Career Paths

Choose a practical enterprise technology career path

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Roles worth exploring

These paths are broad enough to fit different personalities. Some suit people who enjoy stakeholder work, while others suit people who enjoy building, data or system design.

Business Analyst

Great for people who enjoy understanding problems, documenting requirements and helping teams make better decisions.

Functional Consultant

Useful for people who like bridging business needs and practical solution delivery.

CRM Consultant

Good for people who enjoy customer processes, sales workflows, service operations and business systems.

Developer

Best for people who enjoy building software, automating work and creating user-facing solutions.

Power Platform Developer

Best for people who want low-code and pro-code skills together in business-focused delivery.

AI Engineer

Good for people who like building with modern tools, data and practical automation.

Data Analyst

Great for people who enjoy insight, reporting, analysis and helping teams make data-driven choices.

Data Engineer

Suitable for people who enjoy pipelines, data modelling, integration and reliable systems.

Solution Architect

Right for people who enjoy system thinking, integration, design decisions and delivery planning.

Enterprise Architect

Useful for people who want to shape strategy, standards, governance and long-term technology direction.

Cloud Architect

Best for people who enjoy platform choice, scalability, security and modern infrastructure decisions.

How to choose

Match the role to the kind of work you enjoy

Most people do not need to choose perfectly on day one. They need enough clarity to begin learning with direction.

If you enjoy people and process

Start with business analysis, functional consulting or CRM consulting.

If you enjoy building

Start with development, Power Platform development or AI engineering.

If you enjoy data and patterns

Start with data analyst or data engineer work.

If you enjoy system thinking

Move toward solution architecture, enterprise architecture or cloud architecture over time.

Practical next steps

Use a simple learning path

Choose one path, learn the fundamentals, then build evidence that shows how you think and deliver.

1. Learn the role

Understand the day-to-day work, common tools and typical problems the role solves.

2. Learn the delivery fundamentals

Requirements, workshops, testing, documentation and communication matter across most roles.

3. Build a small portfolio

Create sample work such as process maps, solution notes, test scenarios, dashboards or simple automation.