Vice President Information Technology

Nomura Overview:

Nomura is a financial services group with an integrated global network. By connecting markets East & West, Nomura services the needs of individuals, institutions, corporates and governments through its four business divisions: Wealth Management, Investment Management, Wholesale (Global Markets and Investment Banking), and 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 supports the group's global businesses. With world-class capabilities in trading support, research, information technology, financial control, operations, risk management and legal support, the firm plays a key role in facilitating the group's global operations across four international regions.

At Nomura, creating an inclusive workplace is a priority. Our approach to inclusion encompasses a variety of initiatives, including sensitization campaigns, implementing conducive policies & programs, providing infrastructure support and engaging in community events. Over time, we have made meaningful progress in these areas, and this commitment has been well-recognized across the industry. We are proud recipients of the prestigious Top 10 Employers award by the India Workplace Equality Index (IWEI), IWEI Gold Employer of Choice awards, India CSR Leadership Award 2024 for Holistic Village Development Program and the YUVA Unstoppable Changemaker Awards.

Role & Responsibilities:

• Act as Technical Owner for a small set of both existing and some new components within the Equity Risk Ecosystem
• Own and manage an agile development process for a small number of local resources
• Provide Technical guidance / mentorship to Junior developers.
• Produce Robust, Tested, Modern components utilizing Modern Technologies / Methodologies
• Work with BA/PM or end users to gather and review user requirements, provide suggestions on design and enhancements
• Follow global development/change management standards to deliver quality enhancements/solutions in timely manner
• Be a good team player to ensure a cohesive culture to effectively solve local/global business problem while building strategic platform for Global Equities.
• Be a key partner of the Equities production services team to help ensure maximum up time of systems and minimize impact to businesses when issues occur.

Required:

• Provide Leadership to small team of developers
• Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science / engineering or similar
• 7+ years demonstrable experience of hands-on development experience in any language. (C# / Java / Scala / Kotlin, Go, C++), utilizing agile methodologies
• Ability to work with global teams in matrix reporting environment with strong interpersonal skills
• Ability to cope with rapid front-office business needs and to deal with changing priorities
• Ability to communicate and act professionally with IT staff and business clients while under strict deadlines.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills at multiple levels with strong status reporting skills
• Fluent written and spoken English

Technical

• Experience of deploying to K8s.
• A Desire to work on a system that is porting from dotnet framework to Kubernetes native stack.
• Understanding of relational database technologies, SQL / Stored Proc, with In memory caching technology like Redis
• Understanding of infrastructure requirements for local/global delivery platforms.

Nomura Leadership Behaviours:

Leadership

Behaviours Description Element

Exploring Insights & Vision

Comprehensively analyse the nature of the problems we face and set our focus toward the future vision

• Gather Intelligence
• Create a vision
• Identify an issue

Making Strategic Decisions

Analyse options and feasibility to resolve issues, in making judgments and recommendations

• Identify countermeasures
• Assess feasibility
• Make a judgment

Inspiring Entrepreneurship in People

Promotes the vision and goals to others in such a way that inspires commitment and independent contributions

• Influence
• Inspire
• Commit

Elevating Organizational Capacity Maximize organizational productivity through leadership development and engagement

• Have an ownership in own development
• Support other's growth
• Encourage organizational growth

Inclusion

Respect diverse perspectives and promote psychological safety and the creation of a risk culture

• Foster psychological
• safety
• Encourage the active
• participation of all talent
• Foster a risk culture

We are committed to providing equal opportunities throughout employment including in the recruitment, training and development of employees. We prohibit discrimination in the workplace whether on grounds of gender, marital or domestic partnership status, pregnancy, carer's responsibilities, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, race, color, national or ethnic origins, religious belief, disability or age.

*Applying for this role does not amount to a job offer or create an obligation on Nomura to provide a job offer. The expression Nomura refers to Nomura Services India Private Limited together with its affiliates.

*The benefits are subject to change and will be in accordance with Company's policies as may be applicable from time to time).