Software Engineering - Vice President

Position: Vice President, Software Engineering

The Opportunity

Join FICO's Software Engineering organization as Vice President of Software Engineering, based in our Bangalore office, where you'll lead a critical segment of our platform engineering initiatives. This is a unique opportunity to shape the technical direction of our platform while building and mentoring world-class engineering teams in one of our largest engineering centre.

Beyond your direct responsibilities, you'll serve as a technical beacon for our Bangalore engineering community, elevating engineering excellence across multiple teams through coaching, mentorship, and technical leadership. This role is perfect for a seasoned platform engineering leader who combines deep technical expertise with exceptional leadership skills and a passion for developing engineering talent.

What Youll Contribute

Platform Engineering Leadership

• Define and execute the technical strategy for your platform domain, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance meet enterprise requirements
• Lead the design, and implementation of critical platform components that serve as the foundation for FICO's products
• Drive platform modernization initiatives including cloud-native transformation, microservices adoption, and infrastructure automation

Technical Excellence & Innovation

• Establish technical standards and best practices for platform development, ensuring consistency and quality across all engineering teams
• Champion innovative approaches to platform challenges, leveraging emerging technologies to maintain competitive advantage
• Lead technical decision-making for complex platform initiatives, balancing innovation with stability and maintainability

Team Building & Leadership

• Build and lead a high-performing platform engineering team, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning
• Recruit, develop, and retain top engineering talent in the competitive Bangalore market
• Create career development frameworks that enable engineers to grow both technically and as leaders

Cross-Team Mentorship & Coaching

• Serve as a senior technical mentor across the Bangalore engineering organization, elevating capabilities beyond your direct team
• Conduct technical reviews and architecture discussions with other engineering teams to ensure platform best practices
• Lead engineering excellence initiatives including tech talks, architecture forums, and knowledge sharing sessions

Strategic Partnership

• Collaborate with product management and technical architecture teams to ensure platform capabilities align with product roadmaps and customer needs
• Partner with global engineering leaders to ensure consistency in platform strategy and implementation across locations
• Work closely with other Bangalore engineering leaders to build a cohesive and collaborative engineering culture

Operational Excellence

• Establish metrics and monitoring systems to ensure platform health, performance, and reliability
• Drive continuous improvement in engineering productivity through tooling, automation, and process optimization
• Ensure platform security, compliance, and governance meet enterprise and regulatory requirements

What We're Seeking

Technical Leadership Excellence

• Extensive experience leading platform engineering teams with deep expertise in building and scaling enterprise-grade platforms
• Proven track record of architecting and delivering complex platform solutions that serve as foundations for multiple products

Platform Engineering Expertise

• Deep technical expertise in modern platform technologies including cloud infrastructure, containerization, and orchestration
• Strong background in distributed systems, microservices architectures, and API design with hands-on experience in platform development

Architecture & Design

• Exceptional ability to design scalable, reliable, and secure platform architectures that meet enterprise requirements
• Experience with platform modernization including migration from monolithic to microservices architectures

Engineering Leadership

• Demonstrated success building and leading large engineering teams in competitive technology markets
• Proven ability to attract, develop, and retain top engineering talent while fostering inclusive and high-performing cultures

Mentorship & Coaching

• Passion for developing engineering talent with proven track record of mentoring engineers and engineering leaders
• Experience building engineering communities and driving technical excellence across multiple teams

Strategic Thinking

• Ability to balance long-term platform vision with short-term delivery needs and business objectives
• Experience making strategic technical decisions that impact entire engineering organizations

Collaborative Leadership

• Strong ability to work across geographic and functional boundaries to drive platform initiatives
• Proven success partnering with product, architecture, and other engineering teams to deliver integrated solutions

Technical Communication

• Excellent ability to communicate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences from engineers to executives
• Experience presenting platform strategies and technical decisions to senior leadership and stakeholders

Educational Background

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field required
• Advanced degree (MS, MTech) preferred; additional certifications in cloud platforms or architecture are a plus