Job Title:  VP, Principal Software Engineer (Hong Kong)

JOB DESCRIPTION
Job title: Principal Software Engineer    
Corporate Title: VP
Department: Group Technology
Location: Hong Kong      

Company overview
Nomura is a global financial services group with an integrated network spanning over 30 countries and regions. By connecting markets East & West, Nomura services the needs of individuals, institutions, corporates and governments through its three business divisions: Retail, Wholesale (Global Markets and Investment Banking), and Investment Management. Founded in 1925, the firm is built on a tradition of disciplined entrepreneurship, serving clients with creative solutions and considered thought leadership. For further information about Nomura, visit www.nomura.com.

Department overview:
Nomura's IT department provides technology solutions to support the company's business activities. The team works closely with senior leadership, business units, and stakeholders to develop and implement effective IT strategies, providing guidance on technology selection and implementation while ensuring system reliability, security, and scalability. Nomura's IT team specializes in software development, infrastructure management, cybersecurity, and data analytics and is known for providing exceptional service to clients. With a strong track record and commitment to innovation and global reach, Nomura's IT department is well-positioned to continue driving growth and success in the financial industry.

The Equities businesses including derivatives, electronic, programs, and cash at Nomura globally use a single platform for intraday and end of day risk management known as Euclid. This platform manages the lifecycle and risk of OTC equity derivative transactions as well as risk for the firm’s positions. To further enhance our equity platform to cope with business development needs, we are looking for a technically sound mid to senior level developer to join our global equity derivatives development team.

Role description:
The candidate should have experiences developments, highly enthusiastic and self-motivated, can handle and solve complex problems independently, understand the concept of agile, scrum, TDD, SOA & various design patterns. This is an excellent opportunity for an ambitious experienced developer who is eager to work closely with FO business users, stakeholders, quants and other global project teams throughout the organisation. The candidate will be part of the global equity derivatives team, and reports to the regional development manager. 

Responsibilities：
•    Participates in regional/global development and project meetings 
•    Work with BA/PM or end users to gather and review user requirements, provide suggestions on design and enhancements
•    Follow global development/change management standards to deliver quality enhancements/solutions in timely maner 
•    Participate in development, code reviews, &  post mortem activities. 
•    Participate in Rota for release management & provide 2nd / 3rd level support 
•    Be a good team player to ensure a cohesive culture to effectively solve local/global business problem while building strategic platform for Global Equities.
•    Be a key partner of the Equities production services team to help ensure maximum up time of systems and minimize impact to businesses when issues occur.

Skills, experience, qualifications and knowledge required:

•    Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Computer Science or Engineering
•    10-15 years of hands on development experience. 
•    Strong experience in working on object oriented technology in C#, strong in C# but having familiarity on others eg, Java would be good
•    Understanding of relational database technologies, SQL / Stored Proc, with In memory caching technology like Redis
•    Understanding of infrastructure requirements for local/global delivery platforms and messaging infrastructures
•    Understanding of compute farms, distributed caching and computing would be plus.
•    Experience in Derivatives and Equities in Global Investment Bank a must
•    Ability to work with global teams in matrix reporting environment with strong interpersonal skills
•    Ability to cope with rapid front-office business needs and to deal with changing priorities
•    Ability to communicate and act professionally with IT staff and business clients while under strict deadlines.
•    Strong verbal and written communication skills at multiple levels with strong status reporting skills
•    Strong analytical skills 

Diversity Statement
Nomura is committed to an employment policy of equal opportunities, and is fundamentally opposed to any less favourable treatment accorded to existing or potential members of staff on the grounds of race, creed, colour, nationality, disability, marital status, pregnancy, gender or sexual orientation.

DISCLAIMER:  This Job Description is for reference only, and whilst this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, it is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, skills, efforts, requirements or working conditions associated with the job.  The management reserves the right to revise the job and may, at his or her discretion, assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time. 

Nomura is an Equal Opportunity Employer