VP Software Engineering

FICO (NYSE: FICO) is a leading global analytics software company, helping businesses in 100+ countries make better decisions. Join our world-class team today and fulfill your career potential!

The Opportunity

“Come join our product development team to provide thought leadership and innovation. This role provides the opportunity to develop a deep understanding of our business, work closely with customers, sales, professional services, and product management to architect, design and develop a highly feature rich product.” – CTO.

What You’ll Contribute

• Manage product development, owns full product responsibilities and drives new initiatives for overall product improvement.
• Partner with relevant stakeholders to attract talent, set goals, measure and reward performance.
• Possess expertise in new technologies, and contributes to product milestones by solving/ proactively avoiding most complex problems.
• Demonstrate high level of engagement to drive people towards organizational level goals.
• Effectively manage conflict founded on relationship building, fact-based decision management and a collaborative style.
• Identify root causes of issues and resolves them. Have a strong drive to alert the CTO proactively to emerging risks.
• Encourage innovation, foster a high-energy focused environment and engages with leaders and teams across the organization to ensure that our products and services drive value.

What We’re Seeking

• Bachelor’s/Master’s in Computer Science or related disciplines, or relevant executive management experience in enterprise software development in a global organization.
• Experience in collaborative development environments working closely with Professional Services, Sales, Analytics, IT, etc. with proven ability to develop and execute risk mitigation approaches.
• Experience in working in a distributed team environment, where coordinating effort across matrix teams was critical to success.
• Experience with multiple software development methodologies and their tools.
• Demonstrated innovation within software team(s).
• Demonstrated experience in building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers.
• Knowledge of best practices for the full software development life cycle.
• Ability to articulate the design walkthrough with architects and discuss strategy / requirements with teams.
• Ability to develop and implement a vision that integrates organizational goals and priorities.

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.

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, optimization, and much more.

FICO makes a real difference in the way businesses operate worldwide:

•    Credit Scoring — FICO® Scores are used by 90 of the top 100 US lenders.

•    Fraud Detection and Security — 4 billion payment cards globally are protected by FICO fraud systems.

•    Lending — 3/4 of US mortgages are approved using the FICO Score.

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 help 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 fulfil 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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