FICO

Principal Engineer - (Database/Agile)

Posted on: 1 Jun 2021

Fairfax, VA | Miami, FL | Bozeman, MT

Job Description

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, develop and deliver highly feature rich products” – VP, Software Engineering.

What You’ll Contribute

Drive the technical architecture and design of a world-class enterprise level product.
Enhance productivity and quality, coach and solve complex problems within technology areas. Involve in setting direction and overall vision for the product development.          
Develop the product and client solution architecture and create software architecture within SDLC process.
Provide technical expertise and mentoring to Client facing teams
Work on a wide range of complex projects, assignments and issues, and exert influence in related areas.
Evaluate new design specifications and raise quality standards, address architectural concerns.
Support sales and professional services teams.
Evaluate stability, compatibility, scalability, interoperability, and performance of software product.
Bring innovative ideas to improve product features and delivery practices.Ensure FICO’s analytic and decision capabilities are incorporated into the product and solutions to achieve greater business outcomes
Build/maintain strong relationships with Development team and Technical Product Managers.

What We’re Seeking

Bachelor’s/Master’s in Computer Science or related disciplines, or relevant experience in software architecture, design, development and testing.
Expert in architecture design with strong foundation of architecture models and data structures.
Demonstrated innovation within the software team.
Expert on database concepts and programming; quick learning and implementation of new solutions and technologies.
Experience in writing product specifications and documenting product features to present them to a wider audience; producing and maintaining demos.
Ability to articulate the design with architects and discuss strategy/requirements with teams.
Knowledge of best practices for the full software development life cycle, agile methodologies, including coding standards, secure code coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.

Our Offer to You

A culture and work environment strongly reflecting our core values:  Act Like an Owner, Delight Our Customers and Earn the Respect of Others.
The opportunity to make a difference by leveraging your unique strengths.
Highly competitive compensation and rewards.
Flexible work options, opportunities to give back to your community, social events with colleagues and a comprehensive benefits program inclusive of progressive parental leave.

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

FICO

San Jose, CA

FICO at a Glance

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.

A Global Presence

FICO has offices throughout the world serving industries including financial services, health care, insurance, automotive, public sector, retail, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, travel and hospitality, media and entertainment, high tech and utilities.

Fortune 500 Clients

FICO clients include more than half of the top 100 banks in the world, more than 600 personal and commercial line insurers in North America and Europe including the top 10 US personal lines insurers, 400+ retailers and general merchandisers, including one-third of the top 100 U.S. retailers, 95 of the 100 largest financial institutions in the U.S., and all the 100 largest U.S. credit card issuers and more.

  • Industry
    Banking/Financial Services
  • No. of Employees
    3,400+
  • Jobs Posted
    137