Principal Engineer, Director

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

Job summary

NatWest Group in Chennai is seeking a Principal Engineer at director level to lead software development best practices and architecture across platforms, applications and services for the bank.

The role emphasizes strategic technical leadership, scalable designs, and collaboration with senior stakeholders to deliver high-impact Data and AI initiatives, while mentoring engineering teams across front-end, back-end and APIs.

Qualifications

• 18+ years of experience in software engineering and architecture.
• Experience leading design/delivery of scalable, secure solutions.
• Expertise with microservices, cloud platforms and API design.

Responsibilities

• Drive development software and tools to meet project and departmental objectives.
• Lead planning, development and deployment of high-performance, robust systems for the bank.
• Manage one or more software engineering teams and ensure code quality.
• Define technical strategy, advise on product roadmaps and migration plans.
• Design reusable libraries and APIs used across the bank.
• Write unit and integration tests in automated environments.

Skills

Full stack engineering

Microservices

AWS cloud services

DevSecOps

CI/CD

Observability

Platform engineering

APIs

Job description

Join us as a Principal Engineer, Director

• This is an exciting and challenging role that will see you leading best practice for application development and software development life cycles within the bank
• With your software development background, you’ll be delivering software components to enable the delivery of platforms, applications and services for the bank
• You’ll be recognised as a leader in software engineering, as you lead the wider participation in internal and industry wide events, conferences and other activities
• We’re offering this role at director level

What you’ll do

As a Principal Engineer, you’ll be driving development software and tools to accomplish project and departmental objectives by converting functional and non-functional requirements into suitable designs. You’ll play a leading role in planning, developing and deploying high performance robust and resilient systems for the bank, while leading engagements with senior stakeholders to explore and suggest appropriate technical solutions to achieve the required product features.

You’ll have the opportunity to develop your leadership skills as you manage the technical delivery of one or more software engineering teams, overseeing the quality of their work and making sure it meets the required technical standards.

You’ll also be:

• Overseeing the definition of the technical strategy and advising on product roadmaps and migration plans to achieve strategic goals
• Making sure that the bank’s systems follow excellent architectural and engineering principles, and are fit for purpose
• Monitoring the technical progress against plans while safeguarding functionality, scalability and performance, and providing progress updates to stakeholders
• Designing and developing reusable libraries and APIs for use across the bank
• Writing unit and integration tests within automated test environments to ensure code quality

The skills you’ll need

You’ll come with a background in software engineering, software or database design and architecture, as well as significant experience developing software within an SOA or microservices paradigm.You'll need at least eighteen years of experience in full stack engineering, leading the design and delivery of scalable, resilient, and secure solutions across front-end, backend, APIs, and cloud platforms. You'll bring deep expertise in modern software engineering, including full stack development, microservices, event-driven architectures, AWS cloud services, DevSecOps, CI/CD, observability, and platform engineering to build enterprise-scale Data and AI products.

You’ll need experience in driving technical strategy, architecture, innovation, automation, code quality, and performance optimisation whilst mentoring engineering teams and collaborating closely with Product, Data Science, Architecture, and business stakeholders to deliver high-impact Data and AI initiatives.

You’ll also need:

• A strong background in leading software development teams, introducing and executing technical strategies
• Knowledge of using industry recognised frameworks and development tooling
• Experience of test-driven development and using automated test frameworks, mocking and stubbing and unit testing tools
• A background in designing or implementing APIs
• Experience of supporting, modifying and maintaining systems and code developed by teams other than your own
• The ability to rapidly and effectively understand and translate product and business requirements into technical solutions