Job Title:  Lead Software Engineer

Business Unit Overview

Global Execution Services (GES) Technology builds and maintains software solutions used by agency-model execution business (Instinet) of the Nomura Group, This business provides brokerage services to clients in over 60 markets around the world. Through its advanced suite of electronic trading strategies, experienced high-touch trading group, top-ranked Commission Management services, award-winning desktop trading platform, and unparalleled access to insightful analytics, content and unique liquidity, execution services business helps institutions lower overall trading costs and ultimately improve investment performance. Nomura has introduced a range of now industry-standard trading technologies, and has been an innovator at the forefront of the market's evolution. For more information, please visit www.instinet.com.

GES Technology India team is an integral part of the global team, which is spread across US, UK, HK and India. It works in partnership with the regions to deliver technology solutions for global execution business.

TradeSpex is Nomura’s award-winning equity analytics suite of applications that empower users to make better investment and trading decisions. By leveraging these cutting-edge tools, our clients continually analze, evaluate/refine trading strategies and thus can gain a competitive edge in the market, making more strategic decisions on data-driven insights and analytics.

Position Specifications:

Role & Responsibilities:

This is a senior individual contributor position. The selected person would be part of GES Tech India – TradeSpex Dev team and would report to its India IT Head. It is very high ownership position as the entire product suite is delivered and managed completely out of Mumbai IT team. The role and responsibilities are as follows:

• Develop and maintain large, complex TradeSpex Product Suite. Contribute to development of features.

• Understand the existing business functions and participate in defining new UX solutions that meet business objectives.

• Work with the product team, stakeholders and end-users for contribution towards requirement discovery and project prioritization.

• Design and develop high-quality software deliveries within the committed deadlines.

• Agile –participate in weekly scrums

• Collaborate with various development and support teams across regions

• L3 support – quick support resolution of production and user issues, application testing and maintenance releases. Interface with other support teams, global internal and external clients related to support, use and output of the products. As part of global team, act as key contact point for queries of both technical and functional nature.

• Problem ownership – from Incident to resolution. Root cause analysis & fixes for maintaining and improving system stability.

• Provide regular updates regarding status or progress made to managers and stakeholders.

• Gain understanding of various applications and systems being developed by peer groups.

• Willing to own deliveries and work hands-on across all aspects of software delivery including development, testing, documentation and support.

• Willing to learn Java with multi-threading and other new technologies/ tools as required, in order to effectively deliver output.

Key Skills:

We are committed to providing equal opportunities throughout employment including in the recruitment, training and development of employees. We prohibit discrimination in the workplace whether on grounds of gender, marital or domestic partnership status, pregnancy, carer’s responsibilities, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, race, color, national or ethnic origins, religious belief, disability or age.

*Applying for this role does not amount to a job offer or create an obligation on Nomura to provide a job offer. The expression "Nomura" refers to Nomura Services India Private Limited together with its affiliates.