Job Title:  Principal PS

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.

Business Unit - CIO – CTO Platform Services & Engineering Team - FinOps Role - FinOps Lead Position - Vice President Experience: 10 - 15 years Responsibilities: This role is responsible for developing and implementing a robust program for cloud cost management that includes: a service-based cost allocation and classification strategy, tracking and management of cloud costs, cloud services rates settings, and defining consumption and show back/charge-back reports from both the provider and consumer perspective.  Create Cloud cost optimization framework and Governance mechanism.  Establish strong cost management practice in the Public Cloud for AWS and Azure.  Identify opportunities for cost optimization; Analyze AWS / Azure financial reports and identify opportunities for optimization.  Optimize Cloud costs by defining / tracking cost plans, reserved Instances, enterprise saving plans.  Develop and maintain cloud infrastructure capacity and demand forecasts – incl. day to day monitoring and tracking of cloud capacity & resource mgmt. for all services  Define cloud cost performance KPIs and track against agreed KPIs on a regular basis.  Implement cost optimization and governance strategies for continuous cost optimization.  Help define, implement, maintain and automatically remediate tagging standards for AWS and Azure.  A strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical audience, as well as influence and negotiate with stakeholders. Skills and qualifications:  A bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or a related field, or equivalent work experience  5+ years of experience with one/more public/private cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, Azure etc.).  Experience with capacity forecasting, cloud cost optimization techniques, financial reporting, and workflow management in a large service operations environment. Familiarity with monitoring and reporting tools/APIs.  Understanding of cloud providers, platforms and configurations and familiarity with workload usage/consumption patterns on cloud.  Good understanding of billing on cloud platforms (incl. impact of usage patterns on TCO)  Ability to support agile decision making across multiple cloud services, with short-cycle analytics and problem solving.  Ability to develop effective reporting schemes/metrics to maintain strong control on usage and billing of cloud services.  Ability to liaise with multiple stakeholders (across IT, business functions) and proactively identify opportunities for service improvement.  Demonstrated skills in working across multi-functional teams to bring increased business value through seeing the bigger picture, collaboration and alignment of diverse needs  FinOps Certified Practitioner/ FinOps Certified Professional  AWS Certified Solutions Architect certification preferred

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.