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That is good perspective. If I understand you correctly: if I were to move to the tech industry, my product / industry knowledge of banking will be more valuabl

• bdcravens 5y ago
  Yes. When developers take on new projects or roles, the programming isn't the hard part; it's the domain. There's also a lot of momentum in the fintech world these days.
• pg_1234 5y ago
  Correct. More specifically a finance expert with enough understanding of programming to communicate clearly and plan collaboratively with programmers would likely be more valuable than anything they could become as a programmer. This is particularly true if as you say you're already in management. (Mainstream IT management of projects intended for skilled users outside of tech is still typically a disaster.) An expert individual contributor (some sort of trader?) in a high value finance niche might be valuable if they combined skills and wrote code for their previous role, but by management level your equivalent peer in tech may well be a dev manager. The role you are likely to be most valuable in is straddling a finance management position and what tech would call a product owner. And, yes, as you seem to understand, your peak value to a company would likely be planning systems that would ultimately automate/destroy the jobs of of many of your previous peers and reports. The combining of domain expertise is the key, if you're a success in your mid 30's you need to use what you have, not replace it.