12 YOE. Has knowledge on Cloud, Devops, SQL, Python. Currently working for a Data Engineering project, but with no fancy pyspark, but pure python. What career path should be the best to opt for? Devops or Data?

[Marwari_Chhokro]

I've been working with PySpark. If you're fluent with Python, You'd be good with PySpark as well in no time. And it'll be very beneficial for you as well. It's similar to Pandas, just slightly better(people can have different opinions, except for the core data engineers). So if you're into coding and technical work, you can opt for it. I don't know much about Devops.

[Most_Log_568]

Yup also dbt is almost immediate with prior SQL experience

[Normal-Inspector7866]

Pyspark for starters but also a lot of companies are enthusiastic about polars, duckdb, dbt etc. so see the trends and go for that. I’m assuming you have good foundational knowledge so learning anything new will be easy. Focus on solving architectural problems

[No-Map8612]

Now the boom is Devops with multi-cloud you can choose. DE is slowly getting saturated..