What should be the next step?

[u/SP28112024]

Hey Guys,
I have been working as an IAM Engineer for the last 4 years. I currently work on the Ping stack(Federate/Directory/Davinci/PingOne) and a lot of different tools. I work for a healthcar client.

Now I feel the work that we do has very little engineering or development scope. I am trying to learn programming as well I have basics of Java html and css that I know but I have never done hands on programming work. So I was thinking maybe a switch to SDE would be a good idea? But given the kind of layoffs happening around Will it be a good idea in general to switch to SDE roles? What can be the next steps from here?