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

NatWest Group; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

NatWest Group is seeking a Principal Engineer in India to lead software engineering initiatives with a customer-centric focus. The role operates within the engineering centre of excellence, collaborating across teams to elevate the bank’s software capabilities and overall engineering maturity.

As a VP-level professional, you will shape architecture roadmaps, govern design solutions, and drive end-to-end automation, security, and performance across platforms.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in software engineering and architecture.
• Experience with DevOps and Agile frameworks.
• Strong focus on scalability, automation, virtualization, availability and performance.

Responsibilities

• Define, create and provide governance of engineering and design solutions with focus on end-to-end automation, resilience, security, performance, scalability and reusability.
• Define and develop architecture models and roadmaps of application and software components to meet business and technical requirements, driving common usability across products and domains.
• Work with feature teams to produce software rapidly and of high quality which adds value to the business.
• Determine the design and delivery approach for all of the platform’s software throughout its life.
• Work 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.

Skills

Java

Microservices

AWS

Automation

DevOps

Architecture

Leadership

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