IT: Infrastructure
【IT】Technical Business Analyst - Core Infrastructure Strategy
Associate / Senior Associate
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職務内容
Job Description
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Job/Group Overview：
Nomura is a global financial services group with an integrated global network spanning over 30 countries. Japan IT (Information Technology) is a diverse environment with employees of over 25 nationalities, who work on technical support, application development and implementation of system changes for Japan Retail Wealth Management Business and Global Wholesale (Global Markets and Investment Banking). Nomura provides competitive employee benefits, training and upskilling opportunities, and is committed to promoting diversity, equity and inclusion, employee health and well-being.
The Group Chief Technology Office (CTO) is responsible for the firm-wide IT Infrastructure covering Engineering, Administration & Support functions. Group Infrastructure Services (GIS) consists of multiple functional areas spanning Workspace, Core infrastructure, Platform Delivery & Infra Service Management. The technology portfolio a wide array of IT Infra platforms spanning Cloud, Compute, Storage, Networks, Databases, Backups, Datacentres, Web, Middleware, Messaging, Collaboration, Voice, Video, End user devices, Mobile, Virtualization etc.
Nomura is looking for a Technical Business Analyst for the Core Infra Strategy workstream.
In this role, you will be part of the Core Infrastructure strategy team responsible for shaping, evidencing, and articulating investment and transformation decisions across the full technology estate. You will turn complex infrastructure data into the analysis, models, and executive-ready business cases that underpin multi-million-pound strategy, migration, and modernisation decisions. You will collaborate across multiple cross-functional workstreams. |
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Responsibilities：
・Business case formulation ー
- Build robust, defensible business cases for infrastructure strategy initiatives (cloud migration, data-centre consolidation, capacity optimisation, platform modernisation), including cost/benefit modelling, sensitivity analysis, and a clear assumption log behind every headline number.
- With Cost effectiveness and ROI are key considerations, translate business needs into detailed functional and technical specifications factoring in available infra platforms, tools & tech stack within the firm.
- Perform gap analysis between current and desired states
- Create comprehensive documentation including business requirements documents (BRDs), functional requirements documents (FRDs), and user stories
・Data analysis & modelling ー Analyse infrastructure data across compute, network, storage, and database estates -utilisation, capacity, cost, and inventory - to quantify opportunities and track delivery against targets.
・Requirements & disposition mapping ー Elicit, document, and structure requirements across infrastructure and application teams; maintain traceability from analysis through to decision and action.
・Executive reporting ー Produce concise, visually compelling materials for senior stakeholders (CCO / COO / GCIO level): decision papers, RAG status narratives, and strategy decks that translate technical detail into a crisp, defensible story.
・Stakeholder coordination ー Act as the analytical bridge between infrastructure engineering, application owners, finance, risk/TPRM, and programme leadership; surface dependencies, chase ownership, and keep figures reconciled across sources.
・Governance ー Support change-control, milestone tracking, and reconciliation of bottom-up vs top-down figures so reporting withstands senior scrutiny
・Cross-Workstream collaboration ー Collaborate & partner across functions in the IT infrastructure & IT business Units to define /design technical solutions focussing on the based on the most optimal path to solution delivery |
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登録資格
Requirements
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| Requirements： |
| Essential Skills & Experience |
- 5 - 8 years in a Technical BA / analyst role, ideally within infrastructure, cloud, or platform environments.
- Demonstrable experience formulating business cases for technology investment or transformation - cost modelling, benefits quantification, and options analysis.
- Broad working knowledge across core infrastructure domains: on-premise compute and virtualisation, public cloud (AWS), networking, data centres, storage, web, middleware and database platforms - enough to engage credibly with engineering teams and interrogate their data.
- Advanced Excel - able to build and maintain complex models from disparate source data
- PowerPoint - able to produce executive-grade decks that are concise, visually clear, and structured for a senior audience.
- Power BI / Grafana - building dashboards and reporting views over infrastructure and cost data.
- Generative AI - practical use of Gen AI tools to accelerate analysis, structure strategy options, draft and iterate on materials, and synthesise complex inputs.
- Excellent written communication - able to hold a consistent narrative and tighten wording iteratively across a document
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| Desirable |
- Exposure to public cloud migration (AWS/Azure) and SaaS transition strategies.
- Financial-services / regulated-environment experience
- Experience supporting data-centre exit, consolidation, or hardware-refresh programmes.
- SQL or a scripting language (Python / PowerShell) for data manipulation.
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| Behaviours & Competencies |
- Analytically rigorous - instinctively reconciles figures and challenges assumptions before they reach a slide.
- Clear communicator - distils complexity into simple, accurate narratives.
- Self-starter - comfortable operating with ambiguity and chasing clarity across a federated stakeholder model.
- Detail-oriented without losing the strategic thread
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勤務地
Location
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豊洲
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