Job Title:  Lead Software Engineer

Nomura 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.

Division Overview:

Global Markets Technology builds and maintains software solutions used by Global Markets Front and Middle office businesses. The business is spread across EMEA, US, Japan, AEJ, and emerging Markets like India, Brazil, and China. It deals in wide range of products including FX, Rates, Credit, Securitized Products, Equities, Futures & Options, FI/EQ Derivatives, and Prime Services including financing.

GMIT India team is an integral part of the global team, which is spread across US, UK, Tokyo, Singapore, HK, India and China. It works in partnership with the regions to deliver technology solutions to GM business across regions prioritized in Global Book of Work. This team serves key business functions such as Pricing, Sales & Research (Pre-Trade), Electronic Trading, Client & Exchange Connectivity (Trading related), Trade Capture & Workflow, Trade Life Cycle Management (Post-Trade), MIS (pre and post trade analysis), Position, Risk Management and P&L (real-time, intraday and EOD),  Interfaces to Corporate Settlement, Risk and Finance systems.

Position Specifications:

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design, development and support of various application stacks.
• Collaborate with business and other technology teams to translate the business requirements into innovative solutions implementing highly performant, scalable, resilient, low latency applications.
• Work closely with business and technology stakeholders to align the development priorities & planning with product and technology road-map
• Develop people through coaching, mentoring and management.
• Act as a thought leader in the technical space through research and knowing the industry trends as well as cutting edge tools & technologies.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience in the field of software design and development using at least one high level language.
• At least 2+ years of experience in Data Analytics on both static and realtime streaming data using timeseries database like KDB/q.
• Good understanding of PubSub architecture and Callback based design.
• Excellent exposure to at least 1 middleware technology (e.g. Kafka/Tibco/solace/TCP)
• Knowledge of Python and its integration with KDB/q will be a plus.
• Exposure to software development over cloud platform (preferably AWS) desired.
• Implement DevOps techniques and practices like CI, CD, Build Automation, test driven development across projects to enable rapid delivery of working code utilizing tools like Jenkins, ,GIT etc.
• Adhere to full software development lifecycle
• Excellent trouble shooting skills with the ability to quickly identify and document the root cause of the issues and effectively communicate possible resolutions.
• Experience leading high performant development teams and collaborate with technology partners like QA, BA, PS
• Strong problem solving skills, business acumen and demonstrated excellent oral and written communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience working on Containerization and Orchestration using Docker, Kubernetes etc. would be an advantage.