Data Engineering Roadmap

Data Engineering Roadmap

Data Products

Create core pipelines as end-trend products instead of a mishmash of storages, pipelines, ML, visualizations, KPIs etc.

Branch out to Product Features, System capabilities and User Experience.

Data Product 1

  • System Capabilities

  • User Experience

  • Features

Data Product 2

Others…

Bespoke Data Pipelines

These are pipelines that are not supported as product yet because of very limited use-cases.

  • Maintain Existing

  • Introduce New

Raw Data Tracking

All data products eventually depend on raw data. Branch out based on core classifiers (e. Front-End vs Back-End but could be anything else too).

Front-end

  • Coverage

    • Upgrade Existing

    • Introduce New

  • Tooling

    • Introduce New

    • Evolution of existing

  • Data quality

    • Processes

    • Systems

Backend

  • Coverage

  • Tooling

  • Data Quality

3rd Party

  • Coverage

  • Tooling

  • Data quality

Data Governance

High level management of data

Definitions

  • Entities

    • Definitions

    • Modeling

  • Meta-data mgmt

    • Process

    • Systems

    • Tooling

Discovery

Data Quality Management

Data Protection

  • GDPR

    • PII Management

      • Ex. anonymization
    • GDPR Requests Mgmt

      • Ex. Automation
    • Reporting/Audit

  • Data Security

    • Anonymization

    • Access Control

    • Auditing

Data-Ops

  • Self-servability

    • Tooling

    • Data Modeling (aggregations, cubbies)

People

Growth

  • Identify Leadership potential

  • Team Size

    • Hire

    • Downsize

    • Mobility

  • Reorg

Upskill

  • Analytics/DS

  • Tech

  • Domain

Visibility

  • Publications

  • Conferences

Data Infrastructure

Maintain, Upgrade or Deprecate

  • Storage

  • Visualization

  • Pipelines/Processing

  • Tracking

Introduce new or Migrate

  • Storage

  • Visualization

  • Pipelines/Processing

  • Tracking

Cost Management

  • Measure

  • Reduce

Processes

  • Development

  • CI/CD

  • Observability

Security