Job Title:  Principal Infrastructure and Platform Engineer

Overview:
 
Nomura is a global financial services group with an integrated network spanning approximately 30 countries and regions. By connecting markets East & West, Nomura services the needs of individuals, institutions, corporates and governments through its three business divisions: Wealth Management, Investment 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.

As part of the CBO, you will have the following key responsibilities in order to fulfil the role purpose above:

• Strategic Oversight: Contribute to the organization's overarching multi-cloud strategy while managing interdependencies across the business.
• Budget & Forecasting: Work with Finance to establish cost-awareness regimes and build executive dashboards for cloud spend and ROI.
• Stakeholder Management: Work with cross-function and global teams, security/risk teams, and technical delivery teams to resolve blockers.
• Change Management: Contribute to the cultural transition to cloud, ensuring staff are reskilled and organizational KPIs are tracked
• Manage Risks: Maintain awareness of architecture risks and operational risks.  Minimize the likelihood of these occurring through identification, assessment, mitigation and controls, loss identification and reporting in accordance with Nomura’s risk management policy.

· Contribute to an agile technology architecture vision and strategy to enable CTO governance for new Cloud technologies.  Share best practice within the Group Chief Architect community.

· Support a CTO Design Authority that brings together senior leaders to make strategic decision, taking care to socialise non-functional designs and choices to the relevant Group governance group.

· Align CTO with the Group Architecture principles and standards.  Be an active member of the Architect community to help evolve Architecture best practice and embed these across the Technology landscape.

· Contribute to the development and implementation of CTO architecture strategy and standards, within the construct of the Group Architecture framework.

· Contribute to the development of platform and solution architectures and designs through governance ensuring that the target for architecture is implemented consistently across the CTO function and drive the realisation of strategy. Manage trade-offs and balances functional, service quality and cost efficiency requirements as well as adherence to appropriate standards.

· Consult on new best practices, processes, operating model, techniques, products, services, technologies and standards where needed against identified use cases, via the appropriate governance bodies.

· Stay abreast of technology trends and advise CTO business/CIO/Chief Architects and the Business about potential benefits/impacts.


Our ideal candidate will be a proficient cloud architecture leade

Nomura Leadership Behaviours

• Explore Insights & Vision: Identify the underlying causes of problems faced by you or your team and define a clear vision and direction for the future.
• Making Strategic Decisions: Evaluate all the options for resolving the problems and effectively prioritize actions or recommendations.
• Inspire Entrepreneurship in People: Inspire team members through effective communication of ideas and motivate them to actively enhance productivity.
• Elevate Organizational Capability: Engage proactively in professional development and enhance team productivity through the promotion of knowledge sharing.
• Inclusion: Respect DEI, foster a culture of inclusion and psychological safety in the workplace and cultivate a "Risk Culture" (Challenge, Escalate and Respect).

Equal Opportunity Employer:
 
Nomura is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to providing equal opportunities throughout employment including in the recruitment, training and development of employees (including promotion, transfers, assignments and beliefs). We prohibit discrimination in the workplace whether on grounds of gender, marital or domestic partnership status, pregnancy, career’s responsibilities, sexual orientation, gender identity, race, color, national or ethnic origins, religious belief, disability or age. Our objective is to attract job applications and applications for development from the best possible candidates and to retain the best people.