Would you move from Amazon Business Analyst to a Product Manager or go external to Facebook/Google as a Data Engineer/Data Scientist? Amazon TC 90 —> Potential to join business side Facebook/Google TC 160 —-> Build technical skills Consider long-term impact of wanting to move up in the company. TC and external experience would also be valuable.
Technical skills are worth more than soft skills. Go as technical as you can handle early in your career, then move up from there. The more technical the role, the less competitive to get the position for the same $$$.
Data scientist will make way more
What about data engineer?