Topic — 2 essays
The Craft
The practice of data architecture itself — what the role actually is, the decisions it owns, and the judgment that separates designed data from accumulated data.
Field Notes
Data Engineer vs Data Architect vs Analytics Engineer
Three overlapping data roles, three different jobs: engineers move the data, analytics engineers shape it, architects design the system. The real division.
02Essay
What Does a Data Architect Actually Do?
A data architect's job isn't drawing diagrams or picking tools. It's deciding how data is shaped, defined, owned, and trusted, then defending those decisions.