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Job Title: Lead Developer

Job Code: 1223398
Skill Category: IT\Technology
Location: Singapore Client Job Ref:

Job Type: Permanent
Post Start Date: 4 Oct 2022
Post End Date:

Job Summary:

Company overview

Nomura is a global financial services group with an integrated network spanning over 30 countries and regions. By connecting markets East & West, Nomura services the needs of individuals, institutions, corporates and governments through its three business divisions: Retail, Wholesale (Global Markets and Investment Banking), and Investment Management. 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 .

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Team Overview:

The FX Options Technology team is geographically spread across Nomura's offices worldwide and is an important and expanding business and technology space. The team supports technology solutions for the FX Options business. This role is a Change The Bank / Developer technical role. There are development resources located in various offices globally

Role Description:

This role sits within the FX Options team who are responsible for developing our front office Fixed Income applications.

The platform is an in-house developed system and contains a series of processes tailored for the businesses requirements.

This role requires the individual to :

• Work in a high pressured environment across geographical boundaries and work with numerous teams across technology to ensure that our production systems are developed and maintained to a high standard.
• Build strong trust-based relationships with other technology groups in vaious offices in the region and globally who we work with and depend on for global and follow the sun cover.
• Build strong trust-based relationships with the business and gain a good understanding of their processes.

Job Requirements:

Essential:

• Strong Java, this is essential.
• Junit and mock frameworks are required.
• Spring framework knowledge is required.
• Worked in a front office trader facing environment working at times with senior trading and sales.
• Experience working with supporting TIBCO EMS using JMS.
• FX Options or similar product knowledge.
• SQL / Database skills. It's important for the successful candidate to be able to provide quality database skills for an application which is very Database dependent / intensive. Detemining slow queries and remediation.
• Experience of work on FIX (Quickfix/j) based appications and services.
• Strong communication and team working and leading capabilities.
• Self starter who will be able to quickly learn.
• Flexibility in the working hours is essential. This is a role closely aligned to trading desks and handing escalated support and it at times will require to work in various time slots, including early morning and late nights, based on the needs of business
• Shell Scripting skills, bash / perl / python.
• Good Linux / Unix shell tool experience skills
• 5+ year of relevant inducstry experience preferably in FX/ FX Options technology

Desirable (not essential) :

• Sybase ASE 16.0 and Rep Server experience
• KDB
• SOLACE
• Excel add-ins and general Excel functionality
• .NET

The ideal candidate will be a hard working, proactive individual with strong interpersonal and communication skills who has a desire to drive continuous improvement and the ability to manage multiple tasks at any given time.

Diversity Statement

Nomura is committed to an employment policy of equal opportunities, and is fundamentally opposed to any less favourable treatment accorded to existing or potential members of staff on the grounds of race, creed, colour, nationality, disability, marital status, pregnancy, gender or sexual orientation. DISCLAIMER: This is for reference only, and whilst this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, it is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, skills, efforts, requirements or working conditions associated with the job. The management reserves the right to revise the job and may, at his or her discretion, assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.

Nomura is an Equal Opportunity Employer