u/Little-Mine-4234

I have been at my company (big 4 credit bureau) for a little bit over a year after graduating college with a cs degree. The technology we use is an internal tool that is built on top of Apache spark and google cloud, in a graph based application with a little bit of sql involved to append credit data to client data format and send it back out to clients. In my current role it feels more and more like my job is getting automated and I am getting less and less technical. If I stay in my current role am I just pigeonholing myself to only work at this company? While the job description when I applied mentions ETL and data analysis, it does not feel like how it traditionally is at other companies. What jobs roles could I apply for with this position in the future?

For graduates, how has this program boosted your career? I am considering applying because my company will offer to pay and the cost of the tuition will be totally covered. The one thing I am wondering is if the name of school matters where I get my masters. I see this one has rolling admissions and it will allow me to complete it faster as it is self paced allowing me to look for data analyst roles faster. But I am wondering if I should take the extra year + money out of my pocket to attend something like Georgia tech. My current role uses a graph based internal tool built on top of spark and gcs but I want to switch into a more data analysis heavy role I just don’t have the experience with data analysis concepts or reporting. I figured because I have the ability to go after a masters I try for this one and try to switch laterally or at a different company. Do you think this masters is a good use case for me?