I think this post is closest aligned to my understanding of the situation. Literally marketing needs a lot of technical work done, they have enough funding and

I think this post is closest aligned to my understanding of the situation. Literally marketing needs a lot of technical work done, they have enough funding and influence that they can hire their own technical staff instead of 'queuing' up work requests from the centralized technical staff. Depending on your frame of reference this is either a management failure, or a nimble 'multitasking' management structure. I would probably come down on 'management failure' but thats very subjective.