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#Company Reorg, Worse title, More advanced work, same pay, confused
summer path
Heyo, my consultant firm changed to software as a service and is going through a reorg. Before joining almost 2 years ago, I had a competing offer as a data engineer, but I took the job as a consultant of analytics. However, my skills are extremely technical, in that I am experienced in python (pandas, numpy, etc., but also sockets, multiprocessing, etc). I also experienced in SQL (window functions, CTEs, etc), and have even committed using Databricks to github many times in this role. (All of this is unlike my peers in this role who have none of these skills, and primarily work in EXCEL minus VBA/power query)
Now my company is re-organizing and my position no longer exists with it's title. It's being changed to Project Analytics, but I've been offered a lateral change to a new and more advanced position that is not client facing, and more back end. This means I'll be able to use my technical skills in a greater capacity. However, there is NO pay increase. The work will be better though.
Thing is, the title change is to Technical Data Analyst (used to be Consultant of Analytics and I have the chops to be a Data Engineer). I make low 6 figures, but the lack of pay increase and ... ambiguous title is making me a bit concerned about my resume. Is this title change on my resume, going to look like a step up from consultant of analytics?
undone tree
Neither title is one I'm super familiar with, but if it doesn't include "developer" or "engineer" it's probably going to be assumed to be less technical and less prestigious. Not sure there'll be a strong difference in reception between "consultant of analytics" and "technical data analyst". "Analyst" does tend to be more data oriented, but generally seen as an early career role
rapid swallow
Title doesn't matter, what you did and were responsible for does. Companies understand that titles do not match up well necessarily between them. Many of us use whatever industry standardish title best represents what we did on our resume. As long as you back it up, it's fine. Only the official title is used on background checks
There may be a tiny subset of companies that do care, but nothing that I have encountered or heard of