Data Analyst Career Paths

DATA ANALYST CAREER PATHS // You’re a data analyst or considering making a career shift to data analytics. Now you’re wondering - what are my career path options? So let’s look at common data analyst career paths.

In general, I’d break down your data analyst career path choices into 4 categories which have lots of variation within them. These 4 main paths most data analyst careers will take progress you in the direction of an analytics specialist, a subject matter expert, management, or other lateral moves.

In short, here’s how these career paths compare:

Data Analyst Specialist - This is a data analyst that stays in the role, developing their technical skills.
Data Analyst Subject Matter Expert (SME) - This type of data analyst becomes a specialist in an industry, business division, or technology.
Management - Good analysts have a lot of the same skills that make a good manager. This is definitely an option that’s available.
Lateral Moves - Your data analyst skills will open up a variety of opportunities to make lateral moves into other areas of business.

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