Learn Data Architecture and Engineering
Design the structure, flow, and governance of data systems — from data models and warehouses to pipelines and lakes.
Why It Matters
- Core for Architects
- Part of Technical Architect
- High demand
Not completed
Finish a badge with a hands-on challenge, or a superbadge, to complete it.
Learn it
Finish one badge with a hands-on challenge, or a superbadge, to complete Data Architecture and Engineering.
Badges that complete it
Also teaches it
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Informatica Cloud Data Quality Basics
Explore how to assess and improve the quality of your organization’s data assets.
Badge
Agentforce Financial Services: Quick Look
Discover how Agentforce Financial Services brings data, AI, and industry workflows together.
Trails and Trailhead Journeys that include them
Trail
Developer Intermediate
Take your apps to the next level with powerful integration and mobile tools.
Trailhead Journey
Data 360
Unlock each stage of your data journey, starting with the basics and building toward Data 360 mastery. Learn how to unify customer data, activate insights in real time, and drive personalized engagement at scale.
Certifications that cover it
Related learning: a certification doesn’t complete the skill.
Certification
Salesforce Certified Technical Architect
Certified Technical Architects possess broad knowledge across multiple development platforms. They use their skills and experience to assess customer requirements and architecture, then use that knowledge to design secure, high-performance technical solutions that maximize the potential of the Salesforce Platform.
What you’ll be able to do
Every question and challenge for this skill checks one of these.
- Describe the relationship between sObjects and records.
- Describe the core financial services objects and how they relate.
- Apply cleansing rules to a data set.
Frequently asked questions
Design the structure, flow, and governance of data systems — from data models and warehouses to pipelines and lakes.
Complete a badge with a hands-on challenge that teaches it, like Apex Basics & Database.
Data Architecture and Engineering is core for Developers and Architects.
Yes. Salesforce Certified Technical Architect (opens in a new tab) covers it.
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