Principal Engineer, VP

  • Job Reference: R-00252251
  • Date Posted: 10 March 2025
  • Employer: NatWest Group
  • Website: https://jobs.natwestgroup.com/
  • Location: Bangalore
  • Salary: On Application
  • Sector: Engineering, I.T. & Communications
  • Job Type: Full Time

Job Description

Join us as a Principal Engineer

  • This is a challenging role that will see you design and engineer software with the customer or user experience as the primary objective
  • You’ll be playing a major role in the engineering centre of excellence, collaborating to improve the bank’s overall software engineering capability
  • You’ll gain valuable stakeholder exposure as you build and leverage relationships, as well as the opportunity to hone your technical talents
  • We're offering this role at vice president level

What you'll do

As a Principal Engineer, you’ll be creating great customer outcomes via engineering and innovative solutions to existing and new challenges, and technology designs which are innovative, customer centric, high performance, secure and robust. You’ll be defining, creating and providing oversight and governance of engineering and design solutions with a focus on end-to-end automation, simplification, resilience, security, performance, scalability and reusability. 

You’ll also be:

  • Defining and developing architecture models and roadmaps of application and software components to meet business and technical requirements, driving common usability across products and domains
  • Working with the various feature teams to produce software rapidly and of high quality which adds value to the business
  • Determining the design and delivery approach for all of the platform’s software throughout its life
  • Working within a platform or feature team along with software engineers to design and engineer complex software, scripts and tools to enable the delivery of bank platforms, applications and services, acting as a point of contact for solution design considerations

The skills you'll need

You’ll come with significant experience in software engineering, software or database design and architecture, as well as experience of developing software within a DevOps and Agile framework. Development teams to use Gen AI tooling to increase productivity to develop, test, maintain and manage applications. 

To manage the containerized IDE platform. The team's senior engineer role will lead the Developers Utilities Feature team which operates a technology stack that is broad, complex and undergoing a period of significant change.

You’ll also need:

  • A strong development experience in at least one mainstream programming language like Java or Python or Node or .Net
  • Significant and demonstrable experience of DevOps with SCM and CI/CD tool chain like Gitlab or Ansible
  • A background in designing or implementing APIs
  • Experience in Cloud Computing with IaaS experience via Terraform or CloudFormation
  • Experience on working with Containerised Images within Kubernetes
  • Basic understanding on TLS handshake and networking
  • Experience on logging and monitoring tools and basic principles of observability