>> ask to see the data architect and if no one surfaces occupy the position yourself for a feww added bucks.
+1
My experience is that people who behave incompetently either are, in which case they make you look incompetent too, or they are well-practiced at converting their lack of performance into fault by you. The specter of additional $ causes some to buck up their act and the others are quietly grateful that somebody- anybody- is prepared to take responsibility. Whereas if you just keep asking, it'll end up as your black eye every time.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
