FICO Hiring for Analytic Consulting at Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Full Time

Job Description

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 Role The Analytics team at FICO’s Global Delivery Center in Bangalore provides consulting services to leading banks, financial institutions, telecom companies, and retailers across Asia-Pacific, EMEA, and Americas. The team works on a wide variety of projects across model and strategy development, optimization, and regulatory compliance using the latest tools & techniques. FICO is expanding its footprint for ML/AI solutions using alternate data and advanced algorithms built and deployed using a suite of FICO products/ solutions such as Analytics Work Bench (AWB); Xpress Insight; and Decision Management Platform (DMP). This role will play a key role in propelling our ML/AI strategy by demonstrating skills in data identification/ preparation; algorithm selection/ comparison; model development and deployment. Responsibilities

• Manage projects focused on ML/AI and provide consulting services to clients on a wide range of advanced analytics-based services.
• Understand client objectives and create a credible project plan based on types of data available, possible algorithm choices, and implementation options
• Work with data ingestion/transformation tools to prepare modeling data, including streaming components such as transaction/ website/ social data
• Build relevant suite of ML/AI models and test/ compare various algorithm choices and modeling/ convergence parameters
• Present results and help clients understand the models and their usage in operations
• Work with deployment teams to help implement the models on client/ cloud infrastructure
• Interact with global FICO experts to track the latest updates to tools/ methodologies and provide feedback on client adoption/ experience from completed projects

Desired Skills and Experience

• Advanced degree in applied mathematics, statistics, operations research, industrial engineering, computer science, or related technical discipline.
• 10+ years of experience in advanced analytics with client-facing project management and delivery experience including at least 3-5 years of building ML/AI models
• Deep statistical modeling and data mining competence, with exposure to applications in scoring, forecasting, recommendation systems, and digital/ social media analytics
• Expertise in supervised/ unsupervised learning including ensemble methods (random forest/ gradient boosting classifiers), neural networks, collaborative filtering, and network analysis. Exposure to NLP/ text mining will be an added advantage.
• Software skills should include operating Python, R, or other open-source languages within a production and/ or big data environment, with associated skills in SQL, Hadoop, or Informatica. Familiarity with Tableau, Qlikview, or other reporting/ visualization tools will also be helpful.
• Relevant experience in the financial services vertical with demonstrated business impact. will be an added plus.
• Strong command of English language with ability to communicate persuasively and effectively.
• Exhibit strong leadership skills, provide direction/ mentorship to more junior staff, and help build the right combination of talent/ skills, in order to deliver high-impact, global projects.

Personal Characteristics

• Highly-driven and results focused. Willing to stretch to meet tight timelines.
• Cares deeply about quality of output and invests time and energy to ensure deliverables meet/ exceed client expectations.
• Good team player with the ability to collaborate effectively across geographies/ time zones.
• Possess the ability to influence without authority in a matrixed management environment.
• Willing to travel (up to 25% of time).

About FICO

• Headquartered in Silicon Valley USA, FICO™ (NYSE:FICO) delivers superior predictive analytics that drive smarter decisions. Our groundbreaking use of mathematics to predict consumer behavior has transformed entire industries and revolutionized the way risk is managed and products are marketed.
• Our combination of experienced data scientists, industry-leading analytic technology stack, and innovative analytics help our customers realize the potential of their data to make better decisions and drive tangible benefits.
• FICO’s innovative solutions include the FICO(R) Score – the standard measure of consumer credit risk in the United States – along with industry-leading solutions for managing credit accounts, identifying and minimizing the impact of fraud, and customizing consumer offers with pinpoint accuracy.
• Most of the world’s top banks, as well as leading insurers, retailers, pharma businesses and government agencies rely on FICO solutions to accelerate growth, control risk, boost profits, and meet regulatory and competitive demands.
• FICO also helps millions of individuals manage their personal credit health through www.myFICO.com .
• Learn more about FICO at www.fico.com.

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.