FICO (NYSE: FICO) is a leading global analytics software company, helping businesses in 90+ countries make better decisions. Join our world-class team today and fulfill your career potential!
The Opportunity
"Come join our product development team to provide thought leadership and innovation. This role provides the opportunity to develop a deep understanding of our business, work closely with customers, sales, professional services, and product management to architect, design and develop a highly feature rich product." - VP, Software Engineering.
What You'll Contribute
As a an engineering leader, you will have an opportunity to build a world-class engineering team to empower our product and engineering organization to innovate at the speed of business. You are responsible for attracting, growing, and sustaining the best engineering talent globally.
You will bring to the team a proven track record of building an engineering organization through establishing mature software engineering practices, building strong relationship with DevOps enablement team, architecture, product and engineering, global technology services, cyber-security, education, professional services organizations, and other teams.
You will be responsible for designing and implementing platform wide authorization functionality leveraging RBAC, PBAC and ABAC models.
You will need to use data to inform decision making. Analyze data for trends and potential pain points and use this to prioritize and inform how to improve your engineering product.
You will manage communication with various stakeholders and executive leadership to ensure alignment.
You will facilitate and moderate tough discussions to keep programs on track and raise issues when needed.
You will develop reports/dashboards and communicate on a regular cadence to relevant stakeholders to keep everyone informed.
You need to think strategically about how to solve root problems in a scalable and repeatable way to help improve FICO's product engineering globally.
You need to gather feedback from key stakeholders and provide recommendations on the best way to advance your objectives.
You need to act as an agent for change within the organization to build strong teams and advance FICO's platform first agenda.
FICO Platform provides the ideal foundation companies need to marry the power of human expertise and logic with artificial intelligence and advanced analytics to drive smarter, faster, and more profitable business outcomes. You will be responsible for the overall success of your group in our product engineering organization that builds the world class FICO platform.
You will contribute to our mission which is to be at the heart of our clients' operations, from accelerating digital transformation to breaking down organizational silos to broadening credit access. We bring the power of human expertise and artificial intelligence together, enabling our clients to make real-time decisions that matter, at scale.
What We're Seeking
An experienced people manager and visionary leader who is passionate about developing leaders and growing others.
Ideal candidate possesses the following attributes: Lean thinker, agile mindset, strong listener, development experience, architecture experience, hands-on DevOps experiences, easily builds trusting relationships, focused on continual improvement, charismatic, strong leadership traits, high level of emotional intelligence (EQ) and experience with organizational change management.
Ideal candidate leads by example to embrace DevOps culture and mindset including culture of psychological safety, empowerment, experimentation, collaboration, co-create, continuous improvement, disagree and commit, and outcome over output.
Strong understanding of IAM principles, methodologies, and best practices.
Expertise in industry-standard IAM technologies, including Microsoft AD/Azure AD, Okta, Ping Identity, SailPoint, ForgeRock, etc.
Familiarity with security protocols (SAML, OAuth, OpenID Connect), encryption techniques
Strong development background with identity federation and RBAC/ABAC/PBAC
Experience with scripting languages (Python, PowerShell) and automation tools for security operations.
Working knowledge of network security concepts and infrastructure.
Strong background in application architecture development.
Must-be a highly technical and hands-on software engineering practitioner who can lead the engineering team with confidence and competency.
Expert in cloud technologies, strong experience and knowledge in developing and deploying cloud applications and enterprise platforms using Azure Cloud, AWS, or Google Cloud.
Strong experience with Agile software development, including Scrum and other methodologies. JIRA experience is a plus.
Experience with gRPC APIs, Kafka or Apache Pulsar, GitHub and other DevOps tools, AWS EKS, Spring Framework, Spring Boot MicroServices, and Spring Cloud Stream is a plus.
Certifications in Kubernetes, AWS, Java, and other related technologies are highly preferred.
Experience working asynchronously in a remote, distributed team. Experience leading global teams.
Strong communication skills, with clear verbal communication as well as written communication skills.
Collaborative style: partners well with cross-functional teams solve hard problems and to complete complex deliverables with quality and business outcome.
Ability to work across organizations with product management, architecture, product engineering, cyber security, UX, global technology services, legal, education and professional services.
Strong on influencing and relationship building while exceptional in conflict management skills.
Experience in software development, engineering, product management or program management, or equivalent experience with a proven ability to lead product and engineering organization.
People management experience in leading and developing teams.
Working experience of You-Build-it-You-Run-it model for PaaS is highly preferred.
Analytics and financial industry background is a plus.
Bachelor's degree in highly related field.
Advanced degree a plus.
Our Offer to You
An inclusive culture strongly reflecting our core values: Act Like an Owner, Delight Our Customers and Earn the Respect of Others.
The opportunity to make an impact and develop professionally by leveraging your unique strengths and participating in valuable learning experiences.
Highly competitive compensation, benefits and rewards programs that encourage you to bring your best every day and be recognized for doing so.
An engaging, people-first work environment offering work/life balance, employee resource groups, and social events to promote interaction and camaraderie.
The targeted base pay range for this role is: $161,000 to $253,000 with this range reflecting differences in candidate knowledge, skills and experience.
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Why Make a Move to FICO?
At FICO, you can develop your career with a leading organization in one of the fastest-growing fields in technology today - Big Data analytics. You'll play a part in our commitment to help businesses use data to improve every choice they make, using advances in artificial intelligence, machine learning, predictive and prescriptive modeling, and much more.
FICO makes a real difference in the way businesses operate worldwide:
Credit Scoring - 150+ billion FICO Scores have been sold to date, making it the most used credit score in the world.
Fraud Detection and Security - 2.6+ billion payment cards globally are protected by FICO fraud systems.
Lending - 3/4 of US mortgages are approved using the FICO Score.
Anti-Money Laundering - our solutions check more than half a billion transactions a day to prevent criminal schemes such as terrorist financing
Global trends toward digital transformation have created tremendous demand for FICO's solutions, placing us among the world's top 100 software companies by revenue. We support many of the world's largest banks, insurers, retailers, telecommunications providers and other firms reach a new level of success.
Our success is dependent on really talented people - just like you - who thrive on the collaboration and innovation that's nurtured by a diverse and inclusive environment. We'll provide the support you need, while ensuring you have the freedom to develop your skills and grow your career. Join FICO and help change the way business thinks!
Learn more about how you can fulfill your potential at www.fico.com/Careers
FICO promotes a culture of inclusion and seeks to attract a diverse set of candidates for each job opportunity. We are an equal employment opportunity employer and we're proud to offer employment and advancement opportunities to all candidates without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, pregnancy, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. Research has shown that women and candidates from underrepresented communities may not apply for an opportunity if they don't meet all stated qualifications. While our qualifications are clearly related to role success, each candidate's profile is unique and strengths in certain skill and/or experience areas can be equally effective. If you believe you have many, but not necessarily all, of the stated qualifications we encourage you to apply.
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