Professional Data Engineer

Why attend

• Validates end-to-end data engineering capability, from ingestion and processing through storage and delivery
• Confirms the ability to design data infrastructure that meets business and regulatory needs
• Google Cloud's professional-level benchmark for data platform teams

Who should attend

• Data engineers with 3+ years of industry experience, including 1+ year designing and managing data solutions on Google Cloud, per Google's recommendation
• Data architects and analytics engineers building on BigQuery, Dataflow, and the wider Google data stack
• Teams operationalising data platforms with security and governance requirements

What you'll learn

• Design data processing systems
• Ingest and process the data
• Store the data
• Prepare and use data for analysis
• Maintain and automate data workloads

Prerequisites

None. Google recommends 3+ years of industry experience, including 1+ year designing and managing solutions on Google Cloud.

Examination

2 hours, 40 to 50 multiple-choice and multiple-select questions, delivered online-proctored or onsite-proctored. Offered in English and Japanese.

Certification

• Valid for 2 years; renewal eligibility opens 60 days before the expiry date
• The certification and exam are issued by Google Cloud; DAI provides the training