Principal Engineer, API Management Platform - NatWest Group

eFinancialCareers; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

eFinancialCareers seeks a Principal Engineer for the API Management Platform in the London area. You will shape architecture, design and engineer high-performance, secure solutions centered on customer outcomes.

You will collaborate with architecture, security and product teams to validate and leverage designs. You will drive automation of build, test and deployment, while promoting software engineering discipline across the business and engaging stakeholders to translate requirements into

Qualifications

• Expertise in cloud architecture across AWS/GCP and cloud-native tech.
• Strong understanding of cloud-native technologies incl. Kubernetes and API management.
• Knowledge of Apigee Hybrid is advantageous.
• Experience shaping architecture strategy and high/low-level designs.

Responsibilities

• Define and oversee engineering and design solutions with end-to-end automation, resilience and security.
• Collaborate with platform teams to design and engineer complex software, scripts and tools for bank platforms.
• Develop architecture models and roadmaps meeting business and technical requirements.
• Design, test and implement working code using Agile and DevOps practices.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Stakeholder management

Agile delivery

Cloud security

DevOps

API architecture

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Apigee Hybrid

Job description

Join us as a Principal Engineer, API Management Platform

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 actively contribute to our architecture, design and 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

What you'll do

As a Principal Engineer, API Management Platform, 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 working with software engineers in the production and prototyping of innovative ideas, engaging with domain and enterprise architects to validate and leverage these in wider contexts, by incorporating the relevant architectures. We'll also look to you to design and develop software with a focus on the automation of build, test and deployment activities, while developing the discipline of software engineering across the business.

You'll also 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
• 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
• 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
• Designing, producing, testing and implementing the working code, along with applying Agile methods to the development of software with the use of DevOps techniques

The skills you'll need

To succeed in this role, you'll bring expertise in cloud architecture across AWS and GCP, designing secure, resilient and scalable solutions in complex enterprise environments. You'll have a strong understanding of cloud-native technologies, including Kubernetes platforms (GKE/EKS), container services and API management, with knowledge of Apigee Hybrid being advantageous.

You'll be experienced in shaping architecture strategy, producing high and low-level designs, and ensuring solutions align with enterprise standards, security requirements and business outcomes.

You'll also bring:

• Deep expertise in API architecture and adoption, defining secure, scalable and reusable services for internal and external consumers
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence technical direction and communicate architecture decisions at all levels
• Experience working in Agile delivery environments, collaborating across engineering, architecture, security and product teams
• Strong knowledge of cloud security, DevSecOps and infrastructure automation, including Terraform, CI/CD and modern identity and access management practices
• An understanding of emerging cloud-native AI capabilities, such as Vertex AI, would be beneficial