Principal Software Engineer​/Tech Lead

Principal Software Engineer/Tech Lead

Job Code: 14669 Country: US City:
New York Skill Category: IT/Technology

Description:

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  Aon's Benefit Index®, Nomura's benefits rank #1 amongst our competitors.

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.

• 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

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

• 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
• No
  
  SQL:
  
  Experience with No
  
  SQL 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
• Dev…