Principal Engineer, Java And Spring Boot, VP

NatWest Group; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 6,000,000 - 9,000,000; Full time

Job summary

NatWest Group is seeking a Principal Engineer at Bengaluru to design and engineer software with the customer experience as the primary objective. You will shape the engineering centre of excellence and collaborate to enhance the bank's software engineering capabilities, while gaining significant stakeholder exposure.

The role is at vice president level and requires deep technical leadership across platforms, APIs, and scalable architectures in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Twelve+ years of software engineering experience in DevOps and Agile environments.
• Strong expertise in software design and architecture with scalable, secure systems.
• Proven track record leading software development teams and delivering high-quality solutions.

Responsibilities

• Define and govern end-to-end architecture and design solutions focused on performance, security, and scalability.
• Collaborate with feature teams to deliver rapid, high-quality software that adds business value.
• Lead platform and product delivery strategies, guiding solution design considerations across the bank's platforms.
• Mentor engineers and drive best practices in testing, automation, and code quality.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Architecture

DevOps

Agile

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Tools

APIs

Job description

Join us as a Principal Engineer, Java And Spring Boot

• 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 at least twelve years of experience in 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:

• A strong background in leading software development teams in a matrix structure, introducing and executing technical strategies
• Significant and demonstrable experience of test-driven development and using automated test frameworks, mocking and stubbing and unit testing tools
• A background in designing or implementing APIs
• The ability to rapidly and effectively understand and translate product and business requirements into technical solutions
• A background of working with code repositories, bug tracking tools and wikis