Yea.. but dba role punya days are counting especially with micro services event sourcing and cloud.

Deswai i quit dba and become solutions architect.. much more career progression.

sadly cant goyang kaki, everyday meeting and presentation.

It's everything. Including delivering the long term support procedures. Basically starting from getting requirements from BA... everything onwards is the SA's role from start to end until the termination of the IT solution.

Which includes from proposal to procure hardware/cloud Infrastructure and frameworks...  to system architecture/module design and even hiring / finding outsource dev, performing code review various QA stuff to lastly also hiring helpdesk haha.... deswai alot of meeting and have to listen to alot of sales pitch   and worse is stalking on vendor's progress.

afaik.. the pay ranges from 7k sgd all the way to 20+k sgd.

Never too late bro, I jump to IT from engineering too.Started with 0.Now ok already can make decent living..

DEGREE in IT overkill but in cooperate level especially project type need  degree
IT doesnt mean programming only

You just need the will to learn and right logics…

interesting...

RM6k a month from driving busses already cukup makan. Why need so much money?

No lor... working in Conglomerate corp so have many different businesses under the main umbrella.. im under asia pacific region HQ... so there's many diff systems and it's never ending. Of course got few other SA as well. BA alone got 20+ people so you can imagine haha (SA of course fewer)

Yes no internal dev.. actually only around 10 mainly to judge the outsource, do consulting and occasionally doing adhoc support and troubleshooting before escalating to vendor to fix... in short super senior developers haha.

Depending on project size and quantity lor... handling small and few project then small pay, big projects and many then high pay... especially mission critical ones. Note it's SGD ya.... sharepoint can get 9k SGD meh?

Sharepoint salary on average i think 5k? Your friend probably very lucky then. Cuz it's not that technical... alot of yindia capable already available as we outsourced our sharepoint project one off for very cheap and now maintained by a system admin.

Well it's not a small company it's pretty big.
we have many business entities in the region and separate requirements so cant expect 1 vendor to do all. the current outsourced dev all combined headcount is a 1000+...

That's why we have inhouse BA, SA, and very senior software engineers to act as the control tower for all the systems in the region especially when all of the systems have to interface with accounting and analytics in the end. The scale is too big already.

So yeah treat it as the system is our in house product and we have the full ownership, the vendor is basically a just a manpower provider.

Also alot of trade secret in the workflow such as on the assembly line management methods and supply chain management... so when we get diff vendors to develop diff modules and then only piece the whole system together then the "secret" wont be leaked to outside

Probably just lucky and probably cant get the same figure when quit... cuz got a contact in equinix who is a senior SP also 7K nia. 

Bruh.. dev team in SG is 3k min a month per head. Outsourced dev team is 1/3 of that manpower cost. Then when no active big project and only need like 300 dev... then the remaining 700+ how? Cant just simply fire them lol.

Also the company is not a tech company, no purpose of keeping so many dev inhouse. Just a few super experienced software engineer is enough to lead the outsource dev.