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dbt — Data Build Tool for Analytics Engineering

Data Pipelines skills for the Data Engineer career path. Filter, model, and reason about the real data this role works with every day.

Professional Mid priority 1 Project-Based Sandbox & Interactive Quiz
What you'll learn

Data Pipelines skills for the Data Engineer

Building on Apache Airflow — Workflow Orchestration, this lesson focuses on the practical Data Pipelines toolkit a working Data Engineer reaches for on the job.

dbtanalytics-engineeringtransformationsqlmodelstests
Sandbox preview

Try the first query

-- Data Pipelines — your first interaction
SELECT example, value
FROM data-pipelines_dataset
WHERE priority = '1'
  AND career = 'Data Engineer';

preview · Sprint-2 will replace this with a live runner
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Sprint-1 stub

This is the Sprint-1 stub for ai.careerplane.data-analytics.data-engineer.data-pipelines.dbt. The fully-generated topic page (sandbox + quiz + AI hints + interactive tooling) lands in Sprint-2 at static/content/data-analytics/Data Engineer/Data Pipelines/dbt — Data Build Tool for Analytics Engineering/index.html (per arch/memo.md → D-2026-04-22-13). The //go:embed all:static directive auto-serves it on the next container rebuild — no server-code change needed.

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