Sr. Principal Software Engineer

Divisional Overview:

Global Markets Technology builds and maintains software solutions used by Global Markets Front and Middle office businesses. The business is spread across EMEA, US, Japan, AEJ, and emerging Markets like India, Brazil, and China. It deals in wide range of products including FX, Rates, Credit, Securitized Products, Equities, Futures & Options, FI/EQ Derivatives, and Prime Services including financing.

Business Overview:

The Global FX Options Technology team is a critical component of Nomura's Fixed Income and Currencies division, providing enterprise-grade technology solutions for the FX Options Sales, Trading, and Structuring desks. The team develops and maintains a comprehensive suite of applications spanning the entire FX derivatives lifecycle-from pricing and real-time risk calculation through trade capture, lifecycle management, EOD batch processing, and downstream reporting.

Our applications serve multiple stakeholder groups including traders, sales professionals, structurers, market operations, risk management, product control, finance, settlement, regulatory, and collateral teams. The technology stack supports complex derivative pricing models, intraday risk analytics, regulatory reporting requirements, and integration with firm-wide systems including the Risk platform, Settlement infrastructure, Confirmation systems, Regulatory repositories, Finance ledgers, and Collateral management systems.

As a VP Individual Contributor, you will take technical ownership of this critical technology domain, driving modernization initiatives aligned with firm-wide standards while maintaining operational excellence and supporting business growth.

What We Offer:

• We support employee wellbeing by ensuring a sense of purpose and belonging.
• 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.
• Our bespoke benefits support employees and their family’s holistic wellbeing and are inclusive of diverse identities and family structures.

Position Specifications:

Corporate Title

Vice President

Functional Title

Principal Software Engineer

Experience

14+ Years

Qualification

B Tech/ BE/ MCA

Requisition No.

15356

Role & Responsibilities:

Technical Leadership & Project Delivery

• Own the design, architecture, and execution of technology projects across Java and C++ codebases
• Drive end-to-end project delivery from requirements gathering through production deployment
• Establish technical standards, best practices, and code quality benchmarks for the team
• Conduct technical design reviews and provide architectural guidance on complex solutions

Mentorship & Team Development

• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers, fostering their technical growth and career development
• Conduct code reviews, pair programming sessions, and knowledge-sharing workshops
• Build a culture of continuous learning and technical excellence within the team.
• Identify and develop high-potential team members for advancement.

Application Modernization

• Lead the modernization initiative to align applications with firm-wide technology standards and goals
• Evaluate and recommend technology upgrades, framework migrations, and architectural improvements
• Balance innovation with stability, ensuring backward compatibility where necessary
• Document modernization roadmaps and communicate progress to stakeholders

Operational Excellence

• Ensure applications meet SLAs for availability, performance, and data integrity
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues in production environments
• Optimize application performance and resource utilization
• Maintain comprehensive technical documentation and runbooks

Stakeholder Engagement & Representation

• Represent the FX Options Technology team in global forums on modernization, evergreen initiatives, SDLC practices, and infrastructure programs
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Risk, Settlement, Regulatory, Finance, Collateral) to ensure seamless integration
• Communicate technical roadmaps and capability updates to business stakeholders.

Domain Expertise

• Develop deep expertise in FX derivatives pricing models, risk calculation methodologies, and trade lifecycle workflows.

Skill Set:

Mandatory

Desired

Domain

Financial Services & Banking Systems

Understanding of core banking/financial services operations and workflows.

Knowledge of transaction processing, settlement, and reconciliation concepts

Familiarity with financial data types, calculations, and precision requirements

Enterprise Integration in Financial Services

Experience integrating with multiple downstream systems and data flows.

Knowledge of system resilience, disaster recovery, and high-availability requirements

Familiarity with financial data security, encryption, and access control requirements

Trading/Market Systems Fundamentals

Basic understanding of trading workflows and trade lifecycle. Understanding of market data concepts and pricing.

General understanding of financial regulatory frameworks and their impact on system design

Financial Markets & Derivatives

Understanding of FX derivatives and options pricing. Knowledge of Greeks (Delta, Gamma, Vega, Theta, Rho) and risk metrics.

Familiarity with pricing models.

Understanding of trade lifecycle and settlement processes

Trading Systems & Operations

Experience with trade capture systems.

Understanding of real-time risk calculation and monitoring. Knowledge of EOD batch processing and reconciliation. Familiarity with regulatory reporting requirements.

Enterprise Integration

Experience integrating with downstream systems (Risk, Settlement, Confirmations, Regulatory, Finance)

Understanding of message protocols and data standards

Knowledge of system resilience and disaster recovery

Technical

Proficiency in Java

Spring Framework, microservices architecture, REST APIs, Multithreading, concurrency, performance optimization, JVM tuning and memory management.

Software Architecture & Design

Microservices architecture and distributed systems design.

Event-driven architecture and message-oriented middleware (Kafka, Solace etc)

Data Technologies

SQL and relational databases

Real-time data processing and streaming

DevOps & Infrastructure

CI/CD pipelines and automation Monitoring, logging, and observability tools. Container technologies & cloud.

Software Engineering Practices

C++ Development Experience

Modern C++ (C++11 and later)

STL, Boost, memory management, performance-critical systems

Low-latency programming techniques.

Experience with Debugger like GDB.

Container technologies & cloud

Experience with low-latency systems and high-frequency trading platforms.

Expertise in performance profiling and optimization tools

Nomura Leadership Behaviours:

Leadership

Behaviours

Description

Element

Exploring Insights & Vision

Comprehensively analyse the nature

of the problems we face and set our

focus toward the future vision

• Gather Intelligence
• Create a vision
• Identify an issue

Making Strategic Decisions

Analyse options and feasibility to resolve issues, in making

judgments and recommendations

• Identify countermeasures
• Assess feasibility
• Make a judgment

Inspiring Entrepreneurship in People

Promotes the vision and goals to others in such a way that inspires commitment and independent contributions

• Influence
• Inspire
• Commit

Elevating Organizational Capacity

Maximize organizational productivity through leadership development and

engagement

• Have an ownership in own development
• Support other‘s growth
• Encourage organizational growth

Inclusion

Respect diverse perspectives and

promote psychological safety

and the creation of a risk culture

• Foster psychological

  safety

• Encourage the active

  participation of all talent

• Foster a risk culture

We 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.

*Applying for this role does not amount to a job offer or create an obligation on Nomura to provide a job offer. The expression "Nomura" refers to Nomura Services India Private Limited together with its affiliates.

*The benefits are subject to change and will be in accordance with Company’s policies as may be applicable from time to time).