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Is there any particular technology area you are interested in?I would like to coordinate this with a change of industry and/or role also, to open more doors if possible.
Is there any particular technology area you are interested in?
@Leo As I would be moving from a decent day rate contract position to a perm position it is likely I will get an absolute shock to the system in terms of salary anyway. May as well take one big hit (hopefully for a short enough term) rather than multiple small onesOne challenge of changing industry or role too much is the lack of relevant experience might put you back a couple of grades.
Yes, that is an option if I decide to go down the vendor route - which is one option. The other one I am considering at the moment is a jump into advisory/consultancy, which may allow me to maintain some level of salary in the short term.Perhaps a more to a larger organisation with a broader variety of technology / products might allow you to enter at a more senior level and then move laterally to other roles after you prove yourself.
Yes, I imagine the route is a pretty familiar one. The true technology SI role is very much a younger person's game. You took the jump to a vendor, which is something I have considered.I started off in IT consultancy, bit of a jack of all trades, coding, DB work, solution work and am now gone permament with an Dublin-based Irish IT company that produce insurance IT products.
Its not I am against development; I started my career in it back in the day, its just I am very far removed from it at the moment. PO is a good option, but not sure if I would be deemed too senior for that type of a role.IT products. I think you could be a good fit for analyst or product owner type role, if you don't want to be in development or team lead.
I have been very lucky to date in that regard and while I a lot of travel in the past the last decade as been Dublin based. But yes, the solution space requires very big companies with large IT footprints to work. You have to be patient for these types of roles to appear.It can be hard in permanent positions to find that 'solution' space that exists on consultancy projects - unless you are willing to travel to integrate the product solution on site.
I think any new job will have something new to learn. This is one of my concerns with the current role - I have been there too long so the learning curve has been taken out of it. I am quick at picking up business/industry knowledge. Its probably one of my strongest skills is working out how things workI am enjoying it, learning lots about scrum \ working in agile teams which would be transferrable skills in future. A lot of the work though is domain specific knowledge, so that might give you pause.
That's what I think myself as well - but thought I would ask in case anyone had some magic ideas that could help me. Time to tap into that network I have !ps I think this is one to discuss with colleague or a recruiter that speciailises in IT, I think your skill set is a little niche whereas most recruiters will be just looking for developer, tester, team lead etc
Good advice in general and something I will definitely have a think about.Look around at the guys 10 years older than you, and decide which one you want to be in 10 years, then ask how he got there.
Without doubt, the work/life balance is something that cannot be ignored, especially when it comes to hours worked, ability to go to the school plays/matches, reduced international travel etc. I am relatively spoiled in my current role at the moment, and this is one of the challenges !!the pay cut was worth being able to leave at 5 every day
Absolutely agree here, and while I have tried to stay somewhat ahead of the game, its not as easy as it sounds. The place I work have their own way of doing things, so I have lost most of my industry standards knowledge and will have to brush up on them againThe whole IT world is being turned upside down for sure and will look a lot different in the next 10 years.
Its funny, I was talking to my old CTO last night and he strongly recommended the cloud space [xAAS] and integration aspect of this work in particular. He reminded me that this is where I am not only strongest in, but also the area I am most passionate about. I have been one of the main promoters of SAAS and Open API standards within the organisation for a number of years (mostly fell on deaf ears).Regarding your experience, I would think a very obvious route for you is to skill up in AWS/Azure. It's not my own area (yet) but there seems to be buckets of work out there for it and if you're certified you could extend the number of years at decent rates for another while yet
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