Principal Engineer, Platform & Architecture

NatWest Group

Greater London

On-site

GBP 120,000 - 180,000

Full time

5 days ago
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Job summary

NatWest Group is seeking a Principal Engineer to design and engineer software with customer experience as the primary objective. You will contribute to our architecture and engineering centre of excellence, collaborating to raise the bank’s software engineering capability and gain valuable stakeholder exposure.

You’ll lead the production and prototyping of innovative ideas, work with architects to validate and scale designs, and drive automation across build, test and deployment while elevating

Qualifications

  • Proven experience building large-scale enterprise web apps.
  • Deep expertise in Java/Spring Boot microservices and modern front-end stacks.
  • Strong knowledge of databases (SQL, MongoDB) and DevOps practices.

Responsibilities

  • Design and deliver scalable software architectures for customer-centric outcomes.
  • Collaborate with domain and enterprise architects to align with wider roadmaps.
  • Lead end-to-end automation of build, test and deployment processes using DevOps techniques.
  • Guide engineering teams in a matrix structure and drive technical strategy.

Skills

Java
Spring Boot
ReactJS
SQL
MongoDB
DevOps
CI/CD
Test Automation

Tools

Git
Jira
Confluence

Job description

NatWest Group is seeking a Principal Engineer to design and engineer software with customer experience as the primary objective. You will contribute to our architecture and engineering centre of excellence, collaborating to raise the bank’s software engineering capability and gain valuable stakeholder exposure.

You’ll lead the production and prototyping of innovative ideas, work with architects to validate and scale designs, and drive automation across build, test and deployment while elevating

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