The Opportunity
"As a part of FICO’s highly modern and innovative analytics and decision platform, the Lead Software Security Engineer will help shape the next generation security for FICO’s Platform. You will address cutting edge security challenges in a highly automated, complex, cloud & microservices driven environments inclusive of design challenges and continuous delivery of security functionality and features to the FICO platform as well as the AI/ML capabilities used on top of the FICO platform". - Director, Cyber Security
What You’ll Contribute
Secure the design of next generation FICO Platform, its capabilities and services.
Provide full-stack security architecture design from cloud infrastructure to application features for FICO customers.
Work closely with product managers, architects and developers on the implementation of the security controls within products.
Oversee security aspects of Analytical Model Life Cycle, and influence stakeholders for adopting best security standards and implementations.
Proof the security implementations within infrastructure & application deployment manifests and the CI/CD pipelines.
Define required controls and capabilities for the protection of FICO products and environments.
Build & validate declarative threat models in continuous and automated manner.
Prepare the product for compliance attestations and ensure adherence to best security practices.
What We’re Seeking
Experience in architecture, security reviews and requirement definition for complex product environments.
Familiarity with industry regulations, frameworks, and practices. For example, PCI, ISO 27001, NIST, etc.
Experience in threat modeling, code reviews, security testing, vulnerability detection, attacker exploit techniques, and methods for their remediation.
Hands-on experience with programming languages, such as: Java, Python, etc.
Experience with on premise to cloud-based infrastructure migrations.
Experience of deploying services and securing cloud environments, preferably AWS.
Experience of deploying and securing containers, container orchestration and mesh technologies (such as EKS, K8S, ISTIO).
Ability to articulate complex architectural challenges with the business leadership and product management teams.
Independently drive transformational security projects across teams and organizations.
Experience with securing event streaming platforms like Kafka or Pulsar.
Experience with ML/AI model security and adversarial techniques within the analytics domains.
Hands-on experience with IaC (Such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Helm) and with CI/CD pipelines (such as Github, Jenkins, JFrog).
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: $105,000 to $165,000 with this range reflecting differences in candidate knowledge, skills and experience.
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FICO at a Glance
FICO’s groundbreaking use of Big Data and mathematical algorithms to predict consumer behavior has transformed entire industries. The company provides analytics software and tools used across multiple industries to manage risk, fight fraud, build more profitable customer relationships, optimize operations and meet strict government regulations. Many of our products reach industry-wide adoption — such as the FICO® Score, the standard measure of consumer credit risk in the United States. FICO solutions leverage open-source standards and cloud computing to maximize flexibility, speed deployment and reduce costs. The company also helps millions of people manage their personal credit health.
Founded in 1956, FICO introduced analytic solutions such as credit scoring that have made credit more widely available, not just in the United States but around the world. We have pioneered the development and application of critical technologies behind decision management. These include predictive analytics, business rules management and optimization. We use these technologies to help businesses improve the precision, consistency and agility of their complex, high–volume decisions.
A Global Presence
FICO has offices throughout the world serving industries including financial services, health care, insurance, automotive, public sector, retail, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, travel and hospitality, media and entertainment, high tech and utilities.
Fortune 500 Clients
FICO clients include more than half of the top 100 banks in the world, more than 600 personal and commercial line insurers in North America and Europe including the top 10 US personal lines insurers, 400+ retailers and general merchandisers, including one-third of the top 100 U.S. retailers, 95 of the 100 largest financial institutions in the U.S., and all the 100 largest U.S. credit card issuers and more.