Job title change. Bad for career?

So I'm working as a Business Analyst for a large engineering firm on a contract and they want to hire me full-time. However, they want to change my job title to Operations Specialist upon my hire, as they want to expand my duties beyond data analysis to include some administrative operations stuff. My goal is to become a data scientist, and I was wondering if this job title change is going to be viewed negatively in the future when I'm …

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