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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 www.nomura.com.\nNomura 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.\nAt 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\nDivisional Overvie\n Wholesale Core Services Software Engineering is the engineering enablement division responsible for creating the platforms, SDKs, frameworks, tools, and standards that accelerate software delivery across the Wholesale business.\nThe division solves systemic engineering challenges by improving developer productivity, simplifying technology adoption, standardizing software engineering practices, and enabling teams to build secure, scalable, resilient, and high-quality services efficiently.\nBusiness Overview :\nThe division operates as an internal engineering platform and transformation function for the Wholesale organization. It provides reusable capabilities that allow product and engineering teams to focus on business outcomes rather than repeatedly solving foundational technology problems.\nIts core responsibilities include:\nBuilding internal developer platforms, golden paths, SDKs, frameworks, and reusable engineering components.\nImproving the full developer lifecycle, from project initiation and local development to testing, deployment, observability, and operations.\nEstablishing firm-wide software engineering practices, architecture patterns, coding standards, and delivery principles.\nSolving cross-cutting engineering problems related to scalability, reliability, security, automation, cloud adoption, and service integration.\nEnabling consistent engineering experiences across teams, technologies, and delivery environments.\nEmbedding quality, resilience, compliance, and operational excellence into the software development process.\nProviding self-service capabilities that reduce cognitive load, duplication, delivery friction, and time to market.\nDriving engineering modernization through automation, AI-assisted development, platform engineering, and developer experience initiatives.\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.\nKey Responsibilities\nDesign, Develop and Manage.Scalable applications using Java, Spring Boot, and Python to effectively elevate the overall software engineering experience.\nDistributed systems with advanced microservices patterns.\nApplications on Kubernetes clusters with comprehensive container orchestration.\nAI-powered features using Large Language Models (LLMs) and agentic AI workflows\nAutonomous AI agents with multi-step reasoning, tool usage, and decision-making capabilities\nMulti-agent systems with agent orchestration, communication protocols, and collaborative workflows\nImplement agentic workflows including planning, execution, reflection, and self-correction mechanisms\nOptimize RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) pipelines integrated with agentic systems\nVector databases for efficient similarity search and document retrieval\nEmbedding systems for text and data processing\nAI agents with external tools and APIs for enhanced functionality and automation.\n\nPractice Test-Driven Development (TDD) with comprehensive unit, integration, and contract testing\nApply DevOps and platform engineering principles including infrastructure as code, automated deployments, and monitoring.\nDesign and implement efficient data ingestion and processing pipelines.\nCollaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver intelligent software solutions.\nParticipate in code reviews and contribute to technical documentation.\nOptimize application performance and troubleshoot production issues in distributed environments.\nRequired Skills & Experience\nCore Expertise\nPython, Java and Spring Boot expertise with microservices development.\nStrong experience with Micro-service Architecture & Event-driven architecture with advanced microservices patterns.\nStrong in Distributed systems design and implementation experience.\nStrong knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases.\nStrong in Test-Driven Development (TDD) and various test integration frameworks.\nDevOps/Platform Engineering skills including CI/CD, infrastructure automation, and monitoring.\nKubernetes proficiency including deployment, scaling, and service mesh technologies.\nAI/ML Expertise\nAdvanced Python development skills, including experience with below (but not limited to): LangChain, LangGraph or similar LLM frameworks\nHugging Face transformers\nVector databases (Qdrant, Weaviate, or similar)\nEmbedding models (OpenAI, BERT, or similar)\n\nAgent Frameworks: LangGraph, AutoGen, or custom agent implementations\nMulti-Agent Systems: Agent communication, coordination, task delegation, and collaborative problem-solving\nAgentic Workflows: Planning agents, execution agents, reflection mechanisms, and self-correction loops\nAgent Memory Systems: Short-term and long-term memory, conversation history, and context management\nTool Integration: API calling, database queries, file operations, and external service interactions\nAgent Orchestration: Workflow management, state machines, and conditional execution paths\nCore RAG Components: Document chunking, embedding generation, vector similarity search, and LLM prompt engineering\nAdvanced Patterns: Multi-Query RAG, Hybrid retrieval (BM25 + Neural Search), Parent-Child chunking, and Query decomposition\nPipeline Optimization: Text splitters, embedding integration, vector store operations, query routing, and response synthesis\nEnhancement Techniques: Auto-merging chunks, semantic routing, context optimization, re-ranking mechanisms, and multi-vector retrieval\nAgentic RAG: Integration of RAG systems with autonomous agents for dynamic information retrieval and processing\nBelow skills have added advantage:\nHands-on experience with: Advanced agentic patterns: ReAct, Chain-of-Thought, Tree of Thoughts, and self-reflection.\nAgent monitoring and observability: Agent performance tracking, decision logging, and failure analysis.\nSemantic search implementations.\nKnowledge graphs and ontologies.\nStream processing for real-time AI applications.\nHuman-in-the-loop systems and agent supervision mechanisms.\n\nDistributed tracing\nMLOps practices and tools\nInfrastructure as Code (Terraform, Helm)\nWorking experience with AWS, or equivalent public cloud.\nWhat We Offer\nCompetitive salary and benefits package\nRemote work flexibility\nProfessional development opportunities\nAccess to cutting-edge AI technologies and resources\nCollaborative and innovative work environment\nHealth insurance\nAnnual performance bonus\nRegular team events and activities\nTraining in emerging AI technologies, agentic systems, and distributed systems patterns\nWe are committed to providing equal opportunities throughout employment including in the recruitment, training and development of employees. We prohibit discrimination in the workplace whether on grounds of gender, marital or domestic partnership status, pregnancy, carer’s responsibilities, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, race, color, national or ethnic origins, religious belief, disability or age.\n\n*Applying for this role does not amount to a job offer or create an obligation on Nomura to provide a job offer. 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