Career & Certification
“What should I learn next?” Roles and what changes with seniority, your first 30 days, a senior handbook, interview answers, certification navigation and a short bookshelf.
Career toolkit
The Power BI role map (analyst, BI developer, analytics engineer, senior, BI engineer, Fabric analytics engineer, architect, lead): what each does, skills, tools, portfolio and interview expectations, plus resume bullets, a portfolio guide and STAR stories for BI incidents.
Data Analyst · BI Developer · Senior BI Developer · BI Engineer · BI Architect / LeadCareerYour first 30 days as a BI developer
A week-by-week plan for a new BI job: understand the environment, then the models and their owners, ship small changes, and own something by the end of the month, with the questions to ask.
Data Analyst · BI Developer · Senior BI DeveloperCareerThe senior developer handbook
Things worth knowing before you become senior: what to do before touching a model, changing a KPI, optimising, publishing, deploying or deleting, and how to behave during incidents, disagreements, code reviews and architecture decisions.
Senior BI Developer · BI Engineer · BI Architect / LeadCareerInterview centre: weak answers vs senior answers
What interviewers expect at each level, the six kinds of question you'll meet, and side-by-side weak and senior answers to the questions that separate candidates.
Data Analyst · BI Developer · Senior BI Developer · BI Engineer · BI Architect / LeadCareerCertification navigator: PL-300 and DP-600
Every Microsoft objective for PL-300 and DP-600 mapped to the lessons that teach it, the assignments and flashcards that drill it, and the scenarios where you use it at work.
Data Analyst · BI Developer · Senior BI Developer · BI EngineerLibraryThe bookshelf
Six books worth owning, not forty: dimensional modeling, DAX mastery, DAX performance, DAX patterns, data visualisation and T-SQL, each tagged by stage.
Data Analyst · BI Developer · Senior BI Developer · BI Engineer · BI Architect / LeadElsewhere on the site
Career paths Certification map Interview flashcards Find your starting point