Software Engineering - Sr. Director

FICO

1d • Remote

About The Position

FICO (NYSE: FICO) is a leading global analytics software company, helping businesses in 100+ countries make better decisions. The company is seeking a senior director to lead the technical development of a decision intelligence platform. This role involves leading highly energetic global teams of software engineers responsible for FICO’s streaming analytics capabilities, specifically processing high-volume, low-latency decision intelligence execution. These capabilities are based on patented and unique market value, driving 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.

Requirements

• Experience designing, building, deploying, and operating commercial software that integrates sophisticated AI & ML stateful algorithms leveraging real-time aggregations (such as time windows), along with other forms of intelligence, all executing in low milliseconds.
• Experience with platforms that enable customers to build event-driven applications.
• Experience with commercial software that covers the entire life cycle of intelligence execution, from authoring to execution to observing.
• Experience leading software teams developing in Typescript, Java and Python.
• Ability to plan and drive your teams to an end state 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 event-driven and microservice architecture.
• Experience in building, tracking, and communicating plans within agile processes using agile program management tools.
• Experience coaching and mentoring individuals and teams across the globe.
• Experience with supporting production software deployments.
• Experience with commercial software product processes.
• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in computer science or related discipline.

Nice To Haves

• Preferred experience delivering and managing commercial software for multiple public cloud technologies, e.g., AWS, Google, Azure.
• Experience with Kubernetes and related ecosystem tools, as well as distributed processing platforms such as Storm, Flink, and Spark with nice-to-have.
• Experience with numerous database technologies that are fit for purpose and integrating decision, numerical programming, and AI/ML technologies is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• Coach your leaders and engineers to excel in their roles while fostering a learning culture and hiring the best talent for your teams.
• Participate in prospect/customer meetings on technology topics.
• Collaborate with technology suppliers to address FICO’s technology needs.

Benefits

• 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: $171,500 to $269,500 with this range reflecting differences in candidate knowledge, skills and experience.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees