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Data science as a title has bifurcated several times. A lot of the engineering heavy DS roles are now data engineer or machine learning engineer. Probably those are the roles you should be looking for. Many of the DS jobs now are essentially analyst jobs, where SQL and stakeholder management is 75% of the role and writing code is just a bonus.

Data science isn't going away. Leadership is always going to need numbers explained to them, but DS roles have never been as numerous or as well paid level for level as software engineering.