Job Title:  Senior Java Developer - Associate

Job title:                     Senior Java Developer

Corporate Title:          Associate

Department:               Group Platform Services and Engineering

Location:                    London

Company overview

Nomura is a global financial services group with an integrated network spanning approximately 30 countries and regions. By connecting markets East & West, Nomura services the needs of individuals, institutions, corporates and governments through its three business divisions: Wealth Management, Investment Management, and Wholesale (Global Markets and Investment Banking). 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
Group Software Engineering, part of Group Platform Services and Engineering, is responsible for Nomura Holdings wide implementation across several domains, including the SDLC Toolchain, Curated Enterprise Pipelines, and Core Application tools. These domains are further broken down into CI/CD, Containerization, Static Security Scanning, Code Review, Code Repository, and Application Deployment. The team spans across the globe and works with various other Wholesale, Retail and affiliate Engineering and Platform teams.

The 6 pillars across our Software Engineering Strategy are as follows:

• Developer focused Software Engineering Practices
• Alignment of Toolchain Capabilities and Products
• Curated Build and Deploy Pipelines
• Modernize Application Runtime Environments
• Metrics Driven Continuous Improvement 
• Training and Engagement Programs

Role description:
Based in London, this position will be part of the Group Platform Service and Engineering - Software Engineering team and will fit within the existing Engineering and Site Reliability Engineers. Within the team we will have Software Engineers Developers, Site Reliability Engineers, and a thin layer of Operations, forming a true DevOps team. 
We have several roles as SRE/Support Engineers as well as Platform Engineers at Senior and Lead levels.
The overall strategy is critical to group wide capability enhancements and is an opportunity to apply and learn industry leading technologies, practices in a diverse environment. 
Nomura is committed to providing applicable training and skill development opportunities.

Responsibilities:

• Analysing user requirements and creating/adapting software solutions that meet those requirements.
• Maintain and enhance software systems using programming languages such as Java, Python, JavaScript, and others.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure that software systems are delivered effectively and meet quality standards.
• Documenting software design, development, and maintenance processes to facilitate knowledge transfer and maintenance, with a focus on reliability leveraging DevOps principles.
• Keeping up to date with new technologies and industry trends to ensure that software systems remain competitive.
• Troubleshooting issues that arise with software systems and working to resolve them as quickly as possible.
• Developing and maintaining technical documentation, including user manuals and technical specifications.
• In addition to these technical responsibilities, possess strong communication skills and be able to work collaboratively with others. Support members are engineers who specialize in support and can provide guidance to project managers and other stakeholders.

Skills, experience, qualifications and knowledge required:
Mandatory:

• Experience with Linux/Unix Shell Scripting.
• Several years of Core Java development experience.
• Ability to do technical presentation to within the team.
• Capable in various programming languages and tools, such as Python, JavaScript
• Able to learn new monitoring frameworks, enhance Knowledge base, and contribute to the maintenance and enhancement various systems. 
• Experience in automation, continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD), and infrastructure as code (IaC) tools, such as Jenkins, Ansible, and Terraform.
• Track record of cross regional and cross team collaboration.
• Basic level English and above.

Preferred：

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field or proven equivalent experience. 
• Previous development experience with Python.
• Experience integrating RESTful APIs.
• Experience developing applications for public/private/hybrid clouds.
• Development experience of any of these technologies:
• o    AWS Cloud
• o    Kubernetes
• o    Docker
• Practical experience of enterprise Change and Incident Management (ITIL or similar).

Nomura competencies
Trusted Partner

• Understand clients’ needs and issues and respond with high-quality proposals. 
• Acquire capabilities to perform one’s responsibilities and contribute to being a Trusted Partner 

Entrepreneurial leadership 

• Produce new ideas that might challenge the status-quo or oneself.

Teamwork Collaboration

• Seek advice from senior colleagues and utilize it for improved results. 
• Collaborate with members from relevant departments. 

Influence

• Contribute to the success of the organization both quantitatively and qualitatively, and act with awareness of the impact on others.
• Serve as role model and provide guidance to junior employees.

Integrity 

• Have a good understanding of corporate philosophy, professional ethics, compliance, risk management, and code of conduct, and make decisions and take actions accordingly.

Right to Work

The UK Government have taken steps to reduce net migration to the UK by limiting the number of overseas workers from outside the EEA coming to the UK for employment. Please note that whilst we are able to consider applications from overseas workers from outside the EEA (who require a Tier 2 (General) visa) we can only employ them if we can provide evidence that there are no other suitable candidates for this vacancy from inside the EEA.

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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. If you require any assistance or reasonable adjustments due to a disability or long-term health condition, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Nomura is an Equal Opportunity Employer