About this role
<p style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">Nomura Overview:</span></strong></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm 43.55pt 0.3pt 0.0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:113%;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:113%;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:113%;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">, serving clients with creative solutions and considered thought leadership. For further information about Nomura, visit </span><a href="http://www.nomura.com"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:113%;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">www.nomura.com</span></a><u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:113%;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">.</span></u></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm 43.55pt 0.3pt 41.65pt;text-align:justify;line-height:113%;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0cm 43.55pt 0.3pt 0.0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:113%;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:113%;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">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. </span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm 43.55pt 0.3pt 41.65pt;text-align:justify;line-height:113%;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:113%;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"> </span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm 43.55pt 0.3pt 41.65pt;text-align:justify;line-height:113%;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0cm 43.55pt 0.3pt 0.0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:113%;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:113%;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">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. </span></p> <p style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"> </p> <p style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"> </span></strong></p> <p style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"> </p> <p style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">Business Overview:</span></strong></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">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 </span><a href="http://www.instinet.com"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext">www.instinet.com</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">.</span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">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. </span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm 43.55pt 0.3pt 0.0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:113%;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"> </p> <p style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black"> </span></strong></p> <p style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">What We Offer:</span></strong></p> <p style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black"> </span></strong></p> <ul style="list-style-type:square;margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">We support employee wellbeing by ensuring a sense of purpose and belonging. </span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">We offer a comprehensive range of wellbeing services which allows employees to get access to the assistance they need at any point in their wellbeing journey. </span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">Our bespoke benefits support employees and their family’s holistic wellbeing and are inclusive of diverse identities and family structures.</span></li> </ul> <p style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"> </p><p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><strong><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">Role & Responsibilities:</span></strong></p> <p style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">NXTConnect and Core Gateways are our flagship solutions that provides HFT/Hedge Fund Clients with low latency Direct Market Access (DMA) and connectivity to Algo Solutions.</span></p> <p style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">This is an <strong>individual contributor position </strong>within Connectivity IT team. The selected person would be part of<strong> </strong>Nomura Equity Execution Services – Connectivity IT team , reporting to the IT Lead in Mumbai and would working closely with global Connectivity IT team. </span></p> <p style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">We are looking for an exceptional Senior Java Technologist to join our development team building a high-performance, low-latency trading platform. </span></p> <p style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">In this role, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and optimizing mission-critical trading infrastructure that processes thousands of orders per second with microsecond-level latency requirements.</span></p> <p style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">You should be passionate about writing highly efficient, concurrent, and performance-critical code and have strong knowledge of Java internals, network programming, and low-latency system design.</span></p> <p style="line-height:115%;margin:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="text-decoration:underline"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif">Role & Responsibilities:</span></strong></span></p> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Develop large, complex Latency Sensitive Trading Product Suite. Optimize performance for low latency, high-throughput processing</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Build execution gateways and interfaces to multiple exchanges and dark pools. Implement fault-tolerant systems and robust recovery mechanisms. Conduct profiling, benchmarking, and tuning JVM/GC/networking performance</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Understand the existing business functions and participate in defining new solutions that meet business objectives.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Work with the product team, stakeholders and end-users for contribution towards requirement discovery and project prioritization.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Design and develop high-quality software deliveries within the committed deadlines.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Willing to work and contribute across entire SDLC – including dev, testing and support. Collaborate with various development, QA and support teams across different regions </span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-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. </span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Contribute towards establishing software delivery best practices. Collaborate on architecture, design decisions, and code reviews</span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Willing to own deliveries and work hands-on across all aspects of software delivery including development, testing, documentation and support.</span></li> </ul> <p style="line-height:115%;margin:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Mandatory Skill Set :</span></strong></p> <ul style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm" type="disc"> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Excellent technical skills in Strong Core Java</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">High performance messaging Multi-threading, memory management</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Networking (TCP/UDP)</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Performance optimization</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Gitlab CI – Continuous Integration</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Experience of Trading System Development and/or Complex Event Processing</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Deep understanding of multithreading, NIO, concurrency, lock-free data structures, and GC tuning</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Understanding of memory management, multi-threading - concurrency and synchronization.</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Experience with memory-mapped files, off-heap storage, or zero-copy I/O</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Very detail oriented with excellent analytical skills</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Excellent verbal and written communication skills </span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Highly proactive and takes initiative to identify problem areas and evolve solutions </span></li> </ul> <ul style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm" type="disc"> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Linux Exposure</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Shell Scripting</span></li> </ul> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Desired Skill Set :</span></strong></p> <ul style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm" type="disc"> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Investment Banking domain – good understanding of capital markets</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Knowledge of Equity Trading Markets – especially Compliance related issues and challenges</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Any exposure to exchange connectivity or FIX is highly desirable.</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Linux Exposure</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Shell Scripting</span></li> </ul> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"> </p>