[WastingMyTime89]

> However, if E-team does give you the authority to call Product's bullshit, and tell Finance to stuff it, and not take direction from Eng leads, then you actually might be able to accomplish something really cool.

So what's the business case for having a data team independent of product, business and engineering?

Because as I see it the data team is a support function not q core part of the business. I'm sure it can be cool for you but if you are at odd with all the people actually creating value, what exactly do you bring to the table?

[higeorge13]

Engineering is building some schema, creates and uses multiple data stores , message queues, etc, eventually the queries do not longer work properly as the company scales and gets more and larger customers and hundreds of other issues. Doesn’t engineering need a proper data engineering team/dba/you name it to handle those?