Job Title:  Vice President, Electronic FX Strategist (Singapore)

Job Description

Job Title: Electronic FX Strategist

Corporate Title: Vice President

Division: Wholesale Digital Office, Global Markets

Location: Singapore

Nomura 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 three business divisions: Retail, Asset Management, and Wholesale (Global Markets and Investment Banking). Founded in 1925, the firm practices disciplined entrepreneurship while building on a long tradition of serving clients with creative solutions and considered thought leadership. For further information about Nomura, visit www.nomura.com.

Department Overview

E-Trading Strategy FX sits within Nomura’s Global Markets division. FX is a strategic franchise for Nomura whose direction is driven from Singapore with the team focusing on all quant and tech elements of the Electronic FX flows within Nomura. This ranges from market making (the models, the curve and subsequent price distribution), our aggregator and the algos within it and other such projects such as our web-enabled Single Dealer Platform. In short – if it’s electronically handled within Nomura it flows through one of the systems the team owns.

This is a very exciting opportunity to be a key part of this growing team who are focused on building out the Nomura FX franchise. We are in the midst of a number of transformational deliveries with targeted franchise growth. You will be working with the wider development team in Singapore and London to build out a number of innovative solutions for our clients – all of which need to operate in an ultra-low latency environment to be competitive. Our focus is to build high-quality engineered platforms that can handle all aspects of our business – both today and tomorrow as we grow our 24 hours a day, 5 and half days a week FX business.

Responsibilities:

• Development and engineering of all aspects of FX market making and FX algorithmic trading
• Manage and work on projects related to FX products
• To liaise and work closely with the Macro Trading and Sales teams

Requirements:

• Minimum of 7 years of strong experience in high performance, advanced Java with knowledge of core data structure design
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in Financial Markets with pricing and / or market making
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in front-office stakeholder management
• Experience in FX such as market microstructure, order management or Regulatory Reporting would be beneficial
• Prior experience of Spring Boot, Gradle, Solace, FIX protocol, concurrent programming, JVM tuning, and Full Stack (React, Vue.js) would be beneficial
• Familiarity with AI coding assistants and ability to effectively leverage them while maintaining code quality standards
• Strong communication and collaboration skills across technical and business teams
• Minimum Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Systems Engineering or Computer Science

Nomura Leadership Behaviours 

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: Respect DEI, foster a culture of psychological safety in the workplace and cultivate a "Risk Culture" (Challenge, Escalate and Respect).

Diversity Statement

Nomura is committed to an employment policy of equal opportunities, and is fundamentally opposed to any less favourable treatment accorded to existing or potential members of staff on the grounds of race, creed, colour, nationality, disability, marital status, pregnancy, gender or sexual orientation.

Nomura is an Equal Opportunity Employer