Regional Head of Fixed Income Production Services

Overview

Job Title:

Regional Head of Fixed Income Production Services

Corporate

Title:

Vice President

Department:
Wholesale Production Services

Location:

London (Hybrid)

Lead a critical regional team ensuring operational excellence for Nomura's Fixed Income trading operations in EMEA covering pre-trade (pricing and execution) and post-trade (trade processing and risk). Drive technological innovation while managing complex production environments supporting critical trading applications. Shape the future of our production services through strategic leadership and hands-on technical expertise.

You will be responsible for the management and development of a high-performing team in our London location while providing regional leadership and oversight, governance, and the execution of running the bank for the Fixed Income (Rates, Credit, Securitized Products) business using your technical and business knowledge in this challenging and fast-paced environment.

This is a senior technical hands-on leadership position responsible for ensuring stability in the very liquid environment of business-driven, technical, and regulatory changes across several applications within the function.

The ideal candidate will have a forward thinking, strategic attitude with the ability to proactively identify trends, resolve issues and drive continuous improvement through innovative technologies. You will be responsible for the development and nurturing of our next generation of talent as well as the continuous upskilling of an experienced team to keep up with our ever-evolving technology.

• Core Experience & Leadership
• Proven experience within a Production Support role at major investment bank(s)
• Proven leadership and team management skills (with multiple concurrent resources)
• Demonstrated ability to attract, retain, and promote talent within the team
• Experience in the role of coach/mentor to junior members of the Production Services team to cultivate junior talent
• Proven ability to measure and increase performance using various metrics

• Financial Markets & Business Knowledge
• Working knowledge of Fixed Income products (Rates and Credit)
• Thorough understanding of the trade lifecycle
• Understanding and experience with trade valuation, PnL, and risk

• Stakeholder Management & Communication
• Experience facing off to senior IT management and business stakeholders across Trading, Sales, Middle Office, and Compliance with the ability to deliver updates accurately and deliberately for the intended audience
• Be able to build strong, collaborative relationships with the business, application development teams, Infrastructure and other functional groups globally

• Systems & Infrastructure Management
• Experience supporting large enterprise applications
• Strong proficiency in various technologies including Linux, databases, middleware, and networks enabling the candidate to provide strong hands-on troubleshooting and incident management capabilities during outages
• Operating systems knowledge (Windows, Unix, Linux)
• Good working knowledge of databases and writing SQL queries

• Incident & Problem Management
• Experience with Service Now or similar platforms for Incident, Change, Request, and Problem Management
• This role will be the point of escalation for the clients, and as such the ideal candidate must have proven experience in managing IT incidents and problem management processes for large complex systems
• Take ownership of issues and see through to completion as well as diligently managing end-to-end Change/Release processes across the regional Fixed Income systems

• Development & Automation
• Experience with modern software development practices including agile methodologies
• Understanding of Agile practices and principles
• Scripting skills (e.g. Shell Scripting, Python, Perl)
• Experience in supporting and administering Dev Ops tools as part of the deployment pipeline e.g. Git, Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, Elastic, Jira etc.

• Emerging Technologies & Innovation
• Working knowledge of cloud technologies (AWS, Azure or similar)
• Knowledge and experience in AI, ML, and other automated solutions
• Lead digital transformation initiatives within the production services function

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