Job Description

Nomura Overview:

Nomura is an Asia-based 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 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 Overview

Global Execution Services (GES) Technology builds and maintains software solutions used by agency-model execution business (Instinet) of the Nomura Group, This business provides brokerage services to clients in over 60 markets around the world. Through its advanced suite of electronic trading strategies, experienced high-touch trading group, top-ranked Commission Management services, award-winning desktop trading platform, and unparalleled access to insightful analytics, content and unique liquidity, execution services business helps institutions lower overall trading costs and ultimately improve investment performance. Nomura has introduced a range of now industry-standard trading technologies,and has been an innovator at the forefront of the market's evolution. For more information, please visit www.instinet.com

GES Technology India team is an integral part of the global team, which is spread across US, UK, HK and India. It works in partnership with the regions to deliver technology solutions for global execution business.

TradeSpex is Nomura’s award-winning equity analytics suite of applications that empower users to make better investment and trading decisions. By leveraging these cutting-edge tools, our clients continually analyze, evaluate/refine trading strategies and thus can gain a competitive edge in the market, making more strategic decisions on data-driven insights and analytics.

Role & Responsibilities:

This is a senior individual contributor position. The selected person would be part of GES Tech India – TradeSpex Dev team and would report to its India IT Head. It is very high ownership position as the entire product suite is delivered and managed completely out of Mumbai IT team. The role and responsibilities are as follows:

• Develop and maintain large, complex TradeSpex Product Suite. Contribute to development of features.

• Understand the existing business functions and participate in defining new UX solutions that meet business objectives.

• Work with the product team, stakeholders and end-users for contribution towards requirement discovery and project prioritization.

• Design and develop high-quality software deliveries within the committed deadlines.

• Agile –participate in weekly scrums

• Collaborate with various development and support teams across regions

• L3 support – quick support resolution of production and user issues, application testing and maintenance releases. Interface with other support teams, global internal and external clients related to support, use and output of the products. As part of global team, act as key contact point for queries of both technical and functional nature.

• Problem ownership – from Incident to resolution. Root cause analysis & fixes for maintaining and improving system stability.

• Provide regular updates regarding status or progress made to managers and stakeholders.

• Gain understanding of various applications and systems being developed by peer groups.

• Willing to own deliveries and work hands-on across all aspects of software delivery including development, testing, documentation and support.

• Willing to learn Java with multi-threading and other new technologies/ tools as required, in order to effectively deliver output.

Position Specifications :

Experience :10+ years

Qualification :B.E/B.Tech/MCA/M.Tech

Mandatory Skill Sets :

• Excellent UX design skills

• Excellent technical skills in
• Excellent React.js
• Typescript or JavaScript/ES6
• HTML5, CSS3
• NPM, Webpack, Rollup
• REST
• MS SQL or similar DB, SQL
• UNIX
• DevOps – CI/CD, Gitlab, Nexus

• Experience of Test Driven development

• Strong skills in application performance management and event driven architecture

• Very detail oriented with excellent analytical skills

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Quick learner

• Highly proactive and takes initiative to identify problem areas and evolve solutions.

Desired Skill Set :

• Investment Banking domain - Good understanding of capital markets
• Knowledge of Equity Trading Markets – especially Compliance related issues and challenges

• Knowledge of Core Java with multi-threading is a strong plus. If not, then person should