Senior Principal Architect

Company: FICO
Location: San Jose
Posted on: August 8, 2022

Job Description:

The Opportunity
"Interested in shaping next generation architecture? We are seeking a Senior Principal Architect to lead architecture development for complex solutions, and coach other software architects in designing market-leading products. You will be joining a highly talented and energetic team of software architects to create the next generation software platform for all FICO software products."- Chief Architect
What you will do

• Work with stakeholders to comprehend business and technical requirements for a software platform
• Collaborate with technical product managers to understand priorities of product features
• Collaborate with user experience personnel to understand personas and usage scenarios
• Coach other software architects on creating their domain architectures
• Collaborate with and lead working groups of software architects to create software platform standards, guidance, and processes
• Build, track and communicate plans for the working groups that are creating software platform standards, guidance, and processes
• Participate in prospect / customer meetings on architectural / technology topics
• Collaborate with technology suppliers to address FICO's technology needs
  What we're seeking
  Required
  
  • Ability to define and drive architectural transformation to an end state that is based on simplicity, modern software design patterns, open-source software, and public cloud
  • Significant experience in large software product organizations preferably aligned to the financial services industry
  • Technical expertise across all deployment models including public cloud, private cloud, and on-premises infrastructure
  • Experience crafting well-architected software products based on domain driven design, event-driven microservice architectures, and open APIs
  • Experience crafting solutions that enable sophisticated data analytics including AI & ML across real-time environments (i.e. streamed data), data lakes, and warehoused data
  • Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science or related discipline
  • Experience creating, documenting, and communicating software architectures for complex products.
  • Strong experience with event-driven and service architectures.
  • Experience in building/tracking/communicating plans and architectures while coaching/mentoring teams.
  • Strong experience with cloud infrastructure, specifically AWS (prefer AWS architect certification) and Kubernetes.
  • Strong experience with Java technologies, REST web services, agile processes
  • Experience with CI/CD pipeline technologies
  • Experience with Python and Hadoop technologies
  • Experience with SQL and no-SQL technologies
  • Experience with supporting production software deployments
    Desired
    
    • Experience with multiple public cloud technologies, e.g. AWS, Google, Azure
    • Experience with Athena, Dremel, Kafka Streaming, MySQL, Couchbase, MongoDB, Spring, Prometheus
    • Experience integrating decision and numerical programming technologies
    • Experience integrating artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies
    • Experience with operational monitoring technologies (observability)
    • Experience with Scaled Agile processes
      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.

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