Job Title:  Delivery Manager

Corporate Title: Associate

Department: Investment Technology

The pay range for this position at commencement of employment is expected to be between $120,000 and $180,000 year * (see below footnote for additional compensation and benefits information).

Company 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.

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Division Overview: NAM International

The international business brings together a legacy of investing in public and private markets on a global scale. Through active management, we deliver differentiated and innovative solutions across equities, fixed income, multi-asset, and private credit supported by a team of disciplined and tenured investment professionals. Building upon Nomura’s century long heritage, our teams are responsible stewards of clients’ capital. We approach everything we do with accountability, curiosity, and integrity to help clients across wealth and institutional channels navigate an ever-changing market, capture opportunities around the world, and reach long-term investment goals.

Role Description:

Are you passionate about using and growing your agile and solution delivery experience to bring business value and digitization strategies to life? The Nomura Asset Management technology team has an opportunity for you to bring your passion and make an immediate impact delivering technology and transformative solutions for our global asset management business.

We’re going through significant and exciting change, and this is an opportunity to work in a dynamic environment to drive Transformation and change in Nomura Asset Management.  You will work within an agile team including Product owners, Architects, Data Managers, Technical Leads, Software Engineers, and Business Analysts with a key focus to drive innovation and continuously deliver business outcomes.

As part of the Delivery team, your key responsibilities will span:

Project Planning, Delivery Management & Team Events

• Organize comprehensive plans within the Atlassian tooling and proactively drive delivery to achieve objectives
• Apply strong business and technical knowledge to drive decision-making and guide project execution
• Monitor progress to ensure the team meets its quarterly delivery commitments
• Maintain clear and consistent communication with stakeholders, including Leadership across technology, program management, and business, ensuring visibility of project status
• Confirm that epic and story outcomes align with the projects defined success criteria
• Track and collaborate on Risks, Assumptions, Issues, and Dependencies (RAID) to mitigate potential delivery challenges
• Support the management of team dependencies by facilitating scrum of scrums and other collaborative events

Skills, experience, qualifications and knowledge required:

• 5+ years of experience within Project Manager, Delivery Manager, SCRUM Master, or equivalent roles
• Leveraging Agile frameworks across SCRUM and Kanban to suit team requirements
• Experience leading daily standups, sprint planning, retrospectives, and other team events
• Experience working with DevOps teams and using Jira & Confluence to keep your team efficient & organized
• Experience producing team metrics including velocity, capacity management, burn down, bottleneck identification, story point forecasting
• Understanding of Engineer tooling, development environments, and ways of working
• Ability to learn a business area quickly and understand their overall technology portfolio
• Preferred qualifications & skillsets: Financial services understanding including securities and mutual funds

Nomura Competencies

Explore Insights & Vision

• Identify the underlying causes of problems faced by you or your team and define a clear vision and direction for the future.

Making Strategic Decisions

• Evaluate all the options for resolving the problems and effectively prioritize actions or recommendations.

Inspire Entrepreneurship in People

• Inspire team members through effective communication of ideas and motivate them to actively enhance productivity.

Elevate Organizational Capability

• Engage proactively in professional development and enhance team productivity through the promotion of knowledge sharing.

Inclusion

• Foster a culture of inclusion and psychological safety in the workplace and cultivate a "Risk Culture" (Challenge, Escalate and Respect).

*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. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including a sign-on bonus, restricted stock units, discretionary awards and eligibility for commissions for applicable sales roles in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits, such as vacation, sick time, and parental leave), dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.

If hired in the U.S., 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