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By connecting markets East & West, Nomura services the needs of individuals, institutions, corporates and governments through its three business divisions: Retail, Asset Management, and Wholesale (Global Markets and Investment 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.\nNomura Services India, (Powai) supports Nomura’s businesses around the world. Powai’ s world class capabilities in trading support, research, information technology, financial control, operations, risk management and legal support have played a key role in facilitating Nomura’s global operations and are an integral part of Nomura’s global expansion plans. The Powai operation is a critical part of the platform to support the growth of Nomura’s global business.\nBusiness Overview\nThrough 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.\nGlobal 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 65markets 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 www.instinet.com.\nGES Technology India team is an integral part of the global team, which is spread across US, UK, HK, Japan and India, owns and delivers multiple product stacks.\nGES India works in partnership with the regions to deliver technology solutions for our clients and for Nomura global execution business.\nWhat We Offer:\nWe support employee wellbeing by ensuring a sense of purpose and belonging. \nWe 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. \nOur bespoke benefits support employees and their family’s holistic wellbeing and are inclusive of diverse identities and family structures.\nRole Overview:\nThe candidate will work on Nomura Instinet’s proprietary sales and trading platform products, that address our client’s diverse range of trading needs and goals. The platform trades a significant portion of client order flow per day globally and represents a business-critical system for the firm. We provide our users typically traders an integrated global markets experience supporting multiple asset classes across regions.\nThe team works closely with algo strategy teams, and integrates with multiple UX interfaces, providing users with a well-integrated trading experience. The role requires a strong technologist with deep experience in mission critical and highly evolving systems.This is a hands-on individual contributor role along with opportunities to manage multiple module deliveries independently and level up the product overall.\nThe candidate will engage with global / regional stakeholders and deliver on multi-month product delivery milestones. The candidate also engage business analysts, delivery leads, and business users and ensuring, incremental product deliveries and met, using agile methodologies.\nRole & Responsibilities:\nDeliver new features, enhancements and bug fixes to our trading platform that has low latency and high throughout processing mandates.\nParticipate in the full project life cycle including technical analysis, design, data analysis and mapping, development and testing\nUnderstand the existing business functions and participate in defining new solutions that meet business objectives.\nLiaise with the business and development teams with regards to priorities and progress of various tasks and projects.\nEnsure adherence to functional architecture strategy and compliance to company development standards.\nIf necessary, help manage projects for the implementation of new systems or system upgrades.\nWilling to work and contribute across entire SDLC - including dev, testing and support. Collaborate with various development, QA and support teams across different regions \nL2 & 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. \nContribute towards establishing software delivery best practices. 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