Project Delivery Manager, Atlassian

Corporate Title: Associate

Department: Investment Technology

 

The pay range for this position at commencement of employment is expected to be between $120,000 and $180,000 year * (see below footnote for additional compensation and benefits information).

 

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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Division Overview: NAM International

The international business brings together a legacy of investing in public and private markets on a global scale. Through active management, we deliver differentiated and innovative solutions across equities, fixed income, multi-asset, and private credit supported by a team of disciplined and tenured investment professionals. Building upon Nomura’s century long heritage, our teams are responsible stewards of clients’ capital. We approach everything we do with accountability, curiosity, and integrity to help clients across wealth and institutional channels navigate an ever-changing market, capture opportunities around the world, and reach long-term investment goals.

 

Role Description:

Are you passionate about using and growing your agile and solution delivery experience to bring business value and digitization strategies to life? The Nomura Asset Management technology team has an opportunity for you to bring your passion and make an immediate impact delivering technology and transformative solutions for our global asset management business.

We’re going through significant and exciting change, and this is an opportunity to work in a dynamic environment to drive Transformation and change in Nomura Asset Management.  You will work within an agile team including Product owners, Architects, Data Managers, Technical Leads, Software Engineers, and Business Analysts with a key focus to drive innovation and continuously deliver business outcomes.

As part of the Delivery team, your key responsibilities will span:

Project Planning, Delivery Management & Team Events

• Organize comprehensive plans within the Atlassian tooling and proactively drive delivery to achieve objectives
• Apply strong business and technical knowledge to drive decision-making and guide project execution
• Monitor progress to ensure the team meets its quarterly delivery commitments
• Maintain clear and consistent communication with stakeholders, including Leadership across technology, program management, and business, ensuring visibility of project status
• Confirm that epic and story outcomes align with the projects defined success criteria
• Track and collaborate on Risks, Assumptions, Issues, and Dependencies (RAID) to mitigate potential delivery challenges
• Support the management of team dependencies by facilitating scrum of scrums and other collaborative events

 

Skills, experience, qualifications and knowledge required:

• 5+ years of experience within Project Manager, Delivery Manager, SCRUM Master, or equivalent roles
• Leveraging Agile frameworks across SCRUM and Kanban to suit team requirements
• Experience leading daily standups, sprint planning, retrospectives, and other team events
• Experience working with DevOps teams and using Jira & Confluence to keep your team efficient & organized
• Experience producing team metrics including velocity, capacity management, burn down, bottleneck identification, story point forecasting
• Understanding of Engineer tooling, development environments, and ways of working
• Ability to learn a business area quickly and understand their overall technology portfolio
• Preferred qualifications & skillsets: Financial services understanding including securities and mutual funds

 

 

Nomura Competencies

 

Explore Insights & Vision

• Identify the underlying causes of problems faced by you or your team and define a clear vision and direction for the future.

Making Strategic Decisions

• Evaluate all the options for resolving the problems an