Observability Lead Engineer

A Global Financial firm is seeking an Observability Lead Engineer to lead the Tokyo-based TOM (Telemetry, Observability & Monitoring) Engineering team within Group Platform Services & Engineering. This role is responsible for the design, engineering, integration, and strategic direction of the Observability platform across Asia and Retail operations. 

The ideal candidate will come from a development background to build the tools and platform but will also have strong, enthusiastic communication skills, as a technical evangelist, to influence stakeholders across the organization and drive buy-in & adoption  
Working within a newly formed global team of engineers and SREs, the successful candidate will help drive the evolution toward AI Ops capabilities, including automated anomaly detection, root cause analysis, and ML-driven operational insights. 
The role focuses on Observability technologies including Grafana, Loki, Mimir, Tempo, OpenTelemetry, and Linux-based platforms, while collaborating closely with global engineering teams to deliver scalable enterprise-wide monitoring solutions.  

Responsibilities: 
- Lead the team of Japanese Engineers responsible for introducing leading edge observability tools. Part of the global group wide Observability team. 
- Engineer solutions for adoption of best practices in Observability and Monitoring by companies within the Nomura Group 
- Propose, design, and implement additions to evolve observability platform 
- Drive adoption of best practices in Observability across the organization 
- Contribute to Observability standards and procedures 
- Working with the SRE team to optimize the operation model 
- Mentor engineers on best practices, standards and procedures 
- Reporting to Group Head of Observability 

Required Skills: 
- +10 years overall experience including background in application development. (Not infrastructure background).   
- Team lead experience (7+ Years) 
- Java, Python and Scripting Experience (5+ years) 
- Intermediate knowledge of Linux  
- Experience of the Observability principles and the Grafana toolset  
- Agile experience with use of JIRAs and sprints 
- Strong communication － presenting and documentation 
- Experience of driving change in a large organization 
- Demonstrate understanding of large enterprise systems & technologies on which they are built 
- Solid understanding of Production Support processes 
- In-depth understanding of Java and Python 


Why should you apply:
- Unique opportunity for a lead role building the tools of a key component for a large scale IT transformation project across the full enterprise
- Highly visible position locally, regionally, globally working as part of a global team consisting of 20 team members bringing change across the organization
- This will evolve into full AI Ops Capability with automated anomaly detection, automated impact and root cause analysis and machine learning generated resolutions

Company Details: 
Headquartered in Tokyo with offices in Hong Kong, London, and New York, it is Japan's largest securities firm, employing approximately 26,000 staff worldwide and offering a full range of equity, fixed income, foreign exchange, and other investment products and services.

Working Hours: 08:40 – 17:40
Workstyle: By principle, it will be 1 day working in office, 4 days working from home (Depending on nature of the job, it will be decided by department head) 
Holidays: Saturday, Sunday, and National Holidays, Year-end and New Year Holidays, Paid Holidays, Other Special Holidays
Benefits: Social insurance, pension, transportation, etc.
Interview Process: 5 rounds