Vice President - Technical Architecture/ Platform Architecture

FICO

1d • Remote

About The Position

As a Vice President of Technical Architecture, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping and evolving the technical foundation of the FICO Platform. This is a unique opportunity for a hands-on architecture leader who combines deep platform architecture expertise with a strong bias for execution, working in close partnership with our engineering organization to bring architectural vision to life. As a senior architecture leader, you’ll bridge the critical gap between architectural strategy and engineering execution, ensuring our platform architecture evolves in a way that is practical, scalable, and aligned with business objectives. You’ll work closely with engineering teams to translate architectural principles into tangible outcomes, driving consistency, and technical excellence across the platform. This role is ideal for an experienced architect who is equally comfortable defining architectural direction and rolling up their sleeves to ensure successful implementation.

Requirements

• Extensive experience as a senior platform architect with a proven track record of designing, evolving, and implementing large-scale enterprise platform architectures in complex SaaS or PaaS environments.
• Demonstrated ability to drive architectural initiatives through successful implementation in close partnership with engineering organizations, with a strong track record of ensuring designs are practical, achievable, and delivered with excellence.
• Deep technical expertise in cloud-native architectures, microservices, distributed systems, and API design, with strong hands-on background in AWS cloud services and containerization technologies.
• Expertise in establishing architectural governance frameworks that balance consistency with engineering autonomy, with experience leading architecture review processes that drive alignment across large engineering organizations.
• Exceptional ability to balance long-term architectural vision with pragmatic near-term execution, making strategic decisions that have significant and lasting impact on platform capabilities.
• Outstanding communication and stakeholder management skills with proven ability to articulate complex architectural concepts to diverse audiences and build consensus across technical and business stakeholders.
• Strong passion for developing architectural talent with experience building communities of practice, mentoring senior engineers, and elevating technical capabilities across the organization.
• Bachelors/Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Refine and evolve the FICO Platform’s technical architecture strategy, defining and maintaining architectural principles, standards, and patterns that guide engineering teams in building scalable, reliable, and high-performance platform solutions.
• Work in close partnership with engineering leaders to drive execution of architectural initiatives throughout the delivery lifecycle, bridging the gap between architectural vision and engineering reality to ensure practical and achievable outcomes.
• Lead platform modernization initiatives including cloud-native transformation, API strategy, and microservices evolution, while identifying and resolving technical debt that impacts platform scalability and performance.
• Establish and maintain architectural governance frameworks, lead architecture review boards, and define KPIs that measure platform health, scalability, and technical alignment across engineering teams.
• Partner cross-functionally with Product Management, Cloud Operations, and Security teams to ensure architectural decisions support product roadmaps, infrastructure capabilities, and compliance requirements.
• Serve as a senior technical thought leader within the engineering organization, staying ahead of industry trends and championing innovative architectural approaches that leverage emerging technologies.
• Mentor and develop architects and senior engineers, building a strong community of practice around technical excellence and elevating architectural thinking across the organization.

Benefits

• Highly competitive compensation, benefits and rewards programs
• 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.
• An engaging, people-first work environment offering work/life balance, employee resource groups, and social events to promote interaction and camaraderie.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive