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Owning an Ambiguous Data Request

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Tell me about a time you were given a vague or changing data engineering goal—such as building a pipeline, fixing a reporting issue, or supporting a client request—and you had to create clarity, prioritize the work, and drive it to completion. What did you do, and what was the outcome?