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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.\nBusiness Overview:\nThe 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.\nOur 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.\nAs 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.\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.\nPosition Specifications:\n\nCorporate Title\n\nVice President\n\nFunctional Title\n\nPrincipal Software Engineer\n\nExperience\n\n14+ Years\n\nQualification\n\nB Tech/ BE/ MCA\n\nRequisition No.\n\n15356\n\nRole & Responsibilities:\n\nTechnical Leadership & Project Delivery\nOwn the design, architecture, and execution of technology projects across Java and C++ codebases\nDrive end-to-end project delivery from requirements gathering through production deployment\nEstablish technical standards, best practices, and code quality benchmarks for the team\nConduct technical design reviews and provide architectural guidance on complex solutions\nMentorship & Team Development\nMentor junior and mid-level engineers, fostering their technical growth and career development\nConduct code reviews, pair programming sessions, and knowledge-sharing workshops\nBuild a culture of continuous learning and technical excellence within the team.\nIdentify and develop high-potential team members for advancement.\nApplication Modernization\nLead the modernization initiative to align applications with firm-wide technology standards and goals\nEvaluate and recommend technology upgrades, framework migrations, and architectural improvements\nBalance innovation with stability, ensuring backward compatibility where necessary\nDocument modernization roadmaps and communicate progress to stakeholders\nOperational Excellence\nEnsure applications meet SLAs for availability, performance, and data integrity\nTroubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues in production environments\nOptimize application performance and resource utilization\nMaintain comprehensive technical documentation and runbooks\nStakeholder Engagement & Representation\nRepresent the FX Options Technology team in global forums on modernization, evergreen initiatives, SDLC practices, and infrastructure programs\nCollaborate with cross-functional teams (Risk, Settlement, Regulatory, Finance, Collateral) to ensure seamless integration\nCommunicate technical roadmaps and capability updates to business stakeholders.\nDomain Expertise\nDevelop deep expertise in FX derivatives pricing models, risk calculation methodologies, and trade lifecycle workflows.\n\nSkill Set:\n\nMandatory\n\nDesired\n\nDomain\n\nFinancial Services & Banking Systems\nUnderstanding of core banking/financial services operations and workflows.\nKnowledge of transaction processing, settlement, and reconciliation concepts\nFamiliarity with financial data types, calculations, and precision requirements\nEnterprise Integration in Financial Services\nExperience integrating with multiple downstream systems and data flows.\nKnowledge of system resilience, disaster recovery, and high-availability requirements\nFamiliarity with financial data security, encryption, and access control requirements\nTrading/Market Systems Fundamentals\nBasic understanding of trading workflows and trade lifecycle. Understanding of market data concepts and pricing.\nGeneral understanding of financial regulatory frameworks and their impact on system design\n\nFinancial Markets & Derivatives\nUnderstanding of FX derivatives and options pricing. Knowledge of Greeks (Delta, Gamma, Vega, Theta, Rho) and risk metrics.\nFamiliarity with pricing models.\nUnderstanding of trade lifecycle and settlement processes\nTrading Systems & Operations\nExperience with trade capture systems.\nUnderstanding of real-time risk calculation and monitoring. Knowledge of EOD batch processing and reconciliation. Familiarity with regulatory reporting requirements.\nEnterprise Integration\nExperience integrating with downstream systems (Risk, Settlement, Confirmations, Regulatory, Finance)\nUnderstanding of message protocols and data standards\nKnowledge of system resilience and disaster recovery\n\nTechnical\n\nProficiency in Java\nSpring Framework, microservices architecture, REST APIs, Multithreading, concurrency, performance optimization, JVM tuning and memory management.\nSoftware Architecture & Design\nMicroservices architecture and distributed systems design.\nEvent-driven architecture and message-oriented middleware (Kafka, Solace etc)\nData Technologies\nSQL and relational databases\nReal-time data processing and streaming\nDevOps & Infrastructure\nCI/CD pipelines and automation Monitoring, logging, and observability tools. Container technologies & cloud.\nSoftware Engineering Practices\n\nC++ Development Experience\nModern C++ (C++11 and later)\nSTL, Boost, memory management, performance-critical systems\nLow-latency programming techniques.\nExperience with Debugger like GDB.\nContainer technologies & cloud\nExperience with low-latency systems and high-frequency trading platforms.\nExpertise in performance profiling and optimization tools\n\nNomura Leadership Behaviours:\n\nLeadership\nBehaviours\n\nDescription\n\nElement\n\nExploring Insights & Vision\n\nComprehensively analyse the nature\nof the problems we face and set our\nfocus toward the future vision\n\nGather Intelligence\nCreate a vision\nIdentify an issue\n\nMaking Strategic Decisions\n\nAnalyse options and feasibility to resolve issues, in making\njudgments and recommendations\n\nIdentify countermeasures\nAssess feasibility\nMake a judgment\n\nInspiring Entrepreneurship in People\n\nPromotes the vision and goals to others in such a way that inspires commitment and independent contributions\n\nInfluence\nInspire\nCommit\n\nElevating Organizational Capacity\n\nMaximize organizational productivity through leadership development and\nengagement\n\nHave an ownership in own development\nSupport other‘s growth\nEncourage organizational growth\n\nInclusion\n\nRespect diverse perspectives and\npromote psychological safety\nand the creation of a risk culture\n\nFoster psychologicalsafety\n\nEncourage the activeparticipation of all talent\n\nFoster a risk culture\n\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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