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
Full description
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 TitleVice PresidentFunctional TitlePrincipal Software EngineerExperience14+ YearsQualificationB Tech/ BE/ MCARequisition 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
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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: MandatoryDesiredDomainFinancial 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
TechnicalProficiency 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 PracticesC++ 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
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).