Director of Software Engineering (Java, Streaming)

FICO is a leading global analytics software company, helping businesses in 100+ countries make better decisions. They are seeking a director to lead the technical development of an analytic decisioning platform, overseeing backend and frontend engineering teams to enhance FICO’s streaming platform.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with product managers to understand priorities and usage scenarios of product features
• Work with stakeholders to comprehend and provide feedback on requirements for your software platform capability
• Provide leadership to your team to ensure positive customer outcomes, aligned autonomy, a spirit of innovation, a bias for action, clear and transparent communication, community of trust, and commitment to move forward together
• Collaborate with other engineering leaders and cross-functional groups to ensure that the entire streaming platform is a success
• Continuously improve engineering practices for the software platform to support efficiency, reliability, and serviceability goals
• Coach and motivate your leaders and engineers to excel in their roles while fostering a learning culture
• Hire the best talent for your teams
• Participate in prospect/customer meetings on technology topics
• Participate in support activities for both cloud and on-premises implementations

Requirements:

• Deep understanding of software architecture and design principles, with a focus on building scalable and maintainable systems
• Experience in designing, building, deploying, and operating commercial software to provide a composable platform that can execute in low milliseconds at 10K+ TPS
• Significant expertise in Java and Spring with hands-on experience in modern software design patterns and open-source technologies
• Proven experience leading software development teams in delivering complex projects, including coaching and mentoring individuals
• Technical expertise across deployment models on public cloud, private cloud, and on-premises infrastructure
• Proficiency with Kubernetes and Docker for containerized application management
• Experience with database technologies such as MySQL, Oracle, or similar enterprise databases
• Skilled in Agile processes with outstanding communication abilities to articulate complex information to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Proficiency in one or more stream processing platforms such as Storm, Kafka, Flink, Spark Streaming, Kinesis, Dataflow, Pulsar, or Stream Analytics
• Experienced in domain-driven and event-driven architecture, along with data flow concepts and implementation experience
• Multi-cloud experience (AWS, Google, Azure) and familiarity with technologies like Cassandra, Zookeeper, Kustomize, and/or OpenSearch are preferred
• Experience in JavaScript, Angular, Python, and generative AI tools is beneficial