Senior Java Tech Lead — Data Lake & AI Platform

Nomura; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Nomura is seeking a Lead Java Software Engineer to head data acquisition within the AI Labs/Data Lake team in London. You will shape architecture, drive data ingestion improvements, and mentor junior engineers while delivering robust, scalable data solutions for analytics and operations.

You will collaborate across divisions, own data validation and quality monitoring, and advance platform security, performance, and reliability in a hybrid London environment.

Qualifications

• Experienced Java Software Engineer with extensive professional development experience.
• Technical leader with ability to execute and lead a small technical team.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end design, development, and maintenance of the Data Lake platform.
• Collaborate with business lines to translate requirements into technical solutions.
• Build data quality tooling and frameworks for data integrity and reliability.

Skills

Java

Spring Framework

Spring Boot

Hibernate

JPA

Microservices

RESTful API design

AWS

GitLab/GitStash

GitFlow

Jenkins

Ansible

CI/CD

Tools

GitLab

GitStash

Jenkins

Ansible

Job description

Nomura is seeking a Lead Java Software Engineer to head data acquisition within the AI Labs/Data Lake team in London. You will shape architecture, drive data ingestion improvements, and mentor junior engineers while delivering robust, scalable data solutions for analytics and operations.

You will collaborate across divisions, own data validation and quality monitoring, and advance platform security, performance, and reliability in a hybrid London environment.