Consulting across 12 companies in the software development and delivery over the past 10 years - I haven't worked with - or even come across a single DBA in tha

Consulting across 12 companies in the software development and delivery over the past 10 years - I haven't worked with - or even come across a single DBA in that time. There are people working in data analytics / warehousing / "big data" but I don't think that's the same as a traditional DBA role where you're smashing out SQL. I suspect DBAs are still around in older enterprises or maybe large companies with very complex databases - but I don't think you'd see many in modern software development.