Scrum Master/ Project Management/ Product Management

FICO (NYSE: FICO)is a leading global analytics software company, helping businesses in 90+ countries make better decisions. Join our world-class team today and fulfill your career potential!

Job Summary

Scrum Master
As a scrum master working with one or more scrum teams you will be responsible for ensuring the scrum teams follow scrum framework and SAFe practices, mentoring and motivating the teams to improve process and facilitate the scrum events, eliminating team impediments and identifying risk.

As a scrum master your responsibilities will include:
o Scheduling and facilitating scrum events such as:

• Sprint Planning
• Standups
• Sprint Review, Retrospective and Demos
• Backlog refinement.

o Ensure scrum team follows Agile process.
o Monitoring progress and team deliverables according to the Program Increment (PI) Plan.
o Manage inter team dependencies.
o Managing tasks, issues, risks, and action items.
o Ensure continuous improvement, quality, predictability, and velocity of the scrum team.
o Work with PM and development leads to ensure value is delivered.
o Providing weekly status reports communicating risk with transparency.
o Facilitate the team in the Program Increment (PI) Planning events.

Requirements:
o Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or IT or related field.
o Certified Scrum master.
o 3+ years of Scrum Master experience in a software development environment.
o Understanding of Agile and SAFe practices.
o Familiar with Software Development Lifecycle and Deliverables.
o Excellent communication, interpersonal and organizational skills.
o Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
o Experience with JIRA or similar Project Tracking Software.

Job Description

The Opportunity

“Come join our product development team in a hands-on technical role where you’ll be involved in the end-to-end lifecycle of software development and methodologies. This role provides the opportunity to develop a deep understanding of our business, and work closely with professional services and product management to develop a highly feature rich product.”– VP, Software Engineering.

What You’ll Contribute

• Design, develop, deploy and support modules of large world-class enterprise-level product.
• Participate in architectural design of product.
• Develop high level development timelines based on project scope and understanding of the existing application code.
• Evaluate new design specifications and raise quality standards, address architectural concerns.
• Evaluate stability, compatibility, scalability, interoperability, and performance of the software product.
• Maintain and upgrade product source codes.
• Demonstrate technical expertise through publication, presentations, white papers and event participation.
• Continually learn new technologies in related areas.
• Serve as a source of technical expertise and mentor junior team members.

What We’re Seeking

• Bachelor’s/Master’s in Computer Science or related disciplines, or relevant experience in software architecture, design, development and testing.
• Experience in software design with strong foundation of design models and database structures.
• Strong knowledge of database concepts and programming.
• Experience in writing product specifications and documenting product features to present them to a wider audience.
• Excellent communication and ability to articulate the design with architects and discuss strategy / requirements with teams.
• Business domain knowledge.
• Ability to provide product demonstrations is an advantage.

Our Offer to You

• A culture and work environment strongly reflecting our core values: Act Like an Owner, Delight Our Customers and Earn the Respect of Others.
• The opportunity to make a difference by leveraging your unique strengths.
• Highly competitive compensation and rewards.
• Flexible work options, opportunities to give back to your community, social events with colleagues and a comprehensive benefits program inclusive of progressive parental leave.

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, predictive and prescriptive modeling, and much more.

FICO makes a real difference in the way businesses operate worldwide:

• Credit Scoring — 150+ billion FICO Scores have been sold to date, making it the most used credit score in the world.
• Fraud Detection and Security — 2.6+ billion payment cards globally are protected by FICO fraud systems.
• Lending — 3/4 of US mortgages are approved using the FICO Score.
• Anti-Money Laundering — our solutions check more than half a billion transactions a day to prevent criminal schemes such as terrorist financing

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 support 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 fulfill your potential at www.fico.com/Careers

FICO values the benefit that diversity and a culture of inclusion bring to our workplace. We are an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer and we’re proud to offer employment and advancement opportunities to all applicants without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, pregnancy, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.