Director, Solution Architecture Practice (Sales)

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 "Are you a skilled Solutions Architect with a passion for driving technology adoption in the financial services industry? FICO is looking for a dynamic professional to play a key role in helping clients accelerate their platform adoption. This role involves collaborating with technology executives, developing reference architectures, and establishing best practices across critical financial domains such as fraud prevention, marketing, originations, account management, and collections. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in enterprise architecture, a strong understanding of financial services, and a keen ability to shape platform strategy." - Hiring Manager

What You'll Contribute

• Co create technology strategy with client to fast-track platform adoption - develop deep relationships with client technology executives, understand client technology roadmap and landscape and co create platform roadmap to accelerate adoption. Instill confidence on the proposed solutions with majority of potential know-hows/ pit falls on the platform adoption roadmap.
• Creating Reference Client Adoption Architectures - develop reference client architectures based on successful implementations across domains such as Fraud, Marketing, Originations, Account Management, and Collections keeping an eye on their data/ integrations landscape.
• Defining Best Practices - establish best practices around the platform, covering topics like Integrations, Data, Security, Scalability, Resilience, Composability, Extensibility and Cost.
• Pattern Library - curate and validate an adoption pattern library that includes cross-cutting practices related to Authentication, Authorization, Role Management, Release Management etc.
• Overarching Support - collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to incorporate updates on platform evolution, provide feedback to enhance the platform/Work with Delivery teams to showcase best-in-class references from real-life implementations/Empower sales and pre-sales with collaterals to instill confidence in clients regarding platform adoption best practices./Support the Platform Success Manager teams to remove obstacles on platform adoption and cross sell, post sales.

What We're Seeking

• 10+ years of relevant experience working as an Enterprise Architect/ Solutions Architecture in a sizeable organization.
• Deep understanding of Financial industry capability landscape with hands on experience of EA frameworks like TOGAF/ Zachman/ BIAN or similar.
• Deep and hands on experience on Credit Policy implementation throughout customer lifecycle – Marketing , Originations, Account Management, Collections etc. for secured and unsecured consumer lending.
• Experience with Mortgage, Commercial Lending, Leasing and/or wealth management a plus.
• Hands on exposure on any Applied intelligence platform is a plus (FICO, Sas, PEGA CDH, Databricks etc.).
• Deep knowledge on architecture principles – Microservices, Domain Driven Designs, Composability, Extensibility, Scalability etc.
• Good team player, excellent attitude and communication skills.
• Open for travel as this is a global role(50% national and international travel).

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: $112,000 to $176,000 with this range reflecting differences in candidate knowledge, skills and experience.

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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