Agree with this. I think a good 75% of the value I've delivered in data engineering roles has been on proficiency building out cloud infrastructure, CICD, etc.

Agree with this. I think a good 75% of the value I've delivered in data engineering roles has been on proficiency building out cloud infrastructure, CICD, etc. Teams hire data engineers when the analysts are spending too much time and effort (and failing to succeed at) building data pipelines. Often there is a significant need for engineering and cloud infrastructure improvements beyond fixing up a few wonky python ETLs and broken SQL queries.