Software Engineering-Sr Director (Low Latency, AI/ML, Java, C++)

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

“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 transaction analytics and feature management capabilities. This role involves leading multiple backend and frontend engineering teams responsible for transactional processing of high-volume low latency decisioning and analytics execution. 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 cutting edge technology applied to one-of-a kind business problems.” – Vice President, Software Engineering

What You'll Contribute

• Work with stakeholders to comprehend and provide feedback on business strategy and requirements for your set of software platform capabilities.
• Collaborate with product managers to understand priorities and usage scenarios of product features.
• Collaborate with user experience personnel to understand personas within usage scenarios.
• Provide leadership to your teams 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 engineering practices for the software platform to support efficiency, reliability, and serviceability goals.
• Create a learning culture.
• Coach your leaders and engineers to excel in their roles.
• Hire the best talent for your teams.
• Participate in prospect/customer meetings on technology topics.
• Collaborate with technology suppliers to address FICO’s technology needs.

What We're Seeking

• Experience designing, building, deploying, and operating commercial software that integrates sophisticated AI & ML stateful algorithms leveraging real-time aggregations (such as time windows) executing in low milliseconds.
• Experience with commercial software that covers the entire lifecycle of intelligence execution, from authoring to execution to observing.
• Experience with integrating model development tools within AI & ML tools such as Jupyter and Sagemaker.
• Experience leading software teams developing in Typescript, Java and C++.
• Ability to plan and drive your teams to an end state that is based on simplicity, modern software design patterns, open-source software, and cloud environments.
• Ability to perform any of the engineering tasks done by your team.
• Technical expertise across all deployment models on public cloud, private cloud, and on-premises infrastructure.
• Experience with domain-driven, event-driven, and micro-service architectures.
• Experience in building, tracking, and communicating plans within agile processes.
• Experience coaching/mentoring individuals and teams.
• Experience with supporting production software deployments.
• Experience with commercial software product processes.
• Bachelor’s/master’s degree in computer science or related discipline.
• Experience with delivering and managing commercial software for multiple public cloud technologies, e.g., AWS, Google, Azure desired.
• Experience with Kubernetes and its eco-system desired.
• Experience with code generation desired.
• Experience with numerous caching technologies desired.
• Experience with distributed synchronization algorithms desired.
• Experience with numerous database technologies that leverage multiple types of indices desired.
• Experience integrating decision and numerical programming technologies desired.
• Experience integrating artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies desired.

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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