Principal Engineer (AWS, AI, Knowledge Management), VP

Natwest Digitalx; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Natwest Digitalx seeks a Principal Engineer (VP level) in Gurugram to design and engineer software with the customer experience as the primary objective. You will lead engineering initiatives within the centre of excellence, collaborating across teams to elevate the bank's software engineering capabilities and stakeholder engagement.

You will influence architecture, governance, and end-to-end automation while shaping scalable, secure, and high-performance solutions.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in software engineering and architecture.
• Experience leading DevOps and Agile teams.
• Proven track record with Java and microservices.

Responsibilities

• Define architecture models and roadmaps for applications.
• Collaborate with feature teams to deliver high-quality software.
• Determine design and delivery approach across platforms.
• Lead solution design considerations for bank platforms and services.

Skills

Software architecture

DevOps

Agile methodologies

Java

Microservices

AWS

Team leadership

AI solutions

Tools

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

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 be playing a major role in the 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 hiring this role at vice president level

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 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.

Youll 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 platforms 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

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

Youll 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