[monadmancer]

The White Walkers of the data science field are out the box enterprise solutions. These are enterprise software, data science consulting and ops solutions in a package. The corporate customer need not hold in house a data science team. The ambitions of the enterprise solutions (think DataRobot, H2o, etc) are to effectively bring one click production ready solutions that even C-level can participate in.

I see this is as the greatest threat to the demand of the "in house" data scientist.

If this turns out to be the case, I see the greatest demand for those who can write production grade code (i.e. software engineers) and those who are effectively trained data scientists. We see this job often called research scientist or research engineer.