Senior Java Tech Lead, Data Lake & AI Platform

Nomura Holdings, Inc.; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Nomura Holdings, Inc. is seeking a Java Technical Software Engineering Lead – Vice President to lead data acquisition within the AI Labs/Data Lake platform. The role blends hands-on software engineering with architectural leadership in Wholesale Data Technology, London (Hybrid).

The candidate will shape architecture, implement scalable data solutions, and mentor junior engineers, ensuring data quality and secure, reliable ingestion for global markets operations.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering enterprise-level Java solutions.
• Technical leader capable of hands-on coding and guiding a small team.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end design, development, and maintenance of the Data Lake platform, focusing on data ingestion and acquisition workflows.
• Collaborate with business lines to translate requirements into technical solutions.
• Build data quality tooling and frameworks to ensure data integrity across the pipeline.
• Architect and implement data validation mechanisms and automated quality monitoring.
• Drive initiatives to keep data infrastructure at the forefront of performance, reliability, and security.
• Mentor junior engineers and establish architectural standards for development teams.
• Evaluate new technologies and propose improvements to data acquisition capabilities.

Skills

Strong communication

Enterprise-scale distributed systems

Java ecosystem (Spring, Hibernate)

RESTful API design

AWS / cloud platforms

Market data processing workflows

Mentoring juniors

Technical leadership

GitLab / GitStash / gitflow

Jenkins / CI-CD / Ansible

Tools

GitLab

GitStash

Jenkins

Ansible

CI/CD tooling

AWS

Job description

Nomura Holdings, Inc. is seeking a Java Technical Software Engineering Lead – Vice President to lead data acquisition within the AI Labs/Data Lake platform. The role blends hands-on software engineering with architectural leadership in Wholesale Data Technology, London (Hybrid).

The candidate will shape architecture, implement scalable data solutions, and mentor junior engineers, ensuring data quality and secure, reliable ingestion for global markets operations.