Vice President - Technical Architecture/ Platform Architecture

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

“As as Vice President of Technical Architecture, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping and evolving the technical foundation of the FICO Platform. This is a unique opportunity for a hands-on architecture leader who combines deep platform architecture expertise with a strong bias for execution, working in close partnership with our engineering organization to bring architectural vision to life. 

As a senior architecture leader, you’ll bridge the critical gap between architectural strategy and engineering execution, ensuring our platform architecture evolves in a way that is practical, scalable, and aligned with business objectives. You’ll work closely with engineering teams to translate architectural principles into tangible outcomes, driving consistency, and technical excellence across the platform. This role is ideal for an experienced architect who is equally comfortable defining architectural direction and rolling up their sleeves to ensure successful implementation.” - VP, Head of Architecture

​What You’ll Contribute

• Refine and evolve the FICO Platform’s technical architecture strategy, defining and maintaining architectural principles, standards, and patterns that guide engineering teams in building scalable, reliable, and high-performance platform solutions.

• Work in close partnership with engineering leaders to drive execution of architectural initiatives throughout the delivery lifecycle, bridging the gap between architectural vision and engineering reality to ensure practical and achievable outcomes. 

• Lead platform modernization initiatives including cloud-native transformation, API strategy, and microservices evolution, while identifying and resolving technical debt that impacts platform scalability and performance.

• Establish and maintain architectural governance frameworks, lead architecture review boards, and define KPIs that measure platform health, scalability, and technical alignment across engineering teams.

• Partner cross-functionally with Product Management, Cloud Operations, and Security teams to ensure architectural decisions support product roadmaps, infrastructure capabilities, and compliance requirements.

• Serve as a senior technical thought leader within the engineering organization, staying ahead of industry trends and championing innovative architectural approaches that leverage emerging technologies.

• Mentor and develop architects and senior engineers, building a strong community of practice around technical excellence and elevating architectural thinking across the organization.

What We’re Seeking

• Extensive experience as a senior platform architect with a proven track record of designing, evolving, and implementing large-scale enterprise platform architectures in complex SaaS or PaaS environments.

• Demonstrated ability to drive architectural initiatives through successful implementation in close partnership with engineering organizations, with a strong track record of ensuring designs are practical, achievable, and delivered with excellence.

• Deep technical expertise in cloud-native architectures, microservices, distributed systems, and API design, with strong hands-on background in AWS cloud services and containerization technologies.

• Expertise in establishing architectural governance frameworks that balance consistency with engineering autonomy, with experience leading architecture review processes that drive alignment across large engineering organizations.

• Exceptional ability to balance long-term architectural vision with pragmatic near-term execution, making strategic decisions that have significant and lasting impact on platform capabilities.

• Outstanding communication and stakeholder management skills with proven ability to articulate complex architectural concepts to diverse audiences and build consensus across technical and business stakeholders.

• Strong passion for developing architectural talent with experience building communities of practice, mentoring senior engineers, and elevating technical capabilities across the organization.

• Bachelors/Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

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: $210,000 to $330,000 with this range reflecting differences in candidate knowledge, skills and experience.
   

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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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