Job Title:  Lead Software Engineer

Nomura Overview:

Nomura is an Asia-based 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 three business divisions: Retail, Asset 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. 

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.

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.

Position Specifications:

Role & Responsibilities:

Instinet Central Data Warehouse team works to design and build in-house data-lake solution for storing firm’s trading activity for Cash equities flows. The team also works on building Instinet CAT trade reporting (ICAT) solution. This data-lake also servers Instinet business users beyond CAT reporting.

This is an individual contributor position within Mumbai IT team and is a critical part of our Engineering organization. The selected person would be part of Nomura’s Global  Execution Services – CAT IT team. The selected person would report to IT Lead in Mumbai and would work closely with global CAT IT team.

• We are looking for an exceptional Java Technologist to join our CAT development team for building a high-performance, low-latency platform. You will be responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing systems that handle real-time market data, order routing, and execution at microsecond latencies.
  You should be passionate about writing highly efficient, concurrent, and performance-critical code and have strong knowledge of Java internals  and low-latency system design.
• You would be part of team working at the forefront of trading applications technology, which includes on-premise deployments as well migration to AWS, big-data ingestion and analytics, distributed systems and algorithmic complexity.
• You would work towards a service-oriented architecture and launching data-services/micro-services from the ground-up as well as building systems interacting with our trading ones.

The role and responsibilities are as follows:

• Responsible for developing highly performant and scalable components that are able to handle large amounts of financial data.

• Help develop distributed systems with concurrent access and usage patterns. Design and develop high-quality software deliveries within the committed deadlines.

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

• Willing to work in UK and US shift hours from 12 to 9 PM IST.

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

• Collaborate with various development, QA and support teams across different regions

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

• Contribute towards establishing software delivery best practices. Collaborate on architecture, design decisions, and code reviews

• L3 support – quick support resolution of production and user issues, application testing and maintenance releases.

• Willing to learn new technologies/ tools as required, in order to effectively deliver output.

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