Principal Engineer - AI (UCX Platform), VP

Natwest Digitalx; Chennai, Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Natwest Digitalx in Chennai is seeking a Principal Engineer at VP level to lead software architecture and engineering initiatives, focusing on customer-centric, high-performance, secure solutions.

You will shape platform roadmaps, drive end-to-end automation, collaborate with domain and enterprise architects, and mentor teams across DevOps and Agile practices.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in software engineering and architecture within DevOps/Agile environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and engineer complex software with a focus on customer outcomes and performance.
• Collaborate with platform and enterprise architects to validate and reuse architectures.
• Develop automation for build, test and deployment processes.

Skills

Python

Java

Generative AI

AWS

RAG

Vector databases

Agent memory tuning

Context management

AI guardrails

Tool-calling

Logging/Monitoring

Tools

DevOps

CI/CD

Automation

Virtualisation

Job description

Job Summary

• This is a challenging role that will see you design and engineer software with the customer or user experience as the primary objective
• Youll actively contribute to our architecture, design and engineering centre of excellence, collaborating to improve the banks overall software engineering capability
• Youll 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 role

What you'll do

As a Principal Engineer, youll 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.

Youll 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. Well 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.

Youll 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

Youll 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, youll bring significant and demonstrable experience of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance.

Youll also need:

• Strong Python skills or Java back-end engineering experience
• Generative and agentic AI using AWS services
• Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and vector databases
• Long-term and short-term agent memory configuration and tuning
• Context management and response-suppression techniques
• AI guardrail implementation and enforcement
• Tool-calling design and implementation
• Agent logging, monitoring and auditability

Hours

45