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Upskill in Data Engineering Fundamentals

Level up your tech skills with this short course on Data Engineering Fundamentals.
For software developers looking to take their career a step further.

Practical Data Engineering Fundamentals

Learn the key skills to become a data engineer: orchestrating tasks as you would in a real production environment, scheduling jobs, implementing observability, and performing optimisations.

This module bridges theory and practice, preparing you to work with enterprise-scale data pipelines and analytics platforms.

What you’ll learn

Here are the key topics you’ll learn – from a Python library to key data engineering tools.

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  • Orchestration

  • Pandas (Python Data Analysis Library)

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    Query Optimisation

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    Data Warehouse Design

  • Data Architecture

  • AWS Athena & Glue

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    Apache Spark

  • Databricks

  • ELT (Extract, Load, Transform)

Live Lectures

Learn through interactive sessions live on Zoom, led by experienced tutors.

Practical Learning

Apply the content from the lectures with practical katas and real-life projects.

Experienced Instructors

Learn through an OFSTED Outstanding provider and from developers with years of teaching experience.

Built around your career goals

Upgrade your software skills to take you further in your career.


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Learning Options

Select supported learning for a fully guided, collaborative experience, or tackle it independently with live lectures and self-guided practical exercises.

Supported learning

Our full learning experience: upskill in AI and Machine Learning with support every step of the way. Join live interactive lectures, participate in workshops, and collaborate with coursemates from 8.30 to 17.00, with tutors available for guidance throughout the day.

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Self-guided learning

Join 10 interactive lectures live on Zoom, for a total of 15 hours of live teaching. Dive into the day’s topic through a 1h30 interactive morning lecture led by one of our tutors. You’ll be able to participate and ask questions, then you will receive self-guided materials to work on in your own time and build on the lectures’ topics.

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Upcoming Dates

Pace

Full-Time

Date

Jul 13 › Jul 24

Format

Supported learning – 8.30 to 17.00, Monday to Friday

Price

£1200
 

Pace

Part-Time

Date

Jul 13 › Jul 24

Format

Self-guided learning – Lectures at 10.30am to 12pm

Price

£850
 

Prerequisite Skills

Some knowledge is required to jump into this course.

You should be familiar with:

  • Proficiency in Python
  • Fundamentals in SQL
  • Understanding of Data and Database Concepts
  • Awareness of Cloud & Infrastructure

And have Python 3.x and PostgreSQL installed and configured on your computer.

Full details here.

Book your course

  • Supported learning

    Full-time, 8.30 to 17.00

    In-depth support: live lectures, workshops, pair programming, and direct tutor support.

    £1200

  • Self-guided learning

    Live lectures + self-led exercises

    Join live morning lectures daily (10.30am to 12pm) then complete practical coding exercises in your own time.

    £850

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