Principal Software Engineer/Tech Lead

Job Title: Principal Software Engineer/Tech Lead

Department: Technology

Location: NY

Corporate Title: Vice President

The pay range for this position at commencement of employment is expected to be between $160,000 - $190,000 per year* (see below footnote for additional compensation and benefits information).

Company overview

Nomura is a financial services group with an integrated global network. By connecting markets East & West, we service the needs of individuals, institutions, corporates and governments through our four business divisions: Wealth Management, Investment Management, Wholesale (Global Markets and Investment Banking) and Banking.

Driven by the insights of some 28,000 people worldwide, we put our clients at the center of everything we do, delivering unparalleled access to, from and within Asia. For further information about Nomura, visit www.nomura.com

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Department Overview:

The Information Technology department at Nomura is at the forefront of innovation, driving technology solutions that empower our business and enhance client experiences. We leverage cutting-edge technologies to develop and maintain robust systems and infrastructure, ensuring the security, reliability, and efficiency of our operations. Join our team and be part of a dynamic and collaborative environment that embraces technological advancements to deliver value and drive our digital transformation journey. 

Key Responsibilities:

Technical Ownership & Leadership

• Act as Technical Owner for a collection of existing and new components within the Prime Equity Finance space
• Own and manage an agile development process for the local team
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to development team
• Provide leadership to local team of developers while remaining hands-on

Development & Architecture

• Produce robust, tested, modern components utilizing modern technologies and methodologies
• Own development of Java applications, ensuring focus on correctness, resilience and quality
• Take ownership of the full software development lifecycle, from initial discussions through to design, development, testing, deployment
• Conduct code reviews and design reviews to ensure best practices and high standards are followed
• Follow global development/change management standards to deliver quality enhancements/solutions in timely manner

Business Partnership

• Collaborate closely with traders and operations as part of a team to understand their needs and create technical solutions
• Be a good team player to ensure a cohesive culture to effectively solve local/global business problem while building strategic platform for Global Equities
• Ability to cope with dynamic front-office business needs, stakeholder communication and to deal with changing priorities both from business and technology
• Ability to communicate and act professionally with IT staff and business clients whilst under strict deadlines

Global Collaboration

• Be part of a global team with members in Tokyo, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Mumbai, London, and New York, contributing to collective goals and supporting colleagues
• Collaborate on projects across other technology, business, client and vendor teams
• Ability to work with global teams in matrix reporting environment with strong interpersonal skills
• Document discussions / solutions / processes and track development and issues using Confluence and Jira
• Share ideas/observations/improvements with the global team

Production Support

• Primary support is covered by a separate Production Services team; however, at times you may need to assist Production Services and traders to resolve issues and to document postmortems and to own follow ups
• Help ensure maximum uptime of systems and minimize impact to businesses when issues occur

Required Qualifications:

Education & Core Experience

• Provide leadership and functional expertise to the local NY Prime Equity Finance development team
• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science / Engineering / Math / Physics or similar
• 10-15 years demonstrable experience of hands-on development experience
• Minimum 7+ years hands-on Java/C++/C#/Rust/Python development
• Strong domain knowledge of Securities Lending, including trade lifecycle, locate/availability management, collateral processing, rate calculation and funding
• Knowledge of Equity Synthetics and Equity Trading workflows

Technical Skills - Mandatory

• Java: Java 21, Collections, Spring Boot 3, Java Streams API, concurrency, profiling, garbage collection, JDBC, JMS
• Databases: Strong understanding of relational databases (SQL / Stored Procedures), query plan optimization
• NoSQL: Experience with NoSQL DBs like MongoDB and in-memory caching technology like Redis
• Messaging: Experience with messaging and streaming data infrastructure
• Design: Strong understanding of software design principles and patterns, including user experience driven UI development
• DevOps: Experience deploying microservices to Docker/Kubernetes
• Infrastructure: Understanding of infrastructure tooling and best practices

Technical Skills - Preferred

• Web/UI: HTML5 frameworks: React, Redux, Websockets, CSS/Tailwind/Ag Grid
• Streaming: Kafka/Pulsar, streaming / reactive programming, serialization protocols, error handling, work distribution
• Stream Processing: Real world experience with Risingwave/Flink/Kafka Streams/Spark
• Integration: Enterprise Integration Patterns, Apache Camel
• Cloud: Experience with AWS, S3, Lambda
• CI/CD: GitLab CI/CD, Ansible, Observability/Telemetry
• Containers: Docker/Podman, Kubernetes
• Unix: Bash scripting, system and process monitoring
• Data Science: Python, Pandas, Graphing Plotly, Machine Learning SciPy
• Optimization: Linear Programming and ML techniques
• Data Analytics: Experience using KDB / Clickhouse / Snowflake
• Workflow: BPMN / Camunda
• AI: Agentic agent development, best practices, guardrails and integration into the developer and system workflows

Soft Skills

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills at multiple levels with strong status reporting skills
• Proactive learning mindset and the ability to take initiative in identifying and solving problems
• Demonstrated interest in technology and modern software design/architecture

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: 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, and discretionary awards 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