Principal Engineer AWS AI Knowledge Management VP

RBS; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 5,500,000; Full time

Job summary

RBS in India seeks a Principal Engineer at VP level to lead design and engineering with a customer-centric focus on performance, security and scalability. You will define architectures, roadmaps and governance for platform components while mentoring engineers and shaping engineering best practices.

You will collaborate with feature teams to deliver high-quality software quickly, and you will drive end-to-end automation and robust solutions across bank platforms and services using Java and

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering experience.
• Experience with AWS and AI solutions.
• Experience in Java and microservices.
• Strong DevOps and Agile background.
• Team and people management experience.

Responsibilities

• Define and develop architecture models and roadmaps for applications and software components.
• Collaborate with feature teams to deliver high-quality software rapidly.
• Determine design and delivery approaches for the platform throughout its life.
• Engineer complex software, scripts and tools to enable delivery of bank platforms and services.

Skills

Software architecture

DevOps

Agile

Leadership

Java

Tools

AWS

CI/CD

Job description

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 be playing a major role in the 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 hiring 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 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.

You’ll also be:

• 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
• Working with the various feature teams to produce software rapidly and of high quality which adds value to the business
• Determining the design and delivery approach for all of the platform’s software throughout its life
• 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

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. We’d also like to see significant and demonstrable experience of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance.

You’ll also need:

• Experience with AWS and AI solutions, preferably chatbots and knowledge management with 12+ years of experience
• Delivery experience along with team and people management is a must have
• Background in software development on Java and microservices stack

Hours

45

Job Posting Closing Date:

21/10/2026