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.

Department 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.

The Unity Data Warehouse (UDW) platform is a business-critical system and has been adopted by a number of Global Markets and Corporate functions including FO Risk, Credit & Market Risk and Finance as part of the GM Data Strategy of rationalising Trade, Risk and Valuation data feeding from GM systems into Corporate Functions. This is a big data platform, processing more than billion rows daily.

Role & Responsibilities

• Development and Maintenance of UDW platform.
• Understand business requirements and responsible for designing solution, implementation, testing and L3 support.
• Regular interaction with business and technical stakeholders globally for requirement analysis, solution/approach, testing, status updates etc.
• Deliver high quality change within timelines. Perform unit testing. Support SIT, UAT and Regression testing.
• Propose and implement strategic/tactical solutions for business and technical problems.
• Understand and follow organizational, team level processes and best practices.

Skill Set

• 5+ years’ experience in Core Java (8 and above) and Spring.
• Proficiency with SQL
• Automated unit testing using Junit.
• Spark and Scala are desirable.
• Exposure to Big Data technologies (e.g. Parquet, Dremio etc.) is desirable.
• Good knowledge of Investment Banking and Capital Markets domain is desirable.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Good analytical skills.