Job Title:  Lead Principal PS

Overview:
 
Nomura is an Asia-headquartered financial services group with an integrated global network spanning over 30 countries. By connecting markets East & West, Nomura services the needs of individuals, institutions, corporates and governments through its four business divisions: Retail, Asset Management, Wholesale (Global Markets and Investment Banking), and Merchant 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
 
Nomura Services India, (Powai) supports Nomura’s businesses around the world. Powai’ s world class capabilities in trading support, research, information technology, financial control, operations, risk management and legal support have played a key role in facilitating Nomura’s global operations and are an integral part of Nomura’s global expansion plans. The Powai operation is a critical part of the platform to support the growth of Nomura’s global business.

1) Job/Group Overview:

Group IT Strategy is responsible for Nomura Holdings wide strategy across a number of domains. Group IT Strategy – Software Engineering team is responsible for driving group wide synergies across the software engineering domain, including the SDLC Toolchain, Curated Enterprise Pipelines, Software Engineering Practices, Cloud Runtime Environments, and Metrics Driven Continuous Improvement. The group is centred in Tokyo and engages with various wholesale, and Retail and affiliate Software Engineering and Platform teams. 

Based in Tokyo, this position will be part of the Group IT Strategy - Software Engineering team, and will focus on several areas in the Software Engineering domain to drive forward our capabilities, and cascade that across the group. Within the team we will have Technical Project Managers, as well as Software Engineers and Developers. 

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. Each person on the team becomes the key hub across group in their respective area. 

Nomura is committed to providing applicable training and skill development opportunities.

2) Responsibilities:

• Be the bridge across Nomura Group for the respective Software Engineering sub-domain speciality
• Analysing user requirements and creating/adapting software solutions that meet those requirements.
• Managing project leveraging technical capabilities and experiences, and project management experiences.
• 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.
• 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. Senior software engineers are also meant to mentor or training junior engineers, and for providing guidance to project managers and other stakeholders.

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Mandatory：

• Experience with Linux/Unix Shell Scripting
• Ability to do technical presentation to within the team
• Basic Level English 
• Capable in various programming languages and tools, such as Python, JavaScript. 
• 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

Preferred：

• Bachelor’s degree in Computing, Math or Engineering discipline
• PMI PMP / PMI ACP
• 8+ years of development experience with Python OR 8+ years of Core Java development experience             Intermediate Level Japanese
• 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)

4) Any other special comments if any:

The 6 pillars across our Software Engineering Strategy are as follows, and each member of the team would specialize in one or two areas across Nomura Group:     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

Equal Opportunity Employer:
 
Nomura is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to providing equal opportunities throughout employment including in the recruitment, training and development of employees (including promotion, transfers, assignments and beliefs). We prohibit discrimination in the workplace whether on grounds of gender, marital or domestic partnership status, pregnancy, career’s responsibilities, sexual orientation, gender identity, race, color, national or ethnic origins, religious belief, disability or age. Our objective is to attract job applications and applications for development from the best possible candidates and to retain the best people.