Principal Engineer, Java (Risk Domain), VP

NatWest Group; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

NatWest Group is seeking a Principal Engineer in Bengaluru to design and engineer software with the customer experience as a primary objective. You will contribute to architecture, engineering excellence, and the bank's software capability while collaborating with stakeholders to deliver high-quality solutions.

The role operates at vice president level, focusing on end-to-end automation, scalable architectures, and secure, robust software.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of hands-on experience in Java development and architecture.
• Experience leading software engineering teams in a matrix environment.
• Strong background in building scalable, secure, and performant systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and engineer software with customer-centric focus and high performance.
• Collaborate with architects to validate and leverage designs across platforms.
• Drive end-to-end automation for build, test and deployment pipelines.
• Define architecture models and roadmaps to meet business and technical needs.
• Lead Agile delivery and DevOps practices within platform or feature teams.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Microservices

DevOps

Agile methodologies

Leadership

CI/CD

GKE

API design

Architecture leadership

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

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 will actively contribute to our architecture, design and engineering centre of excellence, collaborating to improve the bank's overall software engineering capability
• You will 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 will 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 will be working with software engineers in the production and prototyping of innovative ideas, engaging with domain and enterprise architects to validate and leverage these in wider contexts, by incorporating the relevant architectures. We will also look to you to design and develop software with a focus on the automation of build, test and deployment activities, while developing the discipline of software engineering across the business.

You will also 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
• 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
• 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
• Designing, producing, testing and implementing the working code, along with applying Agile methods to the development of software with the use of DevOps techniques

The skills you'll need

You will 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.

Along with an expert understanding of the latest market trends, technologies and tools, you will bring significant and demonstrable experience of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance.

You will also need:

• A strong background in leading software development teams in a matrix structure, introducing and executing technical strategies
• At least 12 years of hands-on experience in Java development, including Core Java, Spring Boot, and Microservices
• Strong experience in Risk domain applications, preferably within investment banking or financial services environments
• Hands-on experience in developing and deploying applications on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
• Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines, automation, and DevOps practices
• Proven experience in API design, development, and integration, with a strong focus on scalability, performance, and reliability
• Experience leading software engineering teams in a matrix environment, driving technical strategy and Agile delivery