Lead Database Developer
Other Support Jobs ⫽ Other
London
Competitive salary
Permanent, Full time
Job description
Corporate Level: Associate
Location: London (hybrid working)
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
Department overview
The Wholesale Data & Operation Technology is global team geographically spread across London, New York, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, India and Shanghai. The team is responsible for delivering strategic WDOT (Wholesale Data & Operation Technology) applications and platform, refactor / re-architect existing application as Cloud-Native. The team is responsible for mandatory and strategic project delivery, performing requirements gathering, design, development, testing, project management and governance. The team also provides a 3rd level escalation service to the support team.
Role description
Based in London, this position will be part of the WDOT - Transaction Services team. This role is to join this team in to provide database architect expertise as part of modernization initiative to move from Sybase to MS SQL and in future will also be required to be part of other development activities.
Responsibilities
- Strong database experience in developing highly scalable and fault tolerant applications.
- Database Architecture experience to drive replication/reporting infrastructure for huge databases exceeding 10 TB.
- Experience in building application using DevOps principles.
- Experienced with refactoring and reengineering existing platforms with advancement in technologies. Identify areas for improvement and innovation within the development process.
Skills, experience, qualifications and knowledge required:
Mandatory:
- Database Architecture and design experience
- Strong experience in developing highly scalable applications with expertise in high volume transactions.
- Relational Databases
- Working on large, complex, concurrent systems
- Experience in building application using DevOps principles.
- Experienced with refactoring and reengineering existing platforms with advancement in technologies. Identify areas for improvement and innovation within the development process.
- Good understanding of Design Patterns in OOPS
- Microsoft SQL server, Sybase along with Stored Procedure tuning knowledge
- Experience in Tools like Jira, Gitlab is expected.
- Jenkins, Ansible, CI/CD
Preferred：
- Database migration experience between Sybase and MS SQL.
- Knowledge in containerisation tools like Docker.
- Java, Spring/Spring Boot, Hibernate, JPA, Micro service Architecture, REST
- Candidate should be a quick learner. Should have demonstrated in the past quick learning capabilities.
- Strong listening, problem solving, analytical skills and excellent communication skills (both spoken and written English)
- Must be a team player with prior experience in working in a global development team.
- Self-motivated individual, quality and improvement focused.
Development experience of any of these technologies:
- AWS Cloud
- Kubernetes
- Docker
Diversity & Inclusion
Nomura is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all our employees.
We do not discriminate on the basis of age, disability, gender identity and gender expression, pregnancy and maternity, marriage and civil partnership, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.
If you require any assistance or reasonable adjustments due to a disability or long-term health condition, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Application url
This job is located on a third party website
Opens in new window - Please mention as the source of data when applying for this job