VP/D Enterprise Decision Engineering
Core
Lead the transformation of credit & pricing decisioning from mainframe to a cloud-native Decision Platform, building a Center of Excellence to deliver Decisioning-as-a-Service for product teams.
Role type
VP/D Enterprise Decision Engineering (Senior, hands-on engineering leader)
Builds
Cloud-native Decision Platform (Drools/Kogito), Next-Gen Offer service platform, Decision Solutions CoE
Domain
Consumer lending, credit & pricing, financial services
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Business rules engines (ODM, FICO Blaze, Drools/Kogito), Java/cloud engineering, credit/lending domain expertise, team leadership (20+ engineers), cloud deployment (AWS/Azure), Kubernetes/OpenShift, CI/CD, observability (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana), regulatory compliance
Preferred skills
MS degree, DBA certifications, AWS/Azure Cloud Certifications
Technologies
Drools, Kogito, Decision Intelligence, Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, Maven, AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Jira, Confluence, Miro
Responsibilities
Lead migration from iSeries/zSeries mainframes to modern Decision Platform; define roadmap and risk mitigation; own end-to-end delivery and quality of decisioning services; approve production rule releases and pricing changes; drive architectural standardization for APIs and cloud patterns; sponsor automation and Gen AI initiatives; ensure observability and SRE practices; partner with Product, Credit, Pricing, Fraud, Compliance, and Legal; recruit and upskill engineering teams
Seniority
VP/D, strategic leadership with tactical execution