Real-Time Trading Production Engineer

Nomura; New York (NY); On-site; USD 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Nomura in New York is seeking a Production Services Specialist to monitor and support the company’s real-time trading environment, ensuring high availability and low latency for trading platforms and market data feeds.

The role requires strong problem-solving, Unix and networking knowledge, and the ability to work under pressure while collaborating with front office and development teams. Weekend coverage may be required.

Qualifications

• Ability to work well under pressure with a true sense of urgency and excellent teamwork skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication with the ability to act as a bridge between technology and front office teams.
• Understanding of common institutional trading practices, especially in conjunction with connectivity and electronic trading.
• Exposure to OMS and EMS platforms.
• Strong understanding of the Americas securities markets and structure, order lifecycle, FIX protocol and market data.
• Technically sound experience of Unix environments.
• Good understanding of Networking principles.
• 2+ years relevant experience

Responsibilities

• Monitor & support Nomura’s real-time trading environment – DMA, Crossing, Low latency Solutions, Algorithmic and Smart Order Routing Platforms.
• Support of low latency high frequency co-located trading environments, with specialised focus on FIX-to-native and native-to-native solutions.
• Daily health checks on critical systems, check automation and configurations of real-time monitoring solutions.
• Provide rapid response and resolution to incidents affecting the production trading systems.
• Liaise between clients, front-office and development teams for quick and effective escalation and resolution.
• Act as a production change gatekeeper, managing and deploying changes, including configuration and software release.
• Analyse logs and monitoring tools to identify and resolve system issues.
• Maintain and develop strong documentation (runbooks, troubleshooting guides, system configuration)
• Implementation and in-depth support of Exchange connectivity, bringing up new gateways and connections and market data feeds/protocols.

Skills

Under pressure

Communication skills

Trading practices

OMS/EMS

FIX & market data

Unix

Networking

2+ years exp

Tools

Grafana

Prometheus

Elastic

Job description

Nomura in New York is seeking a Production Services Specialist to monitor and support the company’s real-time trading environment, ensuring high availability and low latency for trading platforms and market data feeds.

The role requires strong problem-solving, Unix and networking knowledge, and the ability to work under pressure while collaborating with front office and development teams. Weekend coverage may be required.