Principal Engineer - Artificial Intelligence

NAB; Gurugram District; Hybrid; INR 2,500,000 - 3,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working arrangements

Competitive financial benefits

Career development programs

Job summary

A global banking institution is seeking a technical leader in Gurugram, India, to oversee multiple engineering scrum teams. You will engage in hands-on development, mentor staff, and champion best practices across engineering and AI. Responsibilities include defining technical roadmaps, ensuring design standards, and advocating for a culture of engineering excellence. The role offers flexibility and aims to create a positive impact on customers and communities through innovation.

Qualifications

• Experience in leadership of scrum teams across various domains.
• Hands-on development and ability to engage in complex solutions.
• Technical guidance in best practices for AI and engineering.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering scrum teams to enhance service features.
• Engage hands-on in development efforts when necessary.
• Drive adoption of AI and engineering best practices.

Skills

Cloud technologies

EKS and AKS operator solutions

DevSecOps

Hands-on coding

Excellent communication

Mentoring technical staff

Full application stack knowledge

Infrastructure as code

Job description

• Responsible for the leadership of multiple engineering scrum teams rotating through domains to plan, deliver and support service features that deliver customer value and/or mature service capability. Responsible for improving performance of teams .
• Responsible for technical direction and identifying innovation solutions. To solve complex and/or large problem, translate vague problems into actionable items.
• Responsible for mentorship and coaching in industry best practices across engineering, agile and AI usage for the entire SDLC.
• Define the detailed technical roadmap in conjunction with the, Engineering Manager, Domain architect, Security architect, Tech and BA Leads .
• Triage new demand and ensures sufficient design guidance exists at high level for hand-off to the scrum tech lead for detailed design.
• Set the standard for design and Agile process and distribute development workload across multiple teams .
• Engage in hands‑on development to balance workload or address significant complexity through technical spike: build, system-test including non-functional.
• Take part and make decisions on technical solutions .
• Present technical problems and/or solutions in business terms, pitch to the executives as well as various senior stakeholders within the company as required.

Essential Capabilities

• Experience with major cloud technologies (mainly on Azure and AWS)
• Hands on experience and design of EKS and AKS operator solutions supporting multiple asset teams at enterprise scale
• Hands on experience with DevSecOps
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to deal with stakeholders (product owners, engineers executives and other senior stakeholders)
• Experience as a technical lead providing mentorship to other technical staff
• Interest and experience with the entire application stack; from network, security, through platform OS to application code
• Hands on coding experience with infrastructure as code, automation and application

Key Accountabilities

• Execute and drive hands‑on technical guidance to uplift existing engineering squads to achieve industry best‑practice standards
• Champion engineering excellence with automation‑first mindset, should interpret code analytics data and corresponding cultural transformation.
• Work with delivery teams to achieve success through the adoption of AI, engineering best practice processes and tooling.
• Shape, design, develop, support and implement Software Delivery in alignment with the roadmap.
• Maintain an understanding of ‘Best practice’ initiatives within own specialist area, and IT in general by continually seeking out relevant industry and technical knowledge. Improve on professional skills by completing necessary development activities.
• Work as an effective team member, supporting peers and recognising the contributions of others to ensure the achievement of team goals.
• Demonstrate and provide professional and ethical behaviour in your actions by ensuring compliance with external legislation, bank standards and internal operating policies and procedures relevant to the position.
• Ensure all personal training records are maintained and kept up to date.
• Take reasonable care for own health & safety, as well as that of others.
• Coaching and mentoring of team to uplift skills and knowledge to perform their role in a professional and ethical manner.
• Conform with all internal operating procedures relevant to the position.
• Awareness and contribution to NAB engineering frameworks like NAB‑X, NAB‑CEL, NABserv, NEF / NEF 2.0 etc.and deliver hands‑on workshops, bootcamps, and enablement sessions to uplift engineering maturity.

More focus on you

We’re committed to delivering a positive experience for our colleagues and a workplace you can be proud of. We support our colleagues to balance their careers and personal life through flexible working arrangements such as hybrid working and job sharing and competitive financial and lifestyle benefits. We invest in our colleagues through world class development programs (Distinctive Leadership and Career Qualified in Banking), and empower you to learn, grow and pursue exciting career opportunities

Join NAB India

This is your chance to join NAB India and along with your experience and expertise to help shape an innovation driven organisation that focuses on making a positive impact in the lives of its customers, colleagues and communities