Mexico onlyFICO (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 Privacy by Design Lead to drive the integration of privacy principles into the architecture, engineering, and deployment of FICO’s digital products and platforms. This role is ideal for a technically fluent professional—such as a software architect, systems engineer, or security technologist—who is passionate about building privacy into the foundation of modern systems. You will serve as a strategic enabler of FICO’s global privacy program, translating legal and ethical obligations into scalable, privacy-preserving design patterns. You’ll work cross-functionally with product, engineering, legal, and compliance teams to ensure that privacy is not just a policy—but a design imperative." -Data Privacy-Manager
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What You’ll Contribute
- Architect Privacy by Design: Lead the implementation of privacy by design and by default across FICO’s technology stack. Embed privacy controls into system architecture, APIs, data flows, and cloud environments.
- Translate Law into Code: Operationalize global privacy regulations (e.g., GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA) into technical requirements and reusable design patterns.
- Conduct Technical Privacy Reviews: Lead or support Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs) and Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs) for new technologies, features, and third-party integrations.
- Enable Engineering Teams: Provide hands-on guidance to developers and architects on privacy-preserving technologies such as pseudonymization, encryption, access control, and data minimization.
- Build Privacy Infrastructure: Contribute to the development of privacy tooling, automation, and governance frameworks that scale across the enterprise.
- Foster a Privacy-First Culture: Mentor technical teams, contribute to internal training, and advocate for ethical data stewardship throughout the product lifecycle.
- Stay Ahead of the Curve: Monitor emerging privacy technologies (e.g., federated learning, differential privacy, PETs) and evolving standards (e.g., NIST Privacy Framework).
What We’re Seeking
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Security, or a related technical field.
5+ years of experience in software architecture, engineering, or technical program management.
Demonstrated experience designing or implementing privacy-preserving systems or features.
Strong understanding of global privacy laws and their technical implications.
Experience conducting PIAs/DPIAs and working with cross-functional teams to mitigate privacy risks.
Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to legal, compliance, and business stakeholders.
Certifications such as CIPT, CIPP/US, CIPP/E, or Lead Implementer are a plus. If you do not currently hold one of these certifications, it is expected that you will obtain certification within the short term (3-6 months).
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.
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 — 3/4 of US mortgages are approved using the FICO Score.
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 help 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 fulfil 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.
Information submitted with your application is subject to the FICO Privacy policy athttps://www.fico.com/en/privacy-policy
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