I have a degree in information systems which was a mix between business and IT. While I in my initial job search was really close on heading in the direction of becoming a developer, I instead landed a role as a business systems analyst as well as working with digital transformation. So basically I’m in the land between IT and the business. I do some super light programming for the platform I’m responsible for but I feel like it’s the kind of stuff you could learn in a day. I know some basic Java, Python and C# but not really enough that I’d see me landing a job that isn’t a trainee developer position or a job for newly-grads where the company doesn’t expect you to know anything at first.
While I don’t mind the social and more business-oriented aspects of the job, I’m kinda lamenting the fact that I didn’t enter into some trainee/junior dev job to sharpen up my programming skills and become a fully-fledged developer. I’d love to work fully remote and to be more flexible, e.g., not as bound to meetings and stuff which I currently am, or become a freelancer. Has anyone made a similar transition from digital transformation/adjacent areas to becoming a developer? Or am I just thinking too narrowly on what my options in this field are? Maybe there are many opportunities for fully-remote work in digital transformation, business system analysis and what not that I’m not seeing…?
I’ve been in software engineering (as a QA tester) and IT at different places. I don’t understand what transformation means, unless you’re scanning documents to digitize them or recording tape or similar. Perhaps you could elaborate.
I worked at an IT job that became fully remote after the pan. And I work an IT job now that’s hybrid. A friend is still at the place where I was on QA and they’re hybrid after the pan (for everyone and it’s a major tech company). I think it’s less about the role than the company for these types of jobs.
Quoting Wikipedia here, "Digital transformation (DT) is the process of adoption and implementation of digital technology[1][2][3] by an organization in order to create new or modify existing products, services and operations by the means of translating business processes into a digital format. ". It’s about digitalization pretty much.
I feel developers jobs can be remote because this kind of role is less expected to have a lot of inperson meetings compared to digital transformation or business analysis
Not sure about how to transition into dev except the classic “learn on the side and try to get involved in development tasks in your current job”
