# The 2025 AI + Data Engineering Roadmap

DevFeed: [The 2025 AI + Data Engineering Roadmap](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/the-2025-ai-data-engineering-roadmap-27255.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.dataexpert.io/p/the-2025-breaking-into-data-engineering-roadmap>)

Author: Zach Wilson

Published: 2025-10-17T22:35:45Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [DataExpert.io Newsletter](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/dataexpert-io-newsletter.md>)

Topics: [data-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data-engineering.md>), [Python](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/python.md>), [SQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sql.md>), [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [airflow](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/airflow.md>), [BigQuery](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/bigquery.md>), [Orchestration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/orchestration.md>), [Apache Spark](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/spark.md>), [data-modeling](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data-modeling.md>), [Data Quality](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data-quality.md>), [Embeddings](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/embeddings.md>), [Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/retrieval-augmented-generation-rag.md>)

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## AI overview

A 2025 roadmap for entering data engineering, covering foundational SQL and Python skills, distributed computing, orchestration, data modeling, data quality, AI and data integrations, portfolio projects, and personal branding.

## Source excerpt

Getting a data engineering job is complicated.