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: Who Does What?
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.