Data Engineer, AVP

NatWest Group; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

NatWest Group in Bengaluru seeks an experienced Data Engineer at AVP level to build data-driven, secure customer experiences and scalable pipelines. You will own end-to-end data product delivery, driving insights and value for the business.

You will work on AWS with lakehouse architecture, PySpark, Kafka, and CDC, collaborating with stakeholders to deliver reliable data solutions and cost-conscious, high-quality data products.

Qualifications

• At least eight years of ETL and data engineering experience.
• Experience building data pipelines and data platforms in cloud environments.
• Strong knowledge of data governance, security, and cost management.

Responsibilities

• Develop data structures and metrics for product development and insights.
• Design and implement scalable data pipelines and automation.
• Lead end-to-end data product delivery on AWS with lakehouse architecture.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business needs into reusable data solutions.
• Drive data quality, testing, cleansing and monitoring across platforms.

Skills

ETL design

Data pipelines

Data modelling

Data warehousing

Data quality testing

Analytical thinking

Strong communication

Tools

PySpark

SQL

MongoDB

Kafka

AWS

CI/CD

Git

Lakehouse architecture

Data governance

Job description

Join us as a Data Engineer

• We’re looking for someone to build effortless, digital first customer experiences to help simplify our organisation and keep our data safe and secure
• Day‑to‑day, you’ll develop innovative, data‑driven solutions through data pipelines, modelling and ETL design while inspiring to be commercially successful through insights
• If you’re ready for a new challenge, and want to bring a competitive edge to your career profile by delivering streaming data ingestions, this could be the role for you
• We're offering this role at associate vice president level

What you’ll do

Your daily responsibilities will include you developing a comprehensive knowledge of our data structures and metrics, advocating for change when needed for product development. You’ll also provide transformation solutions and carry out complex data extractions.

We’ll expect you to develop a clear understanding of data platform cost levels to build cost‑effective and strategic solutions. You’ll also source new data by using the most appropriate tooling before integrating it into the overall solution to deliver it to our customers.

You’ll also be responsible for:

• Driving customer value by understanding complex business problems and requirements to correctly apply the most appropriate and reusable tools to build data solutions
• Participating in the data engineering community to deliver opportunities to support our strategic direction
• Carrying out complex data engineering tasks to build a scalable data architecture and the transformation of data to make it usable to analysts and data scientists
• Building advanced automation of data engineering pipelines through the removal of manual stages
• Leading on the planning and design of complex products and providing guidance to colleagues and the wider team when required

The skills you’ll need

To be successful in this role, you’ll have an understanding of data usage and dependencies with wider teams and the end customer. You’ll also have experience of extracting value and features from large scale data.

We’ll expect you to have at least eight years experience of ETL technical design, data quality testing, cleansing and monitoring, data sourcing, exploration and analysis, and data warehousing and data modelling capabilities.

You’ll also need:

• To build scalable data pipelines using PySpark, SQL, MongoDB and Kafka, delivering high‑quality data products and CDC solutions across cloud‑based data platforms
• To own end‑to‑end data product delivery on AWS, applying lakehouse architecture, data governance, security controls and operational excellence to meet business needs
• To drive a configuration‑first engineering approach, leveraging low‑code frameworks, reusable components, automation and CI/CD best practices to accelerate deliver
• Experience of using programming languages alongside knowledge of data and software engineering fundamentals
• Good knowledge of modern code development practices
• Strong communication skills with the ability to proactively engage with a wide range of stakeholders