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.

What We Offer:

• We support employee wellbeing by ensuring a sense of purpose and belonging.
• We offer a comprehensive range of wellbeing services which allows employees to get access to the assistance they need at any point in their wellbeing journey.
• Our bespoke benefits support employees and their family’s holistic wellbeing and are inclusive of diverse identities and family structures.

Role & Responsibilities:

Orchestrate is a critical component of the global equity execution workflow. It serves as a comprehensive control layer for managing client order routing & execution pathways, risk limits, trade restrictions, user access control & permissions, FIX configurations, various regulatory compliance data setup, and other business configuration management within the flagship order management system.

This is an individual contributor role. We are looking for an exceptional Java Technologist to join our Orchestrate development team in India. The selected individual will work with India Lead and global dev team.

The role and responsibilities are as follows:

• Design and develop high-quality software deliveries within the committed deadlines.
• Build and enhance business configuration management functionality
• Develop and maintain REST APIs for financial trading systems
• Work with relational databases for data persistence and retrieval
• Implement comprehensive unit testing strategies, write unit tests following established testing patterns and best practices
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams for contribution towards requirement discovery and project prioritization.
• Participate in code reviews and maintain high code quality standards
• Document code and technical processes
• Willing to work and contribute across entire SDLC – including dev, testing, documentation and support. Collaborate with various development, QA and support teams across different 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. 
• Contribute towards establishing software delivery best practices. Collaborate on architecture, design decisions, and code reviews.

What You'll Learn

• Production-level Java development in a financial services environment
• Building and maintaining enterprise-grade REST APIs
• Working with relational databases (SQL queries, schema design, performance optimization)
• Event-driven architecture and messaging patterns
• Workflow engine design and implementation
• Regulatory compliance requirements in trading systems
• Test-driven development and software quality practices
• Agile development methodologies

Mandatory Skill Set :

Excellent technical skills in 

• Strong Core Java
• SQL Server or similar DB, SQL
• DevOps – CI/CD, Gitlab, Gradl
• Strong expertise in designing & implementing RESTful APIs and event-driven architecture
• Good understanding of multithreading – concurrency, synchronization and memory management
• Very detail oriented with excellent analytical skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Highly proactive and takes initiative to identify problem areas and evolve solutions.

Desirable Skill Set :

• Excellent technical skills in
• Core Java
• SQL Server or similar DB, SQL
• DevOps – CI/CD, Gitlab, Gradle
• Strong expertise in designing & implementing RESTful APIs and event-driven architecture
• Good understanding of multithreading – concurrency, synchronization and memory management
• Very detail oriented with excellent analytical skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Highly proactive and takes initiative to identify problem areas and evolve solutions.
• Security Concepts: Basic understanding of authentication and authorization

Position Specifications: