Director of Architecture: Senior Principal Architect

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

Nomura Services, India supports the group's global businesses. With world-class capabilities in trading support, research, information technology, financial control, operations, risk management and legal support, the firm plays a key role in facilitating the group's global operations across four international regions.

At Nomura, creating an inclusive workplace is a priority. Our approach to inclusion encompasses a variety of initiatives, including sensitization campaigns, implementing conducive policies & programs, providing infrastructure support and engaging in community events. Over time, we have made meaningful progress in these areas, and this commitment has been well-recognized across the industry. We are proud recipients of the prestigious Top 10 Employers award by the India Workplace Equality Index (IWEI), IWEI Gold Employer of Choice awards, India CSR Leadership Award 2024 for Holistic Village Development Program and the YUVA Unstoppable Changemaker Awards.

Corporate & Department Overview

Nomura aspires to create a better world by harnessing the power of financial markets. We are a financial services group with an integrated global network, servicing our clients for over 100 years across over 30 countries. 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

Nomura puts clients at the centre of everything we do and focuses on integrated global access. We have a long history in Asia and we drive disciplined entrepreneurship.

Nomura pursues a strategy of delivering comprehensive services through a hybrid approach that combines people and digital capabilities. To provide truly optimal services for each individual client, we are proactively building a transformational IT capability. By leveraging technology and the latest trends, we deliver personal and appropriate end-to-end customer experiences.

Nomura is building its Architecture capability to help the business set direction and strategy by providing an enterprise horizontal view of technology; and reducing risk through Group unification of standards.

To deliver against this vision, we are looking for a collaborative leader with the spirit to make change happen and companion bold ideas that will continue to transform the experiences of our customers.

Role Purpose & Crucial Imperatives

Nomura have invested significantly in ServiceNow as a strategic platform for nearly a decade and have built a world-class ServiceNow instance utilising both out of the box capabilities and innovating well beyond the standard functionality.

Nomura is also undergoing significant expansion across the Nomura Group in multiple lines of business and ServiceNow capabilities.

The Senior Principal Architect for ServiceNow will work with Nomura's IT and Architecture leadership to help define the ServiceNow platform vision and strategy whilst ensuring alignment to Nomura's business strategy.

They will design overarching system blueprints, manage application portfolios, and ensure that platform workflows, data models, and integrations scale safely and efficiently across the entire enterprise.

They will serve as the technical authority for the ServiceNow platform, designing scalable architectures, governing platform integrity, and ensuring smooth integrations across modules like ITSM, ITOM, APM and HRSD to prevent technical debt.

Most immediately, the Senior Principal Architect for ServiceNow will be required to build on previous innovations to drive the next stage of the ServiceNow platform roadmap.

The following abilities are crucial imperatives for this role:

• Demonstrate thought leadership in supporting the CTO develop their strategy and be the driving force in developing a flexible and comprehensive ServiceNow architecture governance (covering business, application, data and technology) to adapt to changing customer needs that support the business' strategy.

• Define and present the CTO Enterprise Architecture in various senior business and technology forums, ensuring the strategy and technology roadmaps are visible both internally within CTO and externally to other functions within the Group.

• Map strategic direction against the current state and work with the CTO technology leadership team to develop plans to modernise the estate against the vision, developing architecture governance policies, standards, procedures and methods necessary to implement the strategy within the Group Architecture framework.

• This role will define and maintain a holistic approach for ServiceNow across our enterprise strategy and deliver strategic insight, innovative and creative thinking that helps drive business growth.

Responsibilities

As the Senior Principal Architect for ServiceNow, you will have the following key responsibilities to fulfil the role purpose above:

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Oversee how ServiceNow connects with other enterprise software and data sources.

• Design scalable, secure end-to-end solutions across multiple ServiceNow modules (ITSM, ITOM, CSM, HRSD).

• Architect complex enterprise integrations using REST/SOAP APIs, MID Servers, and IntegrationHub.

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• ServiceNow Certification Master Architect (CMA) preferred; or alternatively Certified Technical Architect, Certified System Administrator & Certified Application Developer

• TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework)

• ITIL v4 Master/Expert level

• Agile/Scrum or Prince2 certifications

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect

• Experience in both local and global teams, particularly dealing with Japanese stakeholders

• Experience in digital and broader architectural transformation, including AI transformation, applying solutions from experience in decomposing monolithic solutions and methods to manage technical legacy.

• Ability to understand, articulate and translate customer journeys into technical design, leveraging API and micro-service architecture techniques.

• Experience of Agile principles and processes and leading teams in agile at-scale methods using DevOps tools and processes.

• Understanding of and practical experience working with DevOps toolsets and frameworks.

• Understand channel applications and integration components, common digital and traditional integration technologies

• Identify key system architecture components, propose and help teams build solutions that unblock deployments.

We are committed to providing equal opportunities throughout employment including in the recruitment, training and development of employees. We prohibit discrimination in the workplace whether on grounds of gender, marital or domestic partnership status, pregnancy, carer's responsibilities, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, race, color, national or ethnic origins, religious belief, disability or age.

*Applying for this role does not amount to a job offer or create an obligation on Nomura to provide a job offer. The expression "Nomura" refers to Nomura Services India Private Limited together with its affiliates.

*The benefits are subject to change and will be in accordance with Company's policies as may be applicable from time to time).