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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[phuongphan]

Thank you so much, this is helpful for me

[janaeraquelmiller]

This video is very helpful! Thank you!

[juliemammen]

I have been working as clinical data abstractor for 6 years and trying to break into the clinical data analytics. It is so hard. I have been applying for almost 2 months . I have the basic sql and data viz. Skills. I am wondering if you have any suggestions on getting the feet on the door.

[ryanadams]

What do data analysts do? Sounds like they brainstorm ideas all day how does this make the company money

[Gwen_yourgirl]

Hi, Im a nurse and trying to get the most of the technology that we have.. I don’t know about technical skills like coding if I can do it. I searched becoming Nurse informatics. Hopefully Ill start to become an asset on the healthcare field as a data analyzer. Any recommendations were can I start??