Lead Infrastructure Architect

Job Title: Lead Infrastructure Architect

Corporate Title: Executive Director

Location: New York

Location: Hybrid (2-3 Days a week) to New York City, NY. FULLY REMOTE IS NOT AN OPTION

*The pay range for this position at commencement of employment is expected to be between $245,00 and $300,000*

Company Overview

Nomura is a global financial services group with an integrated network spanning approximately 30 countries and regions. By connecting markets East & West, Nomura services the needs of individuals, institutions, corporates and governments through its three business divisions: Wealth Management, Investment Management, and Wholesale (Global Markets and Investment Banking). Founded in 1925, the firm is built on a tradition of disciplined entrepreneurship, serving clients with creative solutions and considered thought leadership. For further information about Nomura, visit www.nomura.com.

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Overview:

This role is for the Head of Core Infrastructure Architect in Nomura’s Group Infrastructure Services (GIS) function. This role is responsible for leading infrastructure strategy definition and identifying innovations that will form part of Nomura’s future state application platforms. The candidate must possess senior, industry-proven design and architecture experience with a focus on security across the infrastructure landscape and demonstrate a high-level of global management aptitude.

Role Description:

• Head of Core Infrastructure Architecture & Innovation for Group Infrastructure Services (GIS) reporting to the Group Head of Core Infrastructure
• Develop the vision of Nomura’s next-generation infrastructure for Nomura.
• Manage the relationship with Nomura IT Management team and the different business divisions, providing guidance/steer on the solutions available today to meet existing problems as well as working with the business leadership to find future-focused, secure & scalable solution for new requirements or problem areas.
• The scope of development and delivery will primarily be for Wholesale however all roles in GIS are group level roles and work should consider Retail and other business lines.
• Role will partner and directly collaborate with Core Infrastructure team leadership (Core Tools/Web/Database/Middleware/Private & Public Cloud, Network, Data Centre etc.)
• Role will partner with various application support communities and functions across the firm.
• Located in New York

Professional Skills & Experience Required:

• Proven track record in IT and Platform architecture disciplines across multiple verticals with a preference towards mid/large scale Financial Service Companies
• Proven ability in developing future state system design/architecture and appropriate business rationale supporting the value proposition.
• Proven track record of delivering Production live architecture and system designs which have a strong emphasis on security & cost optimization maximizing business value.
• Strong communication skills evidenced by the ability to convey complex technical and / or business concepts to business and non-technical stakeholders.
• Enthusiastic technology enabler who possesses a positive attitude and personable demeanor capable of creating strong inter-personal bridges with peers and clients
• Ability to effectively handle & manage aggressive delivery expectations in a high-touch, cutting-edge, regulated industry with calm and a flexible, can-do-it attitude.
• Ability to manage relationships within a global organization while leveraging a variety of organizational models including global functional.
• Ability to strike the right balance between “bleeding edge” vs “n-1” technology adoption taking into consideration practical aspects such as costs, implementation efforts, ROI etc.

Technical Knowledge Required:

• Broad background and knowledge base encompassing the vast landscape of modern Platform and Public Cloud services
• Deep understanding of modern development languages (Java, JavaScript Python & Go)
• Understanding of modern product development practices
• Extensive use of Infrastructure-as-Code (Iac) and Configuration Management Solutions as part of an overall GitOps delivery ecosystem (Ansible, Hashicorp Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Experience with designing, engineering and operationalizing various technologies as part of a comprehensive CI/CD toolchain (Gitlab)
• Technical expertise and strong, practical understanding of Container and Kubernetes technologies including on-premise, CNCF distributions (Rancher, EKS, Hashi Nomad) as well as Cloud specific distributions (AWS EKS, GCP GKE)
• Strong knowledge of Public Cloud services and solutions across the landscape of major CSPs with a particular focus on AWS.
• Experience with telemetry, observability, and monitoring ecosystems in support of Platform and associated application ecosystems (Prometheus, DataDog, Elastic, OpenTelemetry, Grafana)
• Strong knowledge of networking technologies such as network segmentation, firewall, load balancer
• Strong knowledge & experience of security best practices enabling “Security by Design” as a key architectural principle focused on aspects such as Zero Trust model, Encryption, MFA,
• Good understanding of storage platform covering Block, File, Object stores etc.
• Moderate knowledge of interfacing to security tooling such as Identity technologies.

*Base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, corporate and functional title and duties, job-related knowledge and advanced degrees, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including a sign-on bonus, restricted stock units, and discretionary awards in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits, such as vacation, sick time, and parental leave), dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment. If hired, employee will be in an “at-will position” and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors”.

Nomura is an Equal Opportunity Employer