Job Title:  Principal Software Engineer

Nomura Overview:

Nomura is a financial services group with an integrated global network. By connecting markets East & West, Nomura services the needs of individuals, institutions, corporates and governments through its four business divisions: Wealth Management, Investment Management, Wholesale (Global Markets and Investment Banking), and 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 supports the group’s global businesses. With world-class capabilities in trading support, research, information technology, financial control, operations, risk management and legal support, the firm plays a key role in facilitating the group’s global operations across four international regions.

At Nomura, creating an inclusive workplace is a priority. Our approach to inclusion encompasses a variety of initiatives, including sensitization campaigns, implementing conducive policies & programs, providing infrastructure support and engaging in community events. Over time, we have made meaningful progress in these areas, and this commitment has been well-recognized across the industry. We are proud recipients of the prestigious Top 10 Employers award by the India Workplace Equality Index (IWEI), IWEI Gold Employer of Choice awards, India CSR Leadership Award 2024 for Holistic Village Development Program and the YUVA Unstoppable Changemaker Awards.

Divisional Overview:

Wholesale Data Services and Operations Technology support two major functions within Nomura –

• It provides foundational architectural solutions for market and reference data that powers Nomura’s business. This team is an integral part of Nomura that is responsible for developing and maintaining systems that manage acquisition and distribution of data for the entire organization including front office, middle office, back office, risk, finance and various AI based analytics systems.
• It is responsible for supporting trade settlement and transaction processing technology platform. This team provides day-to-day support for the middle office, operations and regulatory users, and manages vendor and in-house applications. WO IT also owns the applications that provide trade settlement data services to other technology teams from Operations, Finance, Risk, Regulatory and Compliance.

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 Overview: 

As a Lead / Principal Software Engineer, you’ll be working on various business and IT initiatives for a complex system processing huge amount of data.

You’ll be responsible for handling BAU tasks, contribute towards our modernization initiatives and be proactive in identifying inefficiencies in the system and suggest and work on improvement areas.

If you are dedicated towards your work, have strong work ethics, good understanding of software development and clean code principles, this opportunity is for you.

Key responsibilities: 

• Will be involved in the entire lifecycle of a project that involves analysis, coding, testing, User acceptance, deployment and support.
• Design, develop and maintain high quality, backend services and APIs in a fast-paced environment
• Involve in refactoring and re-engineering existing platforms with advancement in technologies.
• Proactive in identifying areas for improvements and innovation and providing efficient solutions.
• Partner with fellow developers, quality engineers & product owners constituting the distributed team, with strong focus on delivering value to business
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve production issues to ensure uninterrupted services for users.
• Willing to learn new technologies/tools as required, to effectively deliver output
• Candidate will be responsible for identifying potential and recurring issues and provide solutions for the same
• Understand and follow organizational, team level processes and best practices.

Key competencies required:

• Strong Java 8/17 or higher knowledge and skills with focus on multithreading.
• Good working experience on React/JS
• Strong Spring/Spring Boot Framework experience
• Strong knowledge of relational database (Sybase/SQL Server), DB Design & SQL.
• Good foundation in data structures and algorithms
• Good understanding of software design principles and patterns and their application.
• Ability to independently work across different tech-stack.
• Good to have:
• Working knowledge to DevOps toolchain (Jenkins CI/CD, Ansible, Git, JIRA)
• Unix Shell Scripting

Skills, experience, qualifications, and knowledge required:

• Minimum 6 to 9 years of relevant experience.
• Good communication skills and must be able to interact at all levels on a wide range of discussions.
• Creative problem-solving ability, inquisitive mind-set, comfortable with working on ambiguous situations. Ability to work independently with limited oversight.
• Flexibility (Openness to Change) – Adapts effectively to changing plans, domains, and priorities; Is open and flexible when faced with changing project constraints and timelines.
• Attention to detail and high-quality standards of documentation, processes and control environment
• Confident self-starter who can work under pressure, using their own initiative and with the drive to see projects through to completion.
• Self-starter and proactive personality

Mandatory Skill Set :

• Solid understanding of Core Java.
• Solid understanding of the OOPS concepts including multithreading, exception handling, containers etc.
• Must have worked on J2EE features like Hibernate, Spring, Spring Boot etc.

Desired Skill Set :

• Good to have relevant DB knowledge like Sybase / oracle
• Good to have knowledge on the DevOps toolchains like CI / CD, Jenkins, GIT etc.

Position Specifications:

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.

*The benefits are subject to change and will be in accordance with Company’s policies as may be applicable from time to time).