Moving from HF back to sell side trader at a BB?

Bit of background, spent 3 years out of uni at an American BB as a sell side trader before moving to a small-ish (3-4bn AUM) macro HF to be a junior PM (this is my 2nd year in). For reasons i won't delve into, i want to move back to sell side trading (ideally at a BB).

I was wondering how difficult is to transition back to the sell side? The reason i'm asking is that i left when S&T, i was associate 1, and after spending 2 years on the buy side, not sure whether there would be any banks hiring a senior associate/VP role (especially when i realistically have only 3 years sell side trading experience). Seems like i'm in a position where i am too junior to hire as a VP (or lack the experience) but too senior to take as a junior associate as well (particularly banks who like to grow teams organically and would rather just take an analyst and train them up).

Anyone shed some light into this?

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