Sr. Infrastructure Operations & Services

Overview:

Nomura is a global financial services group with an integrated network spanning approximately 30 countries and regions. By connecting markets East & West, Nomura services the needs of individuals, institutions, corporates and governments through its three business divisions: Wealth Management, Investment 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

Nomura 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.

Role Overview:

Nomura is looking for a Technical Business Analyst for the Core Infra Strategy workstream.

In this role, you will be part of the Core Infrastructure strategy team responsible for shaping, evidencing, and articulating investment and transformation decisions across the full technology estate. You will turn complex infrastructure data into the analysis, models, and executive-ready business cases that underpin multi-million-pound strategy, migration, and modernisation decisions. You will collaborate across multiple cross-functional workstreams.

The role is based out of Mumbai, India and will be part of the Nomura Service India Pvt Ltd.

Required Experience & Skills

• Essential Skills & Experience

• 5 - 8 years in a Technical BA / analyst role, ideally within infrastructure, cloud, or platform environments.
• Demonstrable experience formulating business cases for technology investment or transformation - cost modelling, benefits quantification, and options analysis.
• Broad working knowledge across core infrastructure domains: on-premise compute and virtualisation, public cloud (AWS), networking, data centres, storage, web, middleware and database platforms - enough to engage credibly with engineering teams and interrogate their data.
• Advanced Excel - able to build and maintain complex models from disparate source data
• PowerPoint - able to produce executive-grade decks that are concise, visually clear, and structured for a senior audience.
• Power BI / Grafana - building dashboards and reporting views over infrastructure and cost data.
• Generative AI - practical use of Gen AI tools to accelerate analysis, structure strategy options, draft and iterate on materials, and synthesise complex inputs.
• Excellent written communication - able to hold a consistent narrative and tighten wording iteratively across a document.

• Desirable

• Exposure to public cloud migration (AWS/Azure) and SaaS transition strategies.
• Financial-services / regulated-environment experience
• Experience supporting data-centre exit, consolidation, or hardware-refresh programmes.
• SQL or a scripting language (Python / PowerShell) for data manipulation.

• Behaviours & Competencies

• Analytically rigorous - instinctively reconciles figures and challenges assumptions before they reach a slide.
• Clear communicator - distils complexity into simple, accurate narratives.
• Self-starter - comfortable operating with ambiguity and chasing clarity across a federated stakeholder model.
• Detail-oriented without losing the strategic thread

Key Responsibilities and Duties:

• Business case formulation -
• Build robust, defensible business cases for infrastructure strategy initiatives (cloud migration, data-centre consolidation, capacity optimisation, platform modernisation), including cost/benefit modelling, sensitivity analysis, and a clear assumption log behind every headline number.
• With Cost effectiveness and ROI are key considerations, translate business needs into detailed functional and technical specifications factoring in available infra platforms, tools & tech stack within the firm.
• Perform gap analysis between current and desired states
• Create comprehensive documentation including business requirements documents (BRDs), functional requirements documents (FRDs), and user stories
• Data analysis & modelling - Analyse infrastructure data across compute, network, storage, and database estates - utilisation, capacity, cost, and inventory - to quantify opportunities and track delivery against targets.
• Requirements & disposition mapping - Elicit, document, and structure requirements across infrastructure and application teams; maintain traceability from analysis through to decision and action.
• Executive reporting - Produce concise, visually compelling materials for senior stakeholders (CCO / COO / GCIO level): decision papers, RAG status narratives, and strategy decks that translate technical detail into a crisp, defensible story.
• Stakeholder coordination - Act as the analytical bridge between infrastructure engineering, application owners, finance, risk/TPRM, and programme leadership; surface dependencies, chase ownership, and keep figures reconciled across sources.
• Governance - Support change-control, milestone tracking, and reconciliation of bottom-up vs top-down figures so reporting withstands senior scrutiny
• Cross-Workstream collaboration - Collaborate & partner across functions in the IT infrastructure & IT business Units to define /design technical solutions focussing on the based on the most optimal path to solution delivery

Nomura Leadership Behaviours

• Explore Insights & Vision: Identify the underlying causes of problems faced by you or your team and define a clear vision and direction for the future.
• Making Strategic Decisions: Evaluate all the options for resolving the problems and effectively prioritize actions or recommendations.
• Inspire Entrepreneurship in People: Inspire team members through effective communication of ideas and motivate them to actively enhance productivity.
• Elevate Organizational Capability: Engage proactively in professional development and enhance team productivity through the promotion of knowledge sharing.
• Inclusion: Respect DEI, foster a culture of inclusion and psychological safety in the workplace and cultivate a "Risk Culture" (Challenge, Escalate and Respect).

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Nomura is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to providing equal opportunities throughout employment including in the recruitment, training and development of employees (including promotion, transfers, assignments and beliefs). We prohibit discrimination in the workplace whether on grounds of gender, marital or domestic partnership status, pregnancy, career’s responsibilities, sexual orientation, gender identity, race, color, national or ethnic origins, religious belief, disability or age. Our objective is to attract job applications and applications for development from the best possible candidates and to retain the best people.