[Fiahil]

I agree with you. I've seen brilliant Data scientists struggling to understand how git branching works. But, as you say, their principal focus is applied statistics, not programming.

My role as a software engineer is to create a good enough architecture so their can use properly the information contained in their 60 GB CSVs.

As a side note, I also noticed that clients have no issue paying a lot for _Data Science_, but for the "software guys" ? That's a whole other story, despite being of equal importance to the project.