The Microsoft Fabric Career Hub lists four roles associated with the product: Analytics Engineer, Data Analyst, Data Engineer, Data Scientist.
Analytics Engineer
The role
Prepare and enrich data for analysis using semantic models, lakehouses, and data warehouses.
In Microsoft Fabric
- Ingest or access data with shortcuts, pipelines or dataflows.
- Transform data with dataflows, procedures, and notebooks.
- Store and query data in lakehouses and data warehouses.
- Expose data with reusable semantic models.
Appropriate Certification and/or Course
Microsoft Certified: Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate (DP-600).
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Data Analyst
The role
Maximize data value through visualization and reporting, building data models, and embedding advanced analytics.
In Microsoft Fabric
- Expose data with Power BI reports, semantic models, and SQL endpoints.
- Transform data with dataflows and procedures.
Appropriate Certification and/or Course
Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst Associate (PL-300).
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Data Engineer
The role
Design, secure, and optimize solutions to ingest and transform batch and streaming data at scale.
In Microsoft Fabric
- Connect to data with shortcuts and mirroring.
- Ingest and transform data with notebooks, pipelines, dataflows, and event streams.
- Store and query data in lakehouses, data warehouses, and event-houses.
- Monitor and optimize the performance of Fabric analytics solutions.
Appropriate Certification and/or Course
Microsoft Certified: Fabric Data Engineer Associate (DP-700).
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Data Scientist
The role
Use AI, machine learning (ML), and statistical analysis to uncover trends in data by building predictive models.
In Microsoft Fabric
- Access data from lakehouses, data warehouses, and semantic models.
- Explore, clean and prepare data with notebooks.
- Create AI/ML models and experiments and store results in the Lakehouse.
- Expose and consume models from Power BI reports, SQL endpoints, and notebooks.
Appropriate Certification and/or Course
Microsoft Applied Skills: Implement a data science and machine learning solution with Microsoft Fabric.
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Other
Microsoft's documents discuss a number of other roles, often without defining them all that well
Citizen Developer. Defined by the Gartner group as "an employee who creates application capabilities for consumption by themselves or others, using tools that are not actively forbidden by IT or business units." and "They report to a business unit or function other than IT."
Data Warehouse Developer.
Data Architect.
Database Developer.
App Developer.
AI Developer.
AI Engineer.
Database Administrator.