Database Engineering - Lead Engineer

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!

The Opportunity

"Come join our global technology services team if you are an enthusiastic professional; someone who is intrigued by the opportunity to work in a dynamic and talented team in our growing Information technology organization, leveraging both public and private Cloud platforms. FICO is expanding into new core offerings. We are building a team with strong MS SQL Server Database and NoSQL skills who will partner with the development teams to architect, design, automate database systems and deployments and embrace new technologies. This database role entails a blend of both architecture and administration. " – Database Engineering - Director.

What You’ll Contribute

• Supporting Cloud database systems in a 24x7 environment.
• Fine-tune configurations for performance improvement.
• Implement optimal backup and recovery.
• Understand and optimize query performance.
• Do database health checks for identifying slow queries, replication lags, instance failures, etc.
• Evaluate, plan and perform the DB upgrades.
• Implement appropriate indexes for performance improvement.
• Provide support – during release/outage.
• Implementing best practices for backups, replication, and health checks.
• Database hardening – implement best practices.
• Design and implement DR & HA solutions and recommendations.
• Automate the process of deploying DB changes so that it can support new build/patch/hotfix.
• Act as an application DBA while working with DevOps and application team.
• Will be required to work with internal and external clients to resolve issues.
• Will be required to be part of on-call rotation and work during outside normal business hours.

What We’re Seeking

• Bachelor’s/Master’s in Computer Science or related disciplines, or relevant experience in software architecture, design, development, and testing. 
• Extensive knowledge and hands-on in MySQL, PostgreSQL, DocumentDB, Oracle.
• Very good knowledge and hands-on in AWS Cloud, Security groups, IAM roles, VPC peering, etc.
• Good knowledge of DevOps tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, CloudFormation, Terraform, GIT.
• Good knowledge of developer skillset such as Java/J2EE, Spring boot, Jenkins/CICD, Groovy.
• Familiarity with PCI compliance, TDE knowledge and security best practices is beneficial.

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.

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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, 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 promotes a culture of inclusion and seeks to attract a diverse set of candidates for each job opportunity. We are an equal employment opportunity employer and we’re proud to offer employment and advancement opportunities to all candidates without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, pregnancy, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. Research has shown that women and candidates from underrepresented communities may not apply for an opportunity if they don’t meet all stated qualifications. While our qualifications are clearly related to role success, each candidate’s profile is unique and strengths in certain skill and/or experience areas can be equally effective. If you believe you have many, but not necessarily all, of the stated qualifications we encourage you to apply.

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