FICO - Senior Director - Software Engineering

The Opportunity :

"Senior Director to lead the technical development of an analytic decisioning platform. You will be leading highly energetic global teams of software engineers to create the next generation software platform for FICO's Identity and Access Management capabilities." - VP, Software Engineering.

What You'll Contribute :

- As 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.

- Responsible for designing and implementing platform wide authorization functionality leveraging RBAC, PBAC and ABAC models.

- 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.

- Manage communication with various stakeholders and executive leadership to ensure alignment.

- Facilitate and moderate tough discussions to keep programs on track and raise issues when needed.

- Develop reports/dashboards and communicate on a regular cadence to relevant stakeholders to keep everyone informed.

- Think strategically about how to solve root problems in a scalable and repeatable way to help improve FICO's product engineering globally.

- Gather feedback from key stakeholders and provide recommendations on the best way to advance your objectives.

- 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.

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 manager experience 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.

About FICO :

FICO (NYSE: FICO) is a leading analytics software company, helping businesses in 90+ countries make better decisions that drive higher levels of growth, profitability and customer satisfaction. FICO's groundbreaking use of Big Data and mathematical algorithms to predict consumer behavior has transformed entire industries. The company provides analytics software and tools used across multiple industries to manage risk, fight fraud, build more profitable customer relationships, optimize operations and meet strict government regulations.

Many of our products reach industry-wide adoption - such as the FICO- Score, the standard measure of consumer credit risk in the United States. FICO solutions leverage open-source standards and cloud computing to maximize flexibility, speed deployment and reduce costs. The company also helps millions of people manage their personal credit health.

Founded in 1956, FICO introduced analytic solutions such as credit scoring that have made credit more widely available, not just in the United States but around the world. We have pioneered the development and application of critical technologies behind decision management. These include predictive analytics, business rules management and optimization. We use these technologies to help businesses improve the precision, consistency and agility of their complex, high-volume decisions.

FICO- Platform is the only solution that can solve challenges across the entire customer lifecycle with an open architecture and an integrated set of capabilities to deliver game-changing customer experiences with real-time decisions, at scale bringing together data, analytics, machine learning & AI and human expertise.