I really do appreciate the great insight, this IMO is relatively new career field at least I am not seeing as much on it as some of the other fields. My primary role is a data stewart (from definition). I generally maintain our data warehouse, including updates and inserts into our tables, but recently ~6 months ago have started developing tabular models, SSIS packages for ETL, agent jobs for automation, and even some time series mining structures, using ARIMA, ARTXp and the Mixed algorithm. Clearly not as senior as you guys/gals, but feel I have the aptitude and passion to continue down this path.

Like I said earlier, probably out of insecurity, I am a little nervous to get into this career field with my lack of programming skills, but that seems to be debunked by the series of threads in this post.

Someone mentioned SQL, I certainly have at least intermediate skills, windowing, derived tables, CTE's etc. I have begin to learn DMX to extract data from our mining structure to flatten into our relation dart mart for procurement analysis.

Sorry to be long winded but I wanted to get it out there. I'm hoping to work through the BI track from Microsoft to eventually become something more than a Business Analyst who impersonated a BI professional.

Thanks.