Nomura Overview:
Nomura is an Asiabased 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 .
Business Unit Overview
Global Execution Services (GES) Technology builds and maintains software solutions used by agencymodel 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 hightouch trading group, topranked Commission Management services, awardwinning 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 industrystandard trading technologies and has been an innovator at the forefront of the markets 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.
Position Specifications:
Corporate Title
Associate
Functional Title
Lead Developer
Experience
58 years
Qualification
B.E/B.Tech/MCA/M.Tech in Computer Science or another such quantitative field. Ideally a Master s degree or above.
Requisition No
Role & Responsibilities:
Instinet Central Data Warehouse team works to design and build inhouse datalake solution for storing firm s trading activity for Cash equities flows. The team also works on building Instinet CAT trade reporting (ICAT) solution. This datalake also servers Instinet business users beyond CAT reporting.
This is an
individual contributor position
within Mumbai IT team and is a critical part of our Engineering organization. The selected person would be part of Nomura s Global Execution Services CAT IT team. The selected person would report to IT Lead in Mumbai and would work closely with global CAT IT team.
- We are looking for an exceptional Java Technologist to join our CAT development team for building a highperformance, lowlatency platform. You will be responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing systems that handle realtime market data, order routing, and execution at microsecond latencies.
You should be passionate about writing highly efficient, concurrent, and performancecritical code and have strong knowledge of Java internals and lowlatency system design. - You would be
part of team working at the forefront of trading applications technology
, which includes onpremise deployments as well migration to AWS, bigdata ingestion and analytics, distributed systems and algorithmic complexity. - You would
work towards a serviceoriented architecture and launching dataservices/microservices
from the groundup as well as building systems interacting with our trading ones.
The role and responsibilities are as follows:
- Responsible for developing highly performant and scalable components that are able to handle large amounts of financial data.
- Help develop distributed systems with concurrent access and usage patterns. Design and develop highquality software deliveries within the committed deadlines.
- Work with the product team, stakeholders and endusers for contribution towards requirement discovery and project prioritization.
- Willing to work in UK and US shift hours from 12 to 9 PM IST.
- Willing to own deliveries and work handson across all aspects of software delivery including development, testing, documentation and support.
- Collaborate with various development, QA and support teams across different regions
- Provide regular updates regarding status or progress made to managers and stakeholders.
- Contribute towards establishing software delivery best practices. Collaborate on architecture, design decisions, and code reviews
- L3 support quick support resolution of production and user issues, application testing and maintenance releases.
- Willing to learn new technologies/ tools as required, in order to effectively deliver output.
Key Skills:
Mandatory
Desirable
Domain
- Investment Banking domain Good understanding of capital markets
- Knowledge of Equity Trading Markets especially Compliance related issues and challenges
Technical
- Expert Level Java 8+ and SpringBoot
- Strong knowledge & experience of memory management, multithreading concurrency and synchronization.
- Strong AWS hands on cloud experience.
- Good GitLab CI / CD understanding.
- Basic knowledge of database systems; relational, NoSQL
- Strong experience in delivering highly scalable, faulttolerant, supportable and wellarchitected solutions
- Strong fundamental knowledge of computer science algorithms, datastructures and design patterns.
- Experience designing distributed systems at scale handling large data sets leveraging technologies like Apache Spark, Kafka etc.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Highly proactive and takes initiative to identify problem areas and evolve solutions.
- Significant cloud experience, preferably with AWS
- Unix and scripting skills
