Software Delivery Management – Senior Technical Software Delivery Manager

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

We are seeking a technically skilled and highly experienced Delivery Management leader to support the Delivery Management - Senior Director in driving strategic software delivery initiatives for the FICO Software Product Organization. You will be part of a highly energetic team that ensure successful end-to-end Platform as a Service (PaaS) delivery. This opportunity offers a unique leadership role to work with senior technology leaders, and agile release management teams building cutting edge technology applied to one-of-a-kind business problems.

What You’ll Contribute

• Oversee and drive end-to-end product delivery management lifecycle and release management operations for the Product organization. This role requires a strategic leader adept at managing complex products, coordinating across numerous technology teams, and implementing best practices to drive efficiency and excellence.

• Works in a senior leadership role to lead highly technical product delivery, aligning scope and release planning with strategic business objectives. 

• Takes ownership and drives teams to quality and on-time delivery using agile methodologies, company-defined delivery standards, and best practices. 

• Identifies potential risks and obstacles that could impact product roadmap and release timelines. Proactively identifies and develops dependency and risk mitigation strategies.

• Establish and monitor KPIs to measure product delivery effectiveness, quality, and overall success.

• Facilitate culture of continuous learning by regularly conducting product retrospectives and improving established product delivery standards.

What We’re Seeking

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in computer science or related discipline.

• Strong background in full lifecycle delivery for PaaS products and operations.

• Experience in planning and delivering commercial software utilizing agile processes for multiple public cloud technologies, e.g., AWS, Google, Azure.

• Practical understanding and application of technical product delivery management and agile development lifecycle in support of PaaS. 

• Experience managing complex dependencies between various teams that play different roles within software releases.

• Proficiency in identifying and responding effectively to technical risks and issues that may impact delivery.

• Collaborative style; partners well with cross-functional teams solve problems and to complete complex deliverables within tight time frames.

• Exceptional facilitation and time management skills with the ability to meet tight deadlines and juggle multiple tasks/projects simultaneously.

• Results oriented with strong attention to detail. 

• Skilled with Atlassian tools such as Aha! And Jira to track progress of software releases.

• Scaled Agile Certification is preferred. 

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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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/