Principal Tech Lead, Global Equities Systems

Nomura Holdings, Inc.; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Nomura Holdings, Inc. in New York seeks a Principal Software Engineer/Tech Lead to own and drive delivery in the Prime Equity Finance space. You’ll lead a local team, shape architecture, and mentor engineers across Java/C++/C#/Python stacks.

Join a global technology organization delivering robust, scalable financial systems with strong emphasis on correctness, resilience, and collaboration with traders and operations.

Qualifications

• Provide leadership and functional expertise to the local NY Prime Equity Finance development team.
• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science / Engineering / Math / Physics or similar.
• 10-15 years demonstrable experience of hands-on development.
• Minimum 7+ years hands-on Java/C++/C#/Rust/Python development.
• Strong domain knowledge of Securities Lending, including trade lifecycle, locate.

Responsibilities

• Act as Technical Owner for a collection of existing and new components within the Prime Equity Finance space.
• Own and manage an agile development process for the local team.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to development team.
• Provide leadership to local team of developers while remaining hands-on.
• Produce robust, tested, modern components utilizing modern technologies and methodologies.
• Own development of Java applications, ensuring focus on correctness, resilience and quality.
• Take ownership of the full software development lifecycle, from initial discussions through to design, development, testing, deployment.
• Conduct code reviews and design reviews to ensure best practices and high standards are followed.
• Follow global development/change management standards to deliver quality enhancements/solutions in timely manner.
• Collaborate closely with traders and operations as part of a team to understand their needs and create technical solutions.
• Be a good team player to ensure a cohesive culture to effectively solve local/global business problem while building strategic platform for Global Equities.
• Ability to cope with dynamic front-office business needs, stakeholder communication and to deal with changing priorities both from business and technology.
• Ability to communicate and act professionally with IT staff and business clients whilst under strict deadlines.
• Be part of a global team with members in Tokyo, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Mumbai, London, and New York, contributing to collective goals and supporting colleagues.
• Collaborate on projects across other technology, business, client and vendor teams.
• Ability to work with global teams in matrix reporting environment with strong interpersonal skills.
• Document discussions / solutions / processes and track development and issues using Confluence and Jira.
• Share ideas/observations/improvements with the global team.
• Primary support is covered by a separate Production Services team; however, at times you may need to assist Production Services and traders to resolve issues and to document postmortems and to own follow ups.
• Help ensure maximum uptime of systems and minimize impact to businesses when issues occur.

Skills

Java

C++

C#

Rust

Python

Leadership

Securities Lending domain

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in CS/Engineering/Math/Physics

Tools

Confluence

Jira

Job description

Nomura Holdings, Inc. in New York seeks a Principal Software Engineer/Tech Lead to own and drive delivery in the Prime Equity Finance space. You’ll lead a local team, shape architecture, and mentor engineers across Java/C++/C#/Python stacks.

Join a global technology organization delivering robust, scalable financial systems with strong emphasis on correctness, resilience, and collaboration with traders and operations.