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FICO · 2 weeks ago

Director, Solution Architecture Practice (Sales)

FICO is a leading global analytics software company, helping businesses in 100+ countries make better decisions. They are seeking a skilled Solutions Architect to drive technology adoption in the financial services industry by collaborating with clients and developing reference architectures across critical domains such as fraud prevention and marketing.

AnalyticsBig DataCollection AgencyConsultingFinancial ServicesFraud DetectionPredictive AnalyticsSoftware
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Responsibilities

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

Qualification

Enterprise ArchitectureFinancial Services ExpertiseCredit Policy ImplementationEA Frameworks TOGAFEA Frameworks ZachmanApplied Intelligence PlatformsArchitecture PrinciplesCommunication SkillsTeam Player

Required

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)

Benefits

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.

Company

Fair Isaac Corporation enables businesses to automate, improve, and connect decisions to enhance business performance. It is a sub-organization of FICO.

H1B Sponsorship

FICO has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$1.5B
2025-05-08Post Ipo Debt· $1.5B
2021-05-05Acquired
2003-01-10IPO

Leadership Team

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William Lansing
CEO
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Amir Hermelin
Chief Technology Officer
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