The Analytics Engineering Podcast

David Jayatillake: Should Great Data People Become Managers or Not?

Nov 18, 2021 · 41 min · Season 1 · Episode 11 · 40.6 MBExplicit
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David is Sr. Director of Data at Lyst, and as leader of their analytics + data science teams he has followed the evolution of data roles closely over the past decade.

David spends a lot of time thinking about career progression + data team structure, and in this conversation with Tristan + Julia they dive into the classic individual contributor vs manager conundrum, migrating between warehouses, and reactive vs proactive data workflows.

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