Lead Software Engineer, VP - Java, GCP & SQL - 10-16 Years

Royal Bank of Scotland; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Royal Bank of Scotland in Gurugram is seeking a Principal Engineer to design and engineer software with a customer-centric focus. You will contribute to architecture and engineering centre of excellence, collaborating to raise the bank’s software engineering capability.

You’ll lead software development teams, drive end-to-end automation, and translate product requirements into scalable technical solutions using Agile and DevOps practices.

Qualifications

• Over 10 years of experience in Java with strong proficiency in SQL, GCP and Spring.
• Proven leadership of software development teams in a matrix structure.
• Extensive experience with test-driven development and automated testing frameworks.
• Experience designing or implementing APIs.
• Ability to translate product and business requirements into technical solutions.
• Familiar with code repositories, bug tracking tools and wikis.

Responsibilities

• Define and govern end-to-end automation and architecture for bank platforms, applications and services.
• Lead platform/feature teams to design and engineer complex software, scripts and tools.
• Develop architecture models and roadmaps to meet business and technical needs.
• Design, test and implement code with Agile and DevOps practices.

Skills

Java

SQL

GCP

Spring

API design

DevOps

Agile methodologies

Leadership

Architecture

Tools

Git

Bug tracking

Wikis

Code repositories

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 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

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 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

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.

Along with an expert understanding of the latest market trends, technologies and tools, you'll bring significant and demonstrable experience of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance.

You'll also need:

• At least 10 years of experience in Java, with strong proficiency in SQL, GCP, and Spring
• A strong background in leading software development teams in a matrix structure, introducing and executing technical strategies
• Significant and demonstrable experience of test-driven development and using automated test frameworks, mocking and stubbing and unit testing tools
• A background in designing or implementing APIs
• The ability to rapidly and effectively understand and translate product and business requirements into technical solutions
• A background of working with code repositories, bug tracking tools and wikis

Hours 45

Job Posting Closing Date: 19/09/2026