Job Title:  Sr. Principal Software Engineering Manager

Nomura 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 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.

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:

We’re looking for an exceptional leader to lead our Software Engineering team in Powai. This team is responsible for building products and platforms that improve developer productivity and help modernize the software portfolio to be cloud-native with AI-augmentation wherever applicable. This leadership role interfaces with application teams on the consuming side and with infrastructure teams on the providing side.  In this dual role, this leader will optimize the developer experience by rationalizing the architecture and engineering practices, map those to the underlying platforms, measuring their effective use with metrics. The leader will guide the team to develop self-service APIs/CLIs for golden paths, Chat functionality, Messaging Channels, Integrations, and AI Agents for developers, and help them build software with speed, safety, security, scalability and resilience. In this multi-faceted role, you’ll serve as both a hands-on technical lead and an empathetic people manager. You’ll guide a talented group of engineers from diverse backgrounds, helping them grow while driving team performance and fostering a culture of technical mentorship. You’ll play a key role in designing and building robust frontend and backend systems that enhance our platform and automation capabilities. Your leadership will shape our technical vision and execution, in close collaboration with Product and other stakeholders. From driving engineering best practices to improving code quality and scaling our systems, your impact will be felt across the organization. If you're passionate about architecture and engineering, excited to lead by example, and ready to inspire a high-performing team, we’d love to meet you.

Position Specifications:

Key Responsibilities

• Manage a team of architects and software engineers (30%)
  • Manage employee’s performance by holding regular 1-1’s, conducting performance reviews, setting objectives for each team member, and overseeing team’s work
  • Provide leadership and coaching to develop your team members
  • Provide technical mentorship and guidance to the team and top management, as well as provide input into cross-team projects and initiatives
  • Support established organizational objectives by developing goals and strategies.
  • Report on goals and represent the teams to senior leadership
  • Participate in hiring and recruiting initiatives
• Analyze, design, and develop software to improve the company's platform and expand its automation capabilities. (30%)
  • Design and develop software that expands and evolves our core product, going beyond platform or automation work to drive meaningful customer-facing improvements
  • Lead technical design and execution across projects, serving as a hands-on tech lead while collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders
  • Build and extend existing features while prototyping and launching new capabilities with an emphasis on speed, quality, and innovation
  • Identify and implement opportunities to integrate AI into current and net-new product experiences, working closely with Product and Design
  • Bring a product-focused mindset to backend and frontend engineering, ensuring solutions are reliable, scalable, and impactful
  • Contribute to long-term technical planning, architectural decisions, and team-level execution strategies
• Participate in sprint planning, and partner with Product to ensure the team is delivering quality technical output. (20%)
  • Lead the team in translating business requirements and R&D initiatives into technical requirements, including selection of appropriate technologies
• Participate in cross-team initiatives to drive engineering best-practices (20%)
  • Conduct code and architecture reviews across the platform
  • Monitor and contribute to improving code quality and decreasing time to deliver code, by staying involved in initiatives around on-call rotations, application performance monitoring, test automation, development environments, and/or continuous delivery pipelines
  • Maintain good relationships with internal and external stakeholders
  • Engage in client calls when necessary to provide technical insight and roadmap

Mind Set:

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.