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 <a href="http://www.nomura.com">www.nomura.com</a>. 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. Business Unit Overview Global Execution Services (GES) Technology builds and maintains software solutions used by agency-model 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 high-touch trading group, top-ranked Commission Management services, award-winning 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 industry-standard trading technologies and has been an innovator at the forefront of the market's evolution. For more information, please visit <a href="http://www.instinet.com">www.instinet.com</a>. 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. TradeSpex is Nomura’s award-winning equity analytics suite of applications that empower users to make better investment and trading decisions. By leveraging these cutting-edge tools, our clients continually analyze, evaluate/refine trading strategies and thus can gain a competitive edge in the market, making more strategic decisions on data-driven insights and analytics.Role & Responsibilities: With a vision to replace traditional UIs with Agentic AI workflows where possible across all platforms, we are seeking a highly skilled individual to join our team working on development of large-scale equity analytics applications. The role combines deep backend engineering expertise with emerging Agentic AI technologies to build intelligent systems that drive business value. This is an individual contributor position. The selected person would be part of Global Analytics Dev team in GES Technology and hands on lead AI initiatives across entire analytics suite of applications. It is very high ownership position as the entire product suite is delivered and managed completely out of Mumbai. Key responsibilities: <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Design, develop, and maintain robust backend services and APIs for our large-scale application.</li> </ul> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Architect and implement Agentic AI workflows that transform passive & complex UI click based workflows into interactive conversational requests towards enhancing user experience</li> </ul> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Integrate AI agents with existing backend systems, ensuring seamless data flow and system reliability</li> </ul> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Develop and maintain scalable micro-services architecture to support AI agent orchestration and coordination</li> </ul> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Understand the existing business functions and participate in defining new solutions that meet business objectives.</li> </ul> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Work with the product team, stakeholders and end-users for contribution towards requirement discovery and project prioritization.</li> </ul> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Design and develop high-quality software deliveries within the committed deadlines.</li> </ul> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Agile –participate in weekly scrums </li> </ul> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Collaborate with various development and support teams across regions</li> </ul> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">L3 support – quick support resolution of production and user issues, application testing and maintenance releases. Interface with other support teams, global internal and external clients related to support, use and output of the products. As part of global team, act as key contact point for queries of both technical and functional nature. </li> </ul> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Problem ownership – from Incident to resolution. Root cause analysis & fixes for maintaining and improving system stability.</li> </ul> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Willing to own deliveries and work hands-on across all aspects of software delivery including development, testing, documentation and support.</li> </ul> Key Skills: <table class="MsoNormalTable" style="width:6.45in;border-collapse:collapse;border:none" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tbody> <tr style="height:12.15pt"> <td style="border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;background-color:#002060;padding:0.0in 5.4pt 0.0in 5.4pt" valign="top"> </td> <td style="width:234.05pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-left:none;background-color:#002060;padding:0.0in 5.4pt 0.0in 5.4pt" valign="top"> Mandatory </td> <td style="width:1.75in;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-left:none;background-color:#002060;padding:0.0in 5.4pt 0.0in 5.4pt" valign="top"> Desirable </td> </tr> <tr style="height:12.15pt"> <td style="border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-top:none;background-color:#d9d9d9;padding:0.0in 5.4pt 0.0in 5.4pt" valign="bottom"> Domain </td> <td style="width:234.05pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0.0in 5.4pt 0.0in 5.4pt" valign="bottom"> </td> <td style="width:1.75in;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0.0in 5.4pt 0.0in 5.4pt" valign="bottom"> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Investment Banking domain - Good understanding of capital markets</li> </ul> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Knowledge of Equity Trading Markets – especially Compliance related issues and challenges</li> </ul> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:91.75pt"> <td style="border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-top:none;background-color:#d9d9d9;padding:0.0in 5.4pt 0.0in 5.4pt"> Technical </td> <td style="width:234.05pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0.0in 5.4pt 0.0in 5.4pt" valign="top"> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Excellent technical skills in <ul style="list-style-type:circle;margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Strong Core Java</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">MS SQL or similar DB, SQL</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">UNIX</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">DevOps – CI/CD, Gitlab, Nexus </li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">AWS</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Very strong Java Multi-threading – concurrency, synchronization and memory management</li> </ul> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">Strong knowledge and experience of distributed systems, micro-services architecture and RESTful API design</li> </ul> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">Demonstrated experience with LLM APIs and AI agent frameworks</li> </ul> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">Understanding of prompt engineering, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) and agent orchestration patterns</li> </ul> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Very detail oriented with excellent analytical skills</li> </ul> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Excellent verbal and written communication skills </li> </ul> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Quick learner </li> </ul> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Highly proactive and takes initiative to identify problem areas and evolve solutions.</li> </ul> </td> <td style="width:1.75in;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0.0in 5.4pt 0.0in 5.4pt" valign="top"> Python </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> We are committed to providing equal opportunities throughout employment including in the recruitment, training and development of employees. 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