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In your situation, start writing software at your current job.

If your company is smaller and has software devs, ask them for tasks

If not, just start coding things to automate your tasks or make things easier or grow new business lines

After 4-6 months of this, ask for a title change to software developer .

Then your job search will be easier as you will have real world experience and check a lot more boxes on resume screens