Analytics Engineer: dbt, SQL Modeling, and Modern Data Transformation for Business Intelligence Teams
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 12 2026
Pages: 294
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.73 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Raw data is rarely useful on its own.
Before organizations can make decisions, data must be cleaned, modeled, transformed, documented, tested, and structured into reliable analytical systems.
That is the role of the modern analytics engineer.
Analytics Engineer is a practical, engineering-focused guide to building production-grade analytics workflows using dbt, SQL modeling techniques, and modern data platform practices.
This book teaches data professionals how to transform fragmented raw data into trustworthy business intelligence systems that scale across teams and organizations.
Why analytics engineering matters
Modern data teams face challenges such as:
- inconsistent business metrics
- duplicated transformation logic
- unreliable dashboards and reporting
- poorly documented datasets
- difficult-to-maintain SQL pipelines
- weak governance and testing practices
Analytics engineering bridges the gap between data engineering and business intelligence by bringing software engineering discipline into analytics workflows.
What you will learn
- fundamentals of analytics engineering
- modern ELT and transformation workflows
- building modular SQL models with dbt
- dimensional modeling and warehouse design
- testing and validating analytical data
- documentation and lineage tracking
- reusable business metrics and semantic layers
- version control and collaborative analytics workflows
- orchestrating transformations in production
- optimizing query performance and warehouse costs
From raw warehouse tables to trusted metrics
Throughout the book, you will learn how to:
- structure maintainable transformation layers
- standardize business definitions across teams
- improve reliability and trust in analytics systems
- build scalable SQL modeling workflows
- reduce technical debt in reporting pipelines
- manage analytics projects like production software
Each chapter focuses on practical workflows used in modern analytics and data platform teams.
Practical applications
- business intelligence systems
- analytics transformation pipelines
- KPI and reporting platforms
- customer and product analytics
- finance and operations reporting systems
- enterprise data warehouse workflows
These examples reflect real-world analytical engineering challenges.
Who this book is for
- analytics engineers
- data analysts transitioning into engineering
- data engineers
- BI developers
- SQL developers
- teams building modern data platforms
If you want to build analytics systems that are trusted, maintainable, and scalable, this book provides the roadmap.
Model clearly.
Transform reliably.
Engineer analytics that teams can trust.
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