2 hours ago
London, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, development, maintenance, and architectural evolution of an enterprise Data Lake platform and its data acquisition workflows.
- Translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions in collaboration with business lines and cross-functional teams.
- Build data-quality tooling, validation mechanisms, automated monitoring, remediation processes, profiling capabilities, anomaly detection, and quality metrics reporting.
- Integrate and optimize third-party market-data feeds, including normalization and transformation across acquisition pipelines.
- Drive technical initiatives addressing performance, reliability, security, governance, documentation, and industry best practices.
- Mentor junior engineers, lead a small technical team, establish architectural standards, and guide technical design decisions.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend improvements to data acquisition capabilities and platform performance.
Requirements
- Extensive professional Java software development experience delivering enterprise-level solutions.
- Proven ability to act as a hands-on technical leader and execute while leading a small technical team.
- Advanced proficiency with Java, Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Hibernate, JPA, microservices architecture patterns, and RESTful API design and implementation.
- Experience architecting and developing highly scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems for mission-critical environments.
- Experience with Amazon Web Services or an alternative cloud platform.
- Knowledge of market-data processing workflows for asset classes such as fixed income, equities, and foreign exchange.
- Hands-on experience integrating and optimizing market-data feeds from multiple third-party vendor APIs, including data normalization and transformation.
- Demonstrated experience mentoring and developing junior engineers and transferring technical knowledge within development teams.
- Strong verbal and written communication, documentation, presentation, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Experience with GitLab or GitStash, gitflow, Jenkins, Ansible, and CI/CD.
- Desirable experience with KDB, Python, fixed-income products, or investment banking.
Benefits
- Permanent employment in London with a hybrid work arrangement.
- The employer can consider overseas applicants requiring a UK Tier 2 Skilled Worker visa where the role qualifies as a genuine vacancy for a qualified worker.
- Equal-opportunity workplace with diversity, inclusion, psychological safety, and reasonable-adjustment support.
About Nomura
Nomura is a financial services group with an integrated global network. 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.