion architecture: Bronze, silver, and gold. Treating it as a single job often leads to broken pipelines, frustrated teams, and stalled initiatives.

Ashok has spent years on the data side, leading cloud migration projects and seeing firsthand the gaps in data engineering skill sets….