Principal Cloud Engineer, AWS & .NET, VP

NatWest Group; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 5,000,000; Full time

Job summary

NatWest Group is seeking a Principal Engineer to design and engineer software with customer experience as the primary objective. The role emphasizes architecture, design and engineering excellence within the bank’s software engineering capability, offering exposure to stakeholders and leadership opportunities.

You will contribute to creating scalable, secure and high-performance solutions, collaborating with architects to validate designs in wider contexts and to automate build, test and

Qualifications

• Extensive software engineering, design, and architecture experience in DevOps/Agile.
• Expert understanding of market trends, technologies, and tools; scalable automation and performance.
• 12+ years in software engineering with AWS cloud, cloud-native architecture, and large-scale cloud transformations.

Responsibilities

• Define and govern end-to-end automation, resilience, security, and performance of solutions.
• Work with platform teams to design and engineer software for bank platforms, apps, and services.
• Develop architecture models and roadmaps to ensure usability across products.
• Code, test, and deploy using Agile and DevOps practices.

Skills

AWS cloud technologies

Cloud-native architecture

DevOps & Agile

C# / .NET

CI/CD automation

Software architecture

Leadership in engineering

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

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:

• 12+ years of software engineering experience, with extensive expertise in AWS cloud technologies, cloud-native architecture, and leading enterprise-scale cloud transformation initiatives
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS services including EKS, RDS, Aurora, Redshift, Glue, Athena, S3, DynamoDB, SageMaker, and Bedrock, alongside expertise in Terraform for Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Proven experience developing and deploying .NET/.NET Core and C# applications, containerized microservices, Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD automation within modern cloud environments
• Experience building scalable and resilient cloud and data platforms, enabling AI/ML capabilities, driving DevOps best practices, and establishing engineering standards and operational excellence