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12 weeks · Five capability pillars

Learn the tools. Practise the work around them.

The programme connects technical foundations with repeated practice, review and explanation. Your starting point and progress guide the level of work expected. Guaranteed mastery is not claimed. Online + Gurugram in-person · New batch starting soon.

Commitment summary: live Online formats and Gurugram in-person. Cloud work covers Google Cloud, AWS and Azure. Hands-on depth on each platform can vary by cohort. Bring a suitable laptop. Schedule is confirmed before enrolment.

01

Data

Turn raw information into a defensible business answer.

  • Data literacy
  • SQL & databases
  • Data modelling
  • Analytics
  • Data quality
  • Visualisation
  • Business metrics
  • Statistics
02

Engineering & Cloud

Build dependable data workflows with cost and operations in mind.

  • Python
  • Git / GitHub
  • Linux
  • APIs & JSON
  • ETL / ELT
  • Pipelines
  • BigQuery
  • IAM
  • Monitoring
  • FinOps basics
03

AI & ML

Create, evaluate and govern intelligent systems responsibly.

  • ML workflows
  • Model evaluation
  • GenAI
  • RAG
  • Embeddings
  • LLM evaluation
  • Agentic AI
  • Tool calling
  • Human approval
  • Responsible AI
04

Delivery & Operations

Understand how technology work moves through a real organisation.

  • Agile
  • Scrum & Kanban
  • SDLC
  • Estimation
  • Risk
  • Incident management
  • Problem management
  • RCA
  • Change
  • Escalation
05

Professional Effectiveness

Make your work clear, credible and useful to other people.

  • Communication
  • Presentations
  • Business writing
  • Executive updates
  • Meetings
  • Ownership
  • Stakeholders
  • Ethics
  • Interviews
  • Professional confidence
Week by week

Focus / Work produced / Review

Week 00 · Diagnose

Baseline

Focus. Establish starting point

Work produced. Baseline tasks and goal statement

Review. Mentor baseline conversation

Week 01 · Foundation

Data + business

Focus. Business metrics and grain

Work produced. Metric definition note

Review. Challenge a dashboard number

Week 02 · Foundation

Python + SQL

Focus. Joins and transformations

Work produced. SQL with reconciled totals; Python with error handling

Review. Query and script walkthrough

Week 03 · Build

Data engineering

Focus. Reliable movement of data

Work produced. Pipeline with quality checks

Review. Failure and recovery discussion

Week 04 · Build

Cloud

Focus. Access, monitoring and cost

Work produced. Cloud access/cost note

Review. Explain what is running and why

Week 05 · Build

Analytics + statistics

Focus. Decision-ready analysis

Work produced. Analytical recommendation with limitations

Review. Stakeholder Q&A

Week 06 · Build

Machine learning

Focus. Evaluate before claiming lift

Work produced. Evaluated model baseline

Review. Metric and leakage critique

Week 07 · Build

Generative AI

Focus. Verify AI outputs

Work produced. Retrieval example with source checks

Review. AI decision log

Week 08 · Operate

Agentic AI

Focus. Bounded tool use

Work produced. Permission-bounded agent workflow

Review. Trace and approval check

Week 09 · Operate

Production operations

Focus. Restore then investigate

Work produced. Incident timeline/RCA

Review. Management update critique

Week 10 · Operate

Delivery readiness

Focus. Visible work and change

Work produced. Change-impact note

Review. Status update standard

Week 11 · Present

Capstone

Focus. End-to-end defence

Work produced. Capstone increments

Review. Capstone defence

Week 12 · Present

Hiring readiness

Focus. Explain evidence

Work produced. Interview evidence pack

Review. Mock interview feedback

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