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by twunde 2741 days ago
So the good news is that you have a CS degree and that does make a difference. When you switch jobs, you won't be at square one since you do have engineering experience and you've seen what works and what doesn't. However your going to need to spend time learning new skills, possibly on your own. It's helpful to look for industries or specialities that are orthogonal to what you've worked on. For example if you had worked at Epic on EDI, you might look for jobs involving EDI, healthcare, or datawarehousing. The other thing that would be useful is to specifically look at companies that are looking for generic engineers and/or are willing to train people in the tech skills that they'll use. Examples of that include Google/Facebook etc. Also make sure to talk to a few recruiters. They have a bad rap but they should be able to give you a sense of the market and what might make sense for you.
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What would be job titles for careers for a CS/software developer that are specifically based on data warehousing? I'd be interested in looking up such jobs and seeing their requirements.
You'll often see these entitled data engineers, data architects, data warehouse engineers. Terms to search for are data warehouse, data lake. Industries that use EDI tend to have datawarehousing jobs. These include healthcare, energy, retail shopping