Dev Team — Backend Data Engineering
Owns ELT pipelines, data modeling (dim/fact, semantic layers), and data quality in the warehouse. The load-bearing discipline for composable CDP architectures — without it, a composable stack drifts into chaos within months.
Capabilities the team enables. Identity resolution in the CDW, audience composition via SQL, data-quality SLAs, schema governance.
When this team is missing. Recommend packaged or hybrid architectures that require less DE muscle. The agent should not recommend "build it on Snowflake" to an organization without DE staffing — the recommendation will fail.