Company overview

Nomura is a global financial services group with an integrated network spanning over 30 countries and regions. By connecting markets East & West, Nomura services the needs of individuals, institutions, corporates and governments through its three business divisions: Retail, Wholesale (Global Markets and Investment Banking), and Investment Management. 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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Function Overview

• International Wealth Management (IWM) in Nomura has been expanding its business. Over last years – several enhancements are ongoing on continuous basis including expanding newer set of applications in IWM application landscape
• This job role – will report head of IWM production support in Singapore
• This job would entail working in shifts
• Good knowledge of Avaloq Banking System is a must

Job Responsibilities

• Primary responsibility of the candidate will be to provide L1/L2 technical support for all applications used by wealth management technology including Avaloq, Marginman and many others
• Manage day to day production issues including daily health checks of all applications and processes
• Working closely with various stake holders like business users, development staffs and infrastructure teams. Prioritize, mitigate or resolve issues and/or minimize outages
• Responsible for availability, incident, problem and capacity management for all applications in scope
• Maintain high performance and availability of production environment including ensuing batch monitoring during late shifts
• Monitor critical components of the system and troubleshoot problem areas
• Liaise with users to ensure production incidents are resolved on a timely basis and that remedial actions are taken. Manage and keep track of production issues, follow up incident post mortem to mitigate root cause
• Work closely with regional IT teams (cross IT BUs) to maintain effective up-stream & down-stream
• Processing
• Implement continuous process improvements including but not limited to Policies and procedures and production monitoring
• Participate in business continuity planning and exercises
• Participate/support in regional and/or global projects

Job Requirements

• University graduate with minimum 7-8 years of application support experience in application support role in banking environment/ financial institution
• ITIL v3 or similar qualifications with Java, Oracle, Unix/Linux, Sybase technologies
• Demonstrate basic financial understanding in FX/MM/Equity/Derivatives and associated front to back operational workflow
• Able to work with sense of urgency under multiple deadlines, can organize and deliver with minimal supervision
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills; Willing to learn and able to adapt to different technologies
• Self-motivated, responsible and reliable team player

Essential technical skills:

• Experienced in both banking / financial services supporting large applications
• 5-6 years of hand on experience in Unix/Linux, Oracle/Sybase, Java technologies, Avaloq and Marginman
• > 5 years’ experience in production support including managing incident & problem management
• Experienced in supporting Wealth Management system/Order Management system/ Execution Management System
• Experience in disaster recovery planning and test execution

Preferred:

• Completed Avaloq Certification training
• Knowledge of market data and financial models will be advantage
• Practical understanding of FIX protocol
• Understanding on cloud operations, micro services, python/perl and excel skill
• Communicates well & across all levels.

Diversity Statement

Nomura is committed to an employment policy of equal opportunities, and is fundamentally opposed to any less favourable treatment accorded to existing or potential members of staff on the grounds of race, creed, colour, nationality, disability, marital status, pregnancy, gender or sexual orientation.

DISCLAIMER: This Job Description is for reference only, and whilst this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, it is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, skills, efforts, requirements or working conditions associated with the job. The management reserves the right to revise the job and may, at his or her discretion, assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.

Nomura is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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