[hobs]

I currently do that job as a Data Architect - kind of a mouthful lol but it covers the gamut of understanding the entire business as an abstract set of data flows, being responsible for the ingest and outflows of data, the level of quality in our overarching system, managing data engineers, developers, business folks all accessing said data, at the end of the day explaining what it all means to our clients and devs via standard modeling stuff and more targeted things as needed.

[edmundsauto]

You mention that you manage data engineers. Where does your role not overlap w/ a data eng?

[hobs]

In our team its mostly a difference of business focus and the overarching responsibility - most data engineers I work with manage a major leg of the business and are responsible for their domain but I am responsible for all of them.

I certainly spend time coding (especially because again, small-medium startups cant afford anyone in the data space who isnt able to heave ho) but much of it is translating pretty vague stuff into market research/a proof of concept/an initial design of what will bring value to the business and scale alright and then often more people will throw in.

That being said you can call me whatever you want, as long as its not late for dinner :)