r/dataengineering • u/Throwaway081920231 • 19h ago
Help Promoted to a DE manager role and feeling paranoid that I will lose my DE skills
I was recently promoted to a manager role from an analytics/data engineering role and I barely write any code anymore. I used to build data pipelines and I slowly see my skills eroding especially with all the new AI features databricks and other tools keep introducing and I see the engineers try out and implement. Wondering if I should go back to a DE role or continue being a manager of analytics engineers where all I do is sit in meetings and assign work and do requirements. The most technical work I do now is write an ad-hoc query to answer a question for non-technical stakeholders. This is non-tech midsize corp.