Principal Engineer, Full Stack, VP

Jobtailor; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

NatWest Group in India invites applications for a Principal Engineer to design and engineer software with customer experience as the primary objective. This challenging role sits at VP level and offers opportunity to shape the engineering centre of excellence and collaborate with stakeholders to raise software engineering capability.

You will define architectures, drive end-to-end automation, and work with platform or feature teams to deliver scalable, secure solutions.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in software engineering, architecture, and DevOps within Agile environments.
• Experience implementing scalability, automation and performance best practices.
• Strong design and governance of engineering solutions with end-to-end automation.
• Ability to define architecture models and roadmaps for services and platforms.

Responsibilities

• Define architecture models and roadmaps to meet requirements and usability across domains.
• Collaborate with feature teams to deliver high-quality software rapidly.
• Determine design and delivery approach across the platform lifecycle.
• Work with platform engineers to design complex software and tools for bank platforms.

Skills

Java

Microservices

Spring Boot

APIs

Linux

Docker

Kubernetes

Helm

GCP

Terraform

DevOps

CI/CD

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 offering 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:

• Expertise of at least 12 years in Java, Microservices, Spring Boot, APIs, Linux and ability to understand the complex systems
• Solid experience with Oracle, PostgreSQL and database design
• Proven track record of DevOps, CI/CD pipelines and automation demonstrating improved team efficiency
• Hands‑on with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm
• Strong experience with GCP (GKE, GCE, GCS) or any other cloud service provider
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)