Rant of a Data Analyst

I work for a growing startup in Bangalore. The data team size is very small with no data lead. Not a single query we hit the DB gives any result. Owing to cost cutting my firm has cut down the instance size and they're planning to downgrade the DB too. We data analysts are relying on the data engineering team to fetch us results for our queries which takes a long time to get a single table. This is highly inefficient. The data size is growing at a massive scale however the analytics efforts are trickling down due to poor infrastructure.

Is this happening in your data team too? How can I solve this problem given there are no experienced data leaders in our firm to voice out.