In this book, government agencies can discover how their IT teams can effectively collaborate with staff as they adopt modern data engineering tools and procedures. It outlines how IT teams lay the data engineering foundation to build reliable, high-performance data pipelines that can benefit the entire agency. It also explains how self-service data preparation and integration activities can be extended to analysts and data scientists. Finally, it will unpack how a cloud data platform enables government agencies to amass all of its data into one central location, making it easy to consolidate, cleanse, transform, and deliver that data to a wide range of analytic tools and securely share it with internal and external data consumers.