I agree, if anything the data engineers (folks with engineering backgrounds) should be doing the applied work while a department of data scientists works on the theoretical or novel data analysis methods.
Right now our product has accumulated a lot of technical debt on the data validation side because data scientists designed the test code in a way that dramatically slows the development process.
Right now our product has accumulated a lot of technical debt on the data validation side because data scientists designed the test code in a way that dramatically slows the development process.