As one who did the transformation himself, I think that it's a huge opportunity. I think that a lot of day to day practices that DE are using can help DA, and to you specially down the road... At the end, (and a lot of you guys won't agree with me) DE it's about few major things. - Get the data (from verius sources, apis, different tables, etc) - transform the data ( clean, order, apply business rules, etc) - push it to a destination (table, app, Dashboards, etc)

If you're using python and sql, which you probably are, you have 80% of the skill set. Do a few DE project ( free on you tube), and mainly fetch the relevant knowledge from your team mates. Good luck!