Director Software Engineering Manager

Corporate Title: Executive Director

Department: Technology

Location: New York

The pay range for this position at commencement of employment is expected to be between $225,000 and $275,00//year*

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 soluti ons and considered thought leadership. For further information about Nomura, visit .

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Department overview:

The Information Technology department at Nomura is at the forefront of innovation, driving technology solutions that empower our business and enhance client experiences. We leverage cutting-edge technologies to develop and maintain robust systems and infrastructure, ensuring the security, reliability, and efficiency of our operations. Join our team and be part of a dynamic and collaborative environment that embraces technological advancements to deliver value and drive our digital transformation journey.

Role overview:

We're looking for an exceptional hands-on Software Engineering practitioner, innovator and leader to join our Software Engineering team in the New York tristate area. This team is responsible for helping application development teams develop software with speed, quality, security, scalability, observability and resilience. This team uses a maturity model to track modern software engineering metrics and drives continuous improvement by championing practices like agile methods, trunk-based development, TDD/ADD, DevSecOps, Cloud-Native, Observability-Driven Development, SRE etc. The leader in this role will help develop utilities, services and workshops which in turn help application teams adopt modern software engineering practices on firm standard platforms, improving team productivity and efficiency thus delivering value to business. This leadership role interfaces with application teams on the consuming side and with infrastructure teams on the providing side. In this dual role, this leader will optimize the developer experience by rationalizing the architecture and engineering practices, map those to the underlying platforms, measuring their effective use with metrics. The leader will guide the team to develop self-service APIs/CLIs for golden paths, Chat functionality, Messaging Channels, Integrations, and AI Agents for developers. In this multi-faceted role, the leader will serve as both a hands-on technical lead and an empathetic people manager. This role will guide a talented group of engineers from diverse backgrounds, helping them grow while driving team performance and fostering a culture of technical mentorship. This role will play a key role in designing and building robust frontend and backend systems that enhance our platform and automation capabilities. The leadership of this role will shape our technical vision and execution, in close collaboration with key stakeholders. From driving engineering best practices to improving code quality and scaling our systems, the impact of this role will be felt across the organization. This role will exercise their passion about software architecture and engineering, excited to lead by example, and ready to inspire a high-performing team.

Role Responsibilities:

• Mentor a team of software engineers (30%)
  • Mentor team performance by holding regular 1-1's, conducting performance reviews, setting objectives for each team member, and overseeing team's work
  • Provide leadership and coaching to develop team members
  • Provide technical mentorship and guidance to the team and top management, as well as provide input into cross-team projects and initiatives
  • Support established organizational objectives by developing goals and strategies.
  • Report on goals and represent the teams to senior leadership
  • Participate in hiring and recruiting initiatives

• Analyze, design, and develop software to improve the company's platform and expand its automation capabilities. (30%)
  • Develop and document modern software engineering practices with a reference implementation for the community to learn from and adopt.
  • Lead technical design and execution across product teams, serving as a hands-on tech lead while collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders
  • Build and extend existing features while prototyping and launching new capabilities with an emphasis on speed, quality, and innovation
  • Contribute to long-term technical planning, architectural decisions, and team-level execution strategies.
  • Design and implement scalable platform components including internal developer portals, CI/CD frameworks, service mesh integrations, and cloud automation tooling.
  • Build secure, self-service, cloud-native platform features to improve development velocity and infrastructure reliability.
  • Define patterns for microservices, APIs, containers, observability, secrets management, and zero-downtime deployments.
  • Provide technical direction for complex, multi-team initiatives across cloud infrastructure, platform services, and DevOps tooling.
  • Lead cross-functional architectural reviews and influence long-term platform strategy.
  • Partner with SREs, infrastructure, and application teams to ensure platform scalability, security, and resilience.
  • Drive reusable patterns and infrastructure-as-code modules for multi-cloud or hybrid deployments (e.g., using Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes).
  • Advocate for a high-performance developer experience by reducing friction in build/test/deploy pipelines.
  • Mentor engineers and promote platform adoption through documentation, hands-on support, and internal community building.
  • Collaborate on the enablement of LLM-based developer tooling, platform copilots, and GenAI-enhanced observability or automation features.
  • Evaluate and integrate GenAI frameworks (e.g., LangChain, OpenAI, LlamaIndex) into internal tools or knowledge management systems.
  • Work with internal product and security teams to ensure responsible use of GenAI within platform components.
• Participate in sprint planning, and partner to ensure the team is delivering quality technical output. (20%)
  • Lead the team in translating business requirements and R&D initiatives into technical requirements, including selection of appropriate technologies

• Participate in cross-team initiatives to drive engineering best-practices (20%)
  • Conduct code and architecture reviews across the platform
  • Monitor and contribute to improving code quality and decreasing time to deliver code, by staying involved in initiatives around on-call rotations, application performance monitoring, test automation, development environments, and/or continuous delivery pipelines
  • Maintain good relationships with internal and external stakeholders
  • Engage in client calls when necessary to provide technical insight and roadmap

Skills, experience, qualifications and knowledge required:

• You have a bachelor's degree (or equivalent experience) in Computer Science or related field
• You have 10+ years of progressive experience in architecture and software engineering
• You have at least 3+ years of experience managing a team of engineers
• You have experience growing, mentoring, and developing engineers with varying degrees of experience
• You are up-to-date with, and have a passion for software engineering best practices
• You have experience attracting and hiring engineering talent
• Technical experience:
  • You're familiar with Java, JavaScript, Python, Node.js and/or React.js
  • You've worked with and built high performance REST APIs, GraphQL
  • Hands on experience with Gitlab, Continuous Delivery and Observability.
  • Hands on experience with Docker, Kubernetes Terraform, and/or AWS
  • Hands on experience with xUnit, automated testing, reg. testing practices.
  • Hands on experience with release engg. automation, and SRE.
  • Hands on experience w/ GitHub Copilot, Agentic workflows etc.
  • You're familiar with applying AI to the rest of the systems dev. lifecycle.

*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

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