Job Title: Principal Software Engineer

Job Code: 9265

Country: IN

City: Mumbai

Skill Category: IT\Technology

Description:

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.

Division 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.

GMIT India team is an integral part of the global team, which is spread across US, UK, Tokyo, Singapore, HK, India and China. It works in partnership with the regions to deliver technology solutions to GM business across regions prioritized in Global Book of Work. This team serves key business functions such as Pricing, Sales & Research (Pre-Trade), Electronic Trading, Client & Exchange Connectivity (Trading related), Trade Capture & Workflow, Trade Life Cycle Management (Post-Trade), MIS (pre and post trade analysis), Position, Risk Management and P&L (real-time, intraday and EOD), Interfaces to Corporate Settlement, Risk and Finance systems.

Position Specifications:

Corporate Title	Associate / VP
Functional Title	Principal Software Engineer
Experience	7 – 15 years
Qualification	B.E. / B.Tech / M.E. / M.Tech
Requisition No.

Participates in regional/global development and project meetings
Work with BA/PM or end users to gather and review user requirements, provide suggestions on design and enhancements
Follow global development/change management standards to deliver quality enhancements/solutions in timely manner
Participate in development, code reviews, & postmortem activities.
Participate in Rota for release management & provide 2nd / 3rd level support
Be a good team player to ensure a cohesive culture to effectively solve local/global business problem while building strategic platform for Global Equities.
Be a key partner of the Equities production services team to help ensure maximum up time of systems and minimize impact to businesses when issues occur.

Role & Responsibilities:

Skill set:

Mandatory

Desired

Domain

Investment Banking Domain

Education, Knowledge, Skills and Experience

Core

Bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science or engineering
5-15 years of hands-on development experience.
Strong experience on working on object-oriented technology in C# or Java, Strong in C# / Java but having familiarity on other in C# / Java would be good.
Ability to work with global teams in matrix reporting environment with strong interpersonal skills
Ability to cope with rapid front-office business needs and to deal with changing priorities
Ability to communicate and act professionally with IT staff and business clients while under strict deadlines.
Strong verbal and written communication skills at multiple levels with strong status reporting skills
Strong analytical skills
Fluent written and spoken English

Business

Global investment banks experience would be plus.

Technical

Excellect programming skills in C# or JAVA, experience with C#, Java and Python would be a plus.
Understanding of relational database technologies, SQL / Stored Proc, with In memory caching technology like Redis
Understanding of infrastructure requirements for local/global delivery platforms.
Understanding of messaging infrastructures.
Understanding of compute farms, distributed caching and computing would be plus.

Good understanding of software design principles and patterns, including user interface design
Skillful in Python, T-SQL and NoSQL Database.
Experience in trade regulatory reporting space – with understanding of Equity and/or derivatives products
Knowledge of cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)
Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git)
Ability to independently work across the technology