Engineering Lead — Premier Banking Platforms

NatWest Group; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

NatWest Group is seeking an Engineering Lead in Premier Banking to guide software engineering across platforms, ensuring high performance and resilience. You will lead one or more software teams, drive technical decisions with senior stakeholders and shape architectural standards for scalable systems.

You will champion CI/CD practices, cloud migration, and reusable components while mentoring engineers to deliver robust solutions in a banking environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in software engineering and architecture within SOA or microservices.
• Proven track record of leading teams and delivering complex platforms.
• Strong experience with CI/CD and deployment practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead one or more software engineering teams to deliver robust platforms.
• Define technical strategy, roadmaps and migration plans.
• Ensure architectural principles, scalability and performance.
• Coordinate with senior stakeholders on technical solutions.

Skills

Software engineering

Leadership

Team leadership

CI/CD

Cloud migration

Observability

Microservices

Stakeholder management

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

NatWest Group is seeking an Engineering Lead in Premier Banking to guide software engineering across platforms, ensuring high performance and resilience. You will lead one or more software teams, drive technical decisions with senior stakeholders and shape architectural standards for scalable systems.

You will champion CI/CD practices, cloud migration, and reusable components while mentoring engineers to deliver robust solutions in a banking environment.