Microsoft says Fabric Analytics Engineers will be in very high demand in the next years

Microsoft released Microsoft Fabric last year after it was announced at Microsoft Build 2023, and it was one of the most promising announcements of the Microsoft annual conference.

Why? Not only does Microsoft Fabric bring together several important platforms used by developers everywhere, but it also comes with AI, and it promises to reduce business costs for all kinds of companies (startups, scale-ups, or well-established companies) greatly.

In less than a year, Microsoft Fabric has become one of the most popular data analytics platforms, according to the Redmond-based tech giant. So now, the company is looking to train future Fabric Analyst Engineers, as there soon will be a high demand for them.

To become a Fabric Analytics Engineer, Microsoft has forged a brand-new certificate, and the ones who receive it will be able to work as jack-of-all-trades engineers that will be essential to future software development teams:

Fabric Analytics Engineers play a crucial role in the data analysis ecosystem, acting as the bridge between raw data and actionable insights. Your primary responsibility is to prepare, transform, and deliver high-quality data from diverse Fabric components—lakehouses, data warehouses, semantic models, notebooks, and more—for data scientists, analysts, and other stakeholders to analyze and draw conclusions from.

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Those interested in this new role can attend the exam Microsoft wants to hold in March, it will be focused on evaluating expertise in different areas, including:

• Plan, implement and manage a solution for data analytics.
• Prepare and serve data.
• Implement and manage semantic models.
• Explore and analyze data.

They can access all the courses for studying and training for this new role via Microsoft Fabric Center Hub, but you should know that there are several steps to pass before being certified as a Fabric Analytics Engineer by Microsoft.

These 5 steps are:

1. Fabric Analytics Engineer Cloud Skills Challenge
2. Learn together
3. Exam Cram
4. Practice Test
5. Schedule your Exam

As you can tell, you’ll learn everything you need to know about this new role from experts, before proving your skills in theoretical and practical exercises. Once you schedule your exams and pass them, you can call yourself a Fabric Analytics Engineer.

To check the prices, and start with the course, head over to the Fabric Career Hub. And if you’re interested to find out more about this new role, check out Microsoft’s latest blog post.