Job Title:  Java Developer- Analyst

Corporate Title: Analyst

Department: Finance Technology Group / Corporate Technology Services 

Location: New York 

The pay range for this position at commencement of employment is expected to be between $90,000 and $110,000 year*

Company Overview

Nomura is a global financial services group with an integrated network spanning over 30 countries and regions. By connecting markets East & West, Nomura services the needs of individuals, institutions, corporates and governments through its three business divisions: Retail, Wholesale (Global Markets and Investment Banking), and Investment Management. 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.

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Department Overview

Corporate Technology Services undertake planning, analysis, development, project and delivery management and testing of technology services to support the operations of the Nomura Group
 

Role Description

The role requires a high-caliber, hands on, experienced Java developer with a background in developing services, interfaces and database models in post trade processing. Repo, OTC, MSFTA and Stock Borrow Loans product knowledge would be an advantage.

The successful candidate will join a global technology team responsible for the transformation of the existing platform and the development of new solutions. The team has excellent relationships with its global business sponsors and offers an exciting opportunity to work closely with several business and technology units across the firm

The role will consist of building out new services in addition to enhancements to the existing application platform, with the right candidate having a good deal of autonomy to improve the platform and provide technical guidance and reviews for others in the global team.

Specific Responsibilities

• Developing and reviewing solutions aligned to the application roadmap, replacing and updating existing application components. Liaising with on-shore and off-shore change and development leads in both the Middle Office and Technology in addition to the L3/RTB.
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• Provide expertise and technical solutions to the Collateral Technology function. This will involve:
• Reviewing user stories and requirements and providing technical feedback on these.
• Authoring and reviewing functional and technical designs based on business requirements/user stories with a view to having these used by development teams
• Facilitating the ongoing development (including assisting the team with code reviews) and being a point of escalation for issues and questions throughout the project lifecycle with the business and providing technical domain expertise into the team
• Providing input to the platform roadmap and delivery to agreed timescales and requirements for the margining platforms. This will involve:
• Tracking and maintaining progress against Epics and Tasks.
• Manage technical governance including highlighting and providing solutions to any potential risks/issues, delays and scope creep as well as status reporting and updates to internal stakeholders
• Ensuring delivery of these items of work to Nomura development standards and adhering to all development lifecycle processes
• Regional L3 escalation coverage
• As part of the global application team, providing regional technical SME input to the Production Services / L2 teams

Skills, Experience, Qualifications and Knowledge Required

• Meaningful experience of Java server side, Microservice and system interface development
  • Java 8/11
  • Spring
• API development
• Messaging Services (MQ or JMS)
• RDBMS Databases (MSSQL or Oracle)
• Experience of Continuous Integration and Build Repositories
• Agile development methods & test driven development

The candidate is expected to be proficient in DevOps toolchains (GITLab, Jenkins build and deploy, automated testing) and should be fully embracing and be an advocate of Agile working practices.

Any previous experience of the TIBCO BusinessWorks platform would be a plus, as a primary goal with the transformation of the application is to migrate away from this platform.

In addition, any experience or willingness to learn React/Angular UI development and Containerization implementations and deployments would be a plus.

*base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, corporate and functional title and duties, job-related knowledge and advanced degrees, skills, and experience.

If hired, employee will be in an “at-will position” and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors”.

Nomura is an Equal Opportunity Employer