Algo Developer at Nomura, London, 6-12 Months, £Contract Rate

Company overview

Nomura is a financial services group with an integrated global network. By connecting markets East & West, we service the needs of individuals, institutions, corporates and governments through our four business divisions: Wealth Management, Investment Management, Wholesale (Global Markets and Investment Banking) and Banking.

Driven by the insights of some 28,000 people worldwide, we put our clients at the center of everything we do, delivering unparalleled access to, from and within Asia. For further information about Nomura, visit www.nomura.com

Department Overview:

As the Global Execution Services technology division for Nomura’s Wholesale IT, the group provides brokerage services solutions to clients in over 65 markets around the world.  Through its advanced suite of electronic trading strategies, experienced high-touch trading group, top-ranked Commission Management services, award winning desktop trading platform, and unparalleled access to insightful analytics, content and unique liquidity, Nomura helps institutions lower overall trading costs and ultimately improve investment performance.

Role Description:

Nomura’s proprietary algorithmic trading systems that address our client’s diverse range of trading styles and goals. The platform trades a significant portion of client order flow per day globally and represents a business critical system for the firm.  We provide a core set of global, event-driven, multi asset trading strategies and deploy a library of regularly updated component tactics and extensive controls to refine behavior.  Clients can easily tailor strategies to meet specific objectives.

The team works closely with the Quants to bring new strategies to the market and to constantly evolve the portfolio of the algorithmic offerings of the firm.  The role requires an excellent technologist with deep experience in mission critical and highly evolving systems.

Key objectives critical to success:

As a key member of the Global Execution Services algo team the candidate will:

• Deliver new features, enhancements and bug fixes to our algo trading platform
• Participate in the full project life cycle including technical analysis, design, data analysis and mapping, development and testing.
• Occasionally provide level 2 and 3 support for front-office applications
• Ensure adherence to functional architecture strategy and compliance to company development standards.
• Liaise with the business and development teams with regards to priorities and progress of various tasks and projects.
• If necessary, help manage projects for the implementation of new systems or system upgrades.

Skills, experience, qualifications and knowledge required:

Essential:

• Experience in design and development of algorithmic trading system for equity markets.
• Hands on experience coding and developing algorithmic trading systems in Java
• Ability to exhibit high level of professionalism in team oriented environment.
• Team player that is able to work with people across different departments, countries and regions.
• Demonstrates self-direction and initiative in achieving objectives
• Strong self-management skills with ability to prioritize and execute
• Bachelor or Master degree in computer science, engineering or related disciplines

Preferred:

• Experience in CI/CD automation
• Exposure to distributed systems and message oriented architecture
• Understanding and ideally hands on experience working with event driven systems
• Experience working with financial markets and understanding of local market characteristics
• Good knowledge of networks, TCP/IP and enterprise messaging solutions