FICO Blaze Analyst/Developer

138471 - FICO Blaze Analyst/Developer

Closing date - 26 April 2025

Job Family: Information Technology

Career Stream: Application Development

Leadership Pipeline: Manage Self: Professional

The Technical SME (Domain Expert) will be responsible for the implementation of decision solutions, primarily using Blaze Advisor/Decision Modeler. The domain expert forms part of a team that will manage multiple implementations from project inception to the point of going live. Close interaction and collaboration with our dependency partners are key to ensuring success for both our clients and BRM.

• Create and maintain documentation of work delivered and knowledge artefacts which will be handy for BAU support of the projects implemented.
• Facilitating discussions to obtain approval on designs based on documented requirements from all stakeholders.
• Design and implementation of Blaze Advisor rule repositories, including Blaze Advisor rule writing and testing.
• Understanding and communicating both business and technical objectives/requirements from multiple perspectives including business view and internal development view.
• Coordinating effort with offshore development team.
• Building relationships with a broad spectrum of stakeholders from senior executives to support desk, leveraging these relationships effectively to validate assumptions, acquire useful information, negotiate among competing objectives, resolve issues, manage change, agree to direction, and achieve consensus.
• Delivering sanity-checks on existing Blaze Advisor rule repository implementations.
• Configuring and implementing rule repository testing frameworks.
• Constantly seeking out and improving product and technical knowledge.
• Installation and configuration of Blaze Advisor.

• Proficient in FICO Blaze Advisor version 7.x.
• Java, bonus but not a requirement.
• Has Blaze Development experience, bonus but not a requirement.

• Matric / Grade 12 / National Senior Certificate.

• Technically related degree, BSC Hons or above or equivalent work experience.

• 6+ years Blaze Experience.

• Asset management.
• IT Assets management processes.
• Data Warehousing.
• Information Technology (IT) Architecture.

• Decision Making.
• Courage.
• Stress Tolerance.
• Quality Orientation.
• Technical/Professional Knowledge and Skills.
• Emotional Intelligence Essentials.
• Resolving Conflict.