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
"We are seeking a director to lead scrum coaches and releases for an analytic decisioning platform. You will be leading a highly energetic team of scrum coaches for software teams developing the next generation software platform for FICO's software transaction analytics and feature management capabilities. These capabilities embody patented and unique market value that drives critical business value in a high growth area. This opportunity offers a unique leadership role to work with development teams building cutting edge technology applied to one-of-a-kind business problems." - Hiring Manager
What You'll Contribute
Work closely with product managers to understand priorities and usage scenarios of product features.
Collaborate with various teams contributing to releases to manage dependencies and ensure a smooth, error-free delivery of releases to production.
Provide leadership to your team for positive customer outcomes, aligned autonomy, a spirit of innovation, a bias for action, clear & transparent communication, community of trust, and commitment to move forward together.
Collaborate with other engineering leaders to ensure the entire software platform is a success.
Continuously improve agile practices for the software development teams to support efficiency, reliability, and serviceability goals.
Foster a learning culture, coach scrum coaches for excellence, and recruit top talent for your teams.
What We're Seeking
Bachelor's/Master's degree in computer science or related discipline.
Experience coaching teams to engage in a continuous planning culture.
Experience managing complex dependencies between various teams that play different roles within software releases.
Skilled with Atlassian tools such as Jira and Jira Plan to track progress of software releases.
Demonstrate proficiency in understanding capacity planning within a culture of continuous planning.
Experience in building, tracking, and communicating plans within agile processes.
An ability to critically assess risks and the estimates used in planning.
Proficiency in identifying and responding effectively to significant events within projects.
Experience mentoring individuals and teams.
Experience with commercial software product agile processes.
Experience in delivering and managing commercial software for multiple public cloud technologies is a plus, e.g., AWS, Google, Azure.
Preferred experience planning and delivering for teams that utilize a "you-build-it-you-run-it" culture.
Prior experience as a software engineer, quality assurance engineer or DevOps engineer is nice to have.
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: $119000 to $187000 with this range reflecting differences in candidate knowledge, skills and experience.
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.
Information submitted with your application is subject to the FICO Privacy policy at https://www.fico.com/en/privacy-policy