Transition from Software Engineering at JPMorgan Chase into a "Social" Finance Job

I currently work as a Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase on the Chase side (~2 years of experience). I also did a Software Engineering Internship at NASA fwiw.

Anyways, I would prefer to work a job that is more social and finance-related. I was specifically interested in Institutional Sales or Sales & Trading. It seems like I need an MBA or a finance work experience before breaking into that? Although, I can code -- which is seems to be a preferred qualification. I went to a non-target school with a major in Computer Science and a GPA of ~3.5

Does anyone have any advice for how to break into a social/finance/market-related career? Is even feasible without an MBA?

Thanks for reading

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